Suzy Ismail – #59 AlMubdi

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

			divine into the daily by
understanding how we can
		

			incorporate the 99 names of Allah
subhana wa Dyana into our daily
		

			lives to improve the relationship
with our spouse and with our
		

			children. The name that we're
going to discuss today is and
		

			looked at, which means the
beginner or the originator, the
		

			initiator, the one from which all
initiates from or originates from.
		

			When we understand the concept of
Elmo, we know that Allah subhanahu
		

			wata, Allah is the Creator. And we
know that everything begins with
		

			Allah. Within our own families,
when we look to our children, many
		

			times we think of ourselves the
parents as the originators of the
		

			path that we want our children to
follow. And while it's beautiful
		

			to encourage our children, to not
just be as we are, but to be
		

			better than we are, in terms of
their character in terms of their
		

			HELOC, their adult, sometimes
taking that path of being like the
		

			originator or trying to be like
the initiator, we try to create a
		

			mold that we squeeze our children
into. But that mold that we
		

			squeeze our children into can
sometimes be very confining. And
		

			although we may be that first
stop, of where our children begin
		

			to learn how they process the
world, of how they view the world
		

			of how they make decisions of how
they develop their character and
		

			their perspective on life, we are
definitely not the last stop.
		

			Because our children will pave
their own way, they will figure
		

			out the path as well from what
they see around them from their
		

			friends from their environments.
And as much as we might like to
		

			keep them in that mold that we've
created, as they enter into their
		

			preteen years, their teenage years
and their young adulthood, we will
		

			soon find that they will step away
from that mold, and they will
		

			create their own mold. And that
can be a very beautiful process if
		

			we've given the foundation, and
we've provided our children with
		

			the ability to make the right
choices, because they will make
		

			choices, and they will make
mistakes. And those mistakes will
		

			be different than the mistakes
that we have made. And although
		

			again, we view ourselves as the
originators as the home where the
		

			seeds sprouts from and continues
to grow. The reality is that the
		

			nature that surrounds our
children, the social atmosphere,
		

			the friends, what they experience
in school, what they experience in
		

			college, will shape them as well.
And rather than fighting against
		

			that shaping and that molding,
instead, as parents, it's our time
		

			to be able to step back a little
bit and say, We are here for you.
		

			We are here to guide you, we are
here to help you. We're not here
		

			to mold you and shape you into the
exact form as we were when we were
		

			your children when we were
children your age. And we know of
		

			course that US aid now hollyrock
jello and who reminded us that we
		

			should not raise our children in
the exact way that we were raised,
		

			we should not have those exact
same expectations for every
		

			generation will face problems that
differ from the generation before.
		

			So I pray that Allah subhanaw With
the highlight and moped that the
		

			originator the initiator
consistently allows us as parents
		

			to provide that initiation into
the world for our children in the
		

			best way possible, but not to feel
so contained or to contain our
		

			children into a mold that they are
going to try to break free from
		

			because they are going to find
their own paths and their own
		

			journeys to Zakouma low higher.
And I look forward to speaking to
		

			you again as we continue to bring
the divine into the daily as Santa
		

			Monica