Suzy Ismail – #43 AlKarim

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 subhanaw taala into our daily

lives to improve the relationship with our families. The name that

we're going to talk about today is El Karim, which means the most

generous. When we think of generosity, we often think of

generosity in terms of the custom of the home of opening our homes

to people, of feeding people of inviting them in. Well, that is

one type of generosity. Without a doubt, there's a different type of

cudham that we can incorporate into our daily lives. And that's

the generosity of our words. Many times it's easy to criticize our

spouse, it's easy to criticize our children, it's easy to point to

the shortcomings in each of them. But when we are generous with our

words, it becomes easier for us to give the words of kindness and the

words of kindness towards a spouse towards a child, the words of

encouragement, the words of pointing out that which we like

that which we admire, that which we appreciate, can often carry a

great deal of weight. And sometimes that type of cut on that

type of generosity is harder for us to give than the generosity of

opening our homes, or the generosity of giving food or the

generosity of giving money or buying gifts. And we see this

particularly with our children, when we sometimes try to

overcompensate for time that we're not able to spend with our

children, or maybe sometimes for an inability to give in the

kindness of the words. And in those cases, a lot of times,

again, we miss out on the opportunity to be generous, to be

generous with our love. So I urge you all to take this moment, to be

generous with your words, to reach over to your child and hug that

child to reach over to your spouse and to hug that spouse and to give

a kind word, a word of reminder as to why you love the people in your

life that Allah subhanaw taala has blessed you with. And I pray that

Allah subhanaw taala al Karim always allows us to experience his

generosity, his bounty, and his giving in terms of our blessings

and our bottlecap does not come a little higher. And I look forward

to speaking to you again as we continue to bring the divine into

the daily cinematical.