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