Suzy Ismail – #14 AlMusawwir

Assalamu alaikum and Eid Mubarak to you and

your families. It's nice to see you again

as we continue to

explore the 99 names of Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala and to understand how the divine characteristics

of Allah can be incorporated

into our daily lives to improve our relationships

with our spouses and with our children.

The name that we're going to explore today

is Al Misawar.

When we look at the meaning of Al

Misawwar, we see that it is the perfector

of forms or the one who shapes into

perfect form.

When we use the term misalwa in the

vernacular,

we usually refer to it as, in terms

of picture taking

or the one who takes a picture.

Today, as we celebrate Eid with our families,

today as we enjoy,

the bounty that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has

blessed us with, we will find ourselves

taking pictures

of the day, taking pictures with family, with

friends.

In many cases, we'll see a lot of

the youth, you know, on Snapchat

taking duck face photos,

and enjoying their time.

Yet, in the process of taking those pictures

of our lives,

sometimes

it becomes detrimental

when we begin to look online, whether it's

on Facebook or on Snapchat or on Instagram

or on Pinterest, or on Snapchat,

or on Instagram, or on Pinterest, or any

of the multitude of social media that currently

exists to showcase our photos,

oftentimes,

we may look at the lives of others

and view their snap snapshots

as if it really encompasses their day to

day as if it represents

their everyday life.

But the reality is in family life,

the day to day

is not necessarily made up of all the

images that make it to the timeline.

But married life, family life is about all

those pictures that don't make it to the

timeline,

that don't make it to your Snap story,

that don't make it to the Instagram reel.

Family life and marriage life is about those

million

conversations that you've had over breakfast that you've

forgotten.

Family life and married life is about those

ups and those downs that we don't always

take pictures of.

So as you enjoy your time with your

family today, as you enjoy snapping photos and

taking pictures

and admiring

outfits and

really enjoying the beauty that Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala has blessed us with.

Remember also

that those pictures that make it onto our

timeline, that make it onto our stories, that

make it onto our social media,

they represent

those moments in life that we wanted to

capture,

that we wanted to show the world.

But there are a lot of moments behind

the scenes that we don't capture. And there

are a lot of moments behind the scenes

that our families, our friends, the people that

we follow online also don't capture.

But it's those moments and how we interact

with our family and our spouse during those

moments that matter the most.

So I pray that Allah

blesses all of us with more and more

picture perfect moments,

and that Allah

gives us the ease and the patience

and the blessing of family

to get through

those moments that are not always picture perfect.

For listening, and Ayid Mubarak once again to

you and your families.

And I look forward to seeing you again

tomorrow as we discuss the next name of

the 99 names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Assalamu alaikum.