Suzy Ismail – #65 AlWajid

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 between us and our spouse and our

children. The name that we're going to discuss today is L word,

which means the persisting the one who wants nothing and lacks

nothing.

When we look at our relationships, oftentimes, they are built upon

desire, they're built upon want, they're built upon feeling like we

lack something. But the reality is when we feel that we lack

something in life, and that that something can only be filled by

another person, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment,

we are setting ourselves up for false expectations. Because when

we lack something in our lives, maybe it's a sense of loneliness,

maybe it's a feeling that something is missing. That sense

of seeking an all elusive happiness will often try to pin

that sense of missing something on a spouse on a child. There are

many marriages that may be going through difficulties or

struggling. And the couple may think, if we only have a child,

things will get better. Because the want for affection, the want

for appreciation, the want for a sense of completeness, is assumed

to be filled by another person. Or many times there will be

individuals who are seeking a spouse, and who will say I want to

feel loved, I want to feel complete, I need to feel XYZ and

if I get married, I will have those ones filled. Of course, this

is not the case. When we are lacking something internally,

something emotional, something that we feel is missing in our

lives. The first place that we should turn is not to the left or

to the right to look for a person, but it's upwards to seek the

guidance of Allah subhanaw taala to seek the guidance of a legit,

who wants nothing who lacks nothing, and who we pray will

allow us to feel fulfilled in the best of ways, not by anchoring our

hopes and our dreams and our wants and our desires to another person.

But by anchoring those hopes, those dreams, those desires, to

the love of Allah subhanaw taala does that come a low head? And I

pray that a legend allows us all to find that serenity in our

relationships by looking upwards rather than around us, the sun

Armonico