Suzy Ismail – #55 AlMatin

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

divine into the daily. But understanding how we can

incorporate the 99 names of Allah subhanaw taala, and the

characteristics of those names into our daily lives to improve

our relationship with our spouse and with our children. The name

that we're going to discuss today is L Mateen. Which means the firm

or the steadfast in our day to day lives, it can sometimes be

difficult to maintain that sense of being steadfast. We see it in

our prayers, for example, where we may wake up one morning, and we

get up early and we make it in time for Salatin measure,

especially these days, as you know, we have a good window, a

period of time to actually catch solids and fish. And we may feel

very enthusiastic and think that's it today, I'm gonna get all of my

prayers in on time. And then you know, the time for Saltillo to

comes around, and you're occupied, you're busy with work, you're busy

running after the children, you're busy doing a million things, and

we lose that sense of steadfastness. And instead of

getting our load of prayer on time, we find ourselves delaying

it, and we delay it until the Asad prayer. And then when we miss the

answer to prayer, we may think to ourselves, Oh, it's okay, you

know, I'll catch it at Mount of time. And then before we know it,

we may lose the entire thread of our salon for that day. The same

thing occurs in our day to day lives, in our relationships, and

particularly in our relationship with our spouse, maintaining

steadfastness, in our relationship requires a lot of patience, and a

lot of hard work. Because being steadfast in a relationship means

trying to recapture that sense of emotion that we may have in the

beginning of a marriage, that sense of excitement, that sense of

aha, entering into a new relationship, that sense of hope,

that this is a relationship that will be fruitful for both husband

and wife. That sense of excitement and anticipation of what the

future is going to bring. And while that sense of, of

anticipation, excitement, hope, and that heart that's full of

love, may be easy to maintain, in the first few months of marriage,

or the first few years of marriage. As those years roll on,

it can sometimes become more and more difficult to remain steadfast

in that relationship. And that's where the work comes in. Because

working on your marriage is something that you do not just

every day, but almost every minute of every day, because the way that

our mind works is that if we don't constantly check our mindset, if

we don't take the pulse of our mindset, then we can very easily

slip into a place where we begin to give in to the sensation of

boredom, or the sensation of feeling that a relationship is no

longer fulfilling, when in reality, it may be that we've lost

interest because of the difficulty of remaining steadfast. And

because of the way that our hearts can change so frequently within

the day, our hearts change from salon to salon, our hearts change

from minute to minute, and we've repeated quite frequently in these

episodes. The DUA that is so important for us to consistently

keep close to our heart and on our tongue, which is yeah, we'll call

liberal group fabric called be allied Enoch, oh changer of the

hearts, keep my heart steadfast on your faith. Because Allah

subhanaw, Taala and Mateen. The steadfast is the constant, and yet

our hearts are not always constant. And our hearts can

sometimes be up and down and all over the place if we don't

consistently monitor the well being of the heart. And if we

don't consistently take the pulse of our relationship, to see where

our marriage is. So remaining steadfast, whether it's in the

marital relationship, or remaining steadfast in terms of our worship

in terms of our connection to Allah subhanaw taala is a

characteristic that we should all strive for. So I pray that Allah

subhanaw taala el Mateen allows us to maintain that sense of

steadfastness in our relationships, and even more

importantly, in our worship of Him and in our consistent love for

him. Just like Komodo Hyde, and I look forward to speaking to you

again as we continue to bring the divine into the daily cinematical.