Suzy Ismail – #38 AlKabeer

Santa Monica, it's nice to see you again as we continue to bring the

divine into the deli by understanding how we can

incorporate the 99 names of Allah 's power dialer and the

characteristics of those names into our daily lives to improve

our relationships with our spouse, and with our children. The name

that we're going to discuss today is El Kabir. Which when we speak

about Allah subhanaw taala, and then this attribute, we understand

that it means that Allah is the Greatest or the most great when we

stand in our salah, and we raise our hands up and we say Allahu

Akbar, it's a reminder that again, not just that Allah is great, but

that he is Al Kabir, the greatest. And in standing in that prayer and

raising our hands upwards, we're reminding ourselves as well, that

Allah subhanaw taala is greater than anything else in our lives,

he is greater than our difficulties, He's greater than

our challenges, he is greater than the test that we endure in this

dunya. However, you know, from a parent's perspective, or even from

a spouse perspective, oftentimes when we enter into our salah, and

we raise our hands and we begin with Allahu Akbar, calling upon

Allah subhanaw taala by his name of Al Kabir, a million other

thoughts enter into our heads, it becomes the period of time where

we're thinking, you know, did I feed my children did I turn off

the stovetop, what my husband said to me, the other day starts to

come into my mind, what my wife said to me may start to affect my

thoughts, whether or not I paid the bills, whether or not the

grass guy is supposed to come and cut the lawn, whether or not the

cleaning person is supposed to come, a million thoughts come into

our minds, as soon as we raise our hands and say, Allahu Akbar. And

yet that raising of the hands is that reminder that Allah is

greater than any of those things. Allah is greater than the thoughts

of the mundane of the dunya that may enter our head thought our

head into that into that moment. And sometimes, you know, when we

are in the heat of an argument with a spouse, when we are talking

to our children, but they're being difficult, or we're having trouble

in getting them to see our viewpoint. Sometimes that's the

hardest time to be able to clear our minds. And yet, it's the exact

time that we need to do so when our children are acting difficult,

will often say it's time for a timeout, and we'll give them that

space, we'll give them that time to think about their actions in

the hopes that they'll come back and change whatever behavior they

were doing that was inappropriate, or that we didn't like. Yet. For

us as adults, many times we don't give ourselves that timeout. We

don't take away from the rush and the runaround, in order to address

that which is most important. And our Salah is just that. Our Salah

is our timeout, it's our opportunity to step away from the

everyday to step away from the busyness that consumes our lives.

And to truly remind ourselves that Allahu Akbar, Allah is Al Kabir,

that he is greater than all else. So the next time we experienced

difficulty, we are struggling. We get into a heated debate or an

argument with our spouse, we are trying to get our children to

understand something and they're just not understanding. Take a

timeout and raise your hands up and remind yourself of who is the

greatest and that He Allah subhanaw taala is greater than any

difficulty we may be going through in that moment. So I pray that

Allah subhanaw taala LKB eases our difficulties for us. The guides us

every step of the way, and allows us to truly experience serenity

and tranquility when we raise our hands and Salah and begin with

Allahu Akbar, to the Komodo head and I look forward to speaking to

you again as we continue to bring the divine into the daily. That's

what I'm Aleykum