Suzy Ismail – #59 AlMubdi
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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