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