Suzy Ismail – #20 AlAleem
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Salam Alikum, it's nice to see you again as we continue on our
journey of understanding how we can bring in the divine
characteristics of the 99 names of Allah subhanaw taala into our
daily lives to improve our relationships with our family and
with our spouses. The name that we're going to discuss today is
Allah Halleen, which means the All Knowing, when we think of enema
from the religious perspective, we view it as knowledge or the
seeking of knowledge. And we understand that in our faith, it's
incredibly important to pursue the seeking of knowledge. Now, what
does that mean from a family perspective, we live in a world
today, where we tend to encourage our children to seek an education,
particularly our daughters, we will often tell them, you know,
make sure that you get your bachelor's, get your Masters get
your PhD. Yet at the same time, we'll send the message that once
you get all of those degrees, make sure that you are also the best
mother, the best spouse, you are the best person at home who is
cooking, who is cleaning. And so we send Miss mixed messages to our
children. Sometimes, rather than encouraging the pursuit of
education and the pursuit of knowledge to be applied in our
daily lives in the lives of our children, and also to be carried
out into the community, we tend to send this mixed dichotomy of what
one can do with the education when we think of it also in terms of
encouraging our children to pursue knowledge to pursue education, we
will often encourage our children and tell them you know, they can
be a doctor, a doctor or a doctor. In reality, there are a lot of
other fields in which our knowledge needs to be propagated
and needs to be applied so that others can interact can learn and
can be educated.
In the home perspective, again, recognizing the importance of
education, recognizing the importance of applying that
education to both our dunya and our deen is part of building a
strong family building a foundation of the family that can
continue to grow on that sense of
you know, there's a beautiful quote by a man named Greg
Mortenson who wrote a book called Three Cups of Tea. He was a
mountain climber who fell when he was climbing mountains in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. And the family took him in and they drank
three cups of tea with him. And so he told them that he felt like
they were family. And he would go back to the US and raise funds to
build schools in their country. When he did come back to the US,
he did build a foundation, an organization called pennies for
peace, in which he raised funds to build schools. When he went back
to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He built schools for girls. And when
the journalist began to ask him, Why did you only build schools for
girls? He explained, if you educate a boy, you've educated an
individual, if you educate a girl, you've educated generation. And
this is the truth that when we educate our daughters, along with
the education of our sons, we will see that our communities will
grow. The love within the family will grow upon that foundation. So
I pray that Allah Halim will give us elmen filha a beneficial
knowledge that will help us to grow within our families in our
homes and in our communities. Joseph come along here and I look
forward to seeing you again tomorrow in sha Allah as we
continue this journey together. I said I'm out