Suzy Ismail – #20 AlAleem

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