Suzy Ismail – #74 & #75 Al’Awwal & Al’Akhir

Saramonic 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 subhanaw taala, and the

characteristics of those names into our daily lives to improve

our family relationships. The two names that we're going to tackle

today are the names of an Owen Well,

the first and the last. When we think of Allah subhanaw taala, as

the first and the last, we understand Him to be the eternal,

the one who is always in existence, before creation, and

after creation. Now, when we think about the first and the last

within our own lives, we begin to understand it from a sense of

time.

Considering the way that our marriages unfold, for example, we

see that at the start of our marriages at the very first, in

the early days of our marriages, we feel a sense of excitement, a

sense of anticipation, a sense of feeling that the journey that

we're going to embark upon is one that is filled with hope and love.

And yet many times in the last days of marriage, and when I say

the last time discussing or talking about marriages that may

be facing an end or facing a point of separation, or divorce, those

initial feelings, those first feelings that we've had, of

anticipation, excitement, love connection, may feel as if they

are no longer there. And that's because our feelings or emotions

can often be fleeting, they are not eternal, they are not

necessarily so deep rooted, or so long lasting, that they will

continue to feel the same from the first to the last. So how do we

maintain that sense of the first excitement, the first emotion to

the very last of our relationship, it's knowing how to differentiate

between fleeting emotions, and deep rooted deep seated mawatha

that is built upon a sense of Russia, or built upon a sense of

connection that has seen a couple through trials and tribulations

through the difficult moments, and the beautiful moments and all of

those different moments of marriages. So although the

feelings of the first in the first days of marriage may be very

different from the feelings we have in the last, recognizing that

difference does not need to mean the end, it does not need to mean

that the feelings are completely gone. It simply means that the

change in the feelings can adapt and work together with the couple

as the couple grows, and their lives are enriched by one another.

We also see see the cycle of the first and the last in the

replication of who we may be, you know, when we think of our

children, as toddlers, they may be at that stage where they're

difficult, you know, they give us a hard time eating, they may

embarrass us they may not always cooperate. And then old age we may

also see in our parents, some of those same replications of the

first days were the elderly may also sometimes be difficult, may

not want to cooperate, may not want to eat, and may sometimes

take actions that are reminiscent of what a toddler or child may do.

And this is the Sunnah of the hair. This is the cycle of life,

where we replicate what may have been our lives in the first days,

to our lives in the last days, where the help we may have needed

from our parents as children becomes the help that they need as

our parents. So I pray that Allah subhanaw taala and a will will air

her reminds us consistently of his eternal being of his eternal

constancy, and brings into our own lives, a sense of constancy that

sees us through the first days of our lives to the very last and

sees us through the first days of our marriages to the very last

inshallah Jazza como lo que it was salam alaikum