Suzy Ismail – #19 AlFattah

			salam ala go, it's nice to see you
again as we continue to discuss
		

			how we can bring the divine
characteristics of the 99 names of
		

			Allah subhanaw taala into our
daily lives so that we can improve
		

			our relationships with our spouses
and with our family. The name that
		

			we're going to discuss today is,
in fact there, which means the
		

			opener
		

			in our daily lives, with our
spouses with our children, there
		

			are many times where we can feel
like we've come to a dead end,
		

			maybe we feel like we've hit a
dead end in our relationship with
		

			our spouses because of financial
difficulties. Maybe we feel we've
		

			hit a dead end, because of
miscommunication. Maybe we feel
		

			we've hit a dead end because of
difficulties with our parents or
		

			with our in laws. Maybe we feel
with our children, we're
		

			struggling and we've hit a dead
end, because our children are not
		

			following the path we want them
to, or our grown children are
		

			moving further and further away
from us. But in each of those
		

			situations in each of those tests,
recognizing that Allah subhanaw
		

			taala is alpha. The opener is that
hope that we need to be able to
		

			maintain the day to day living,
and the recognition that our diet
		

			and our constant striving, as we
spoke about yesterday, can help us
		

			continue on that journey and get
through those difficult tests.
		

			When we think of the the hope that
Allah subhanaw taala gives us in
		

			the Quran, we look at examples
such as the situation of Prophet
		

			Musa alayhis salam, when he was
just an infant, and his mother was
		

			faced with the most difficult
tests, knowing that she might lose
		

			this infant that he may be killed
by fear. She turned to upset that
		

			she turned to the opener. And
Allah subhanaw taala opened a path
		

			for her in the most unlikeliest of
ways. By telling her to put her
		

			infant child into the river, a
thing that in our normal day to
		

			day lives would seem like another
dead end, but in reality, even
		

			upon being put in the river, so
you know, Musa alayhis salam was
		

			carried to the house of flowers,
exactly where from a human
		

			perspective, we would think that
the journey would end. But that
		

			was his opening. And we know where
the journey began from there. And
		

			if we fast forward and say, you
know, Musa alayhis salam is life,
		

			we see that there came another
point where again, there seemed
		

			like there was no turning to any
place, another dead end. Yeah, as
		

			he stood in front of the sea, with
an army behind him and the sea in
		

			front of him, what looked to
everyone to be a dead end, in that
		

			moment, his hope, his belief, his
anchor, and Allah, he turned to
		

			Allah accept that and asked for an
opening, and the Red Sea parted
		

			and that was his opening. So I
pray that Allah subhanaw taala
		

			gives each and every one of us an
opening through whatever struggle
		

			we may go be going through
whatever tests we may be enduring
		

			in our family lives, with our
spouses with our children. I pray
		

			that that opening comes and even
when it comes in the most unlikely
		

			of places, I pray that we continue
to hold on to that who hold on to
		

			that love for Allah subhanaw taala
and ask him always to guide us and
		

			to provide us with that opening.
There is a common law here and I
		

			look forward to talking to you
again tomorrow as we continue to
		

			discuss the 99 names of Allah
subhanaw taala and how we