Abdullah Oduro – Hadith #17 Shielding Faults, The Path to Mercy, Humility, and Guidance

			On the authority of Abu Hurayrah Arabic Allahu anhu, that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said, lay yes to Abdullah, I've done it dunya Illa sutra hola who yo melty Amity. This hadith is
narrated by Muslim and so hey, the Prophet saw some said a servant does not cover the faults of
another servant in the world, but that Allah will cover his faults on the Day of Resurrection. And
this is important for you growing up as a man to realize that there are going to be times when you
have to speak out, and you may have to give advice. And that's the first point is giving the Nasi
had the advice, irregardless of the consequences, or the relationship, particularly when between you
		

			and the brother, between you and the man between you and the Father, between you and the husband. If
he's violating someone,
		

			he's violating his wife, for example. And you want to tell him, given the advice, man, you can't be
doing that, you know, or, you know, your family called my wife. And I have to tell you, that you
want to think about what you're doing, are you exposed, and I want to sit and talk to you about
that, giving the appropriate advice. If you're a young teenager, and your friend is doing something
that is causing harm to people, whether it's selling drugs, whether it's taking drugs, he's harming
himself, and he's harming his family members that may know. Now, it's important that
		

			we understand when in regards to giving the advice.
		

			We give advice with the grace period have given him the opportunity to be better. And that's the
point is the importance of advice, regardless of the consequences, but also giving people a chance
to be better. And that's the second point. So the first is the advice. The second is giving people
the opportunity to improve. If you're a true brother, if you're someone that Islam really wants you
to be, you give your brother advice, but don't expect him to respond to a five minutes later,
though, expect him to respond to a five weeks later. But when you see him, you ask about him, you in
your heart one good for him. And that is character. That's character, because you give him the
		

			opportunity to look at himself to think about what's going on, to look at his wife, his family, what
Allah has given him, knowing that it's a trust, and it's an Amana. And hopefully, he didn't even
realize it because he's so busy in the rat race. Oh, he's so busy on social media at school with so
many friends that are bad influences, but you telling him things, and he feels that energy that you
care about him. That's what's important. That's brotherhood. Most importantly, well, that's
Brotherhood, which is important. And that's also manhood, a strong sign of manhood. You pull them to
the side, you don't expose him on social media. You don't expose him to other people that can help
		

			him. Now when we're talking about snitching
		

			you know, those of you that don't know stitching is snitching is telling us somebody. If it is
someone that you have given time, and you want to give him the advice, and it's causing harm to
other people. He's got to grow emotionally involved, and she's head over heels for him to Muslims.
And he has no intention of marrying her. He has no intention of making her a wife, a mother of his
children. You got to give him the advice. You give them the advice, but then there may be a time
where you need to expose him, regardless of the consequences of the friendship between you and him.
That's not snitching. But what's most important is that you are upright in the way that you act to
		

			her when he sees the one that snitched in his perspective, or told on him. He sees that you're
someone that's upright, he sees a shoo in that's pulled him to the side as a man and gave him the
advice that pulled him to the side as a man and gave him the advice. That's why this hadith is so
important. The last point is this leads to humility. Because one of the driving factors that will
make you look at that person that you know, sometimes you will find someone that's jealous. I never
forget one time I was working with his doctor. I used to be a surgical tech. And he looked at me
said I used to hate guys like you like what are you talking about? He said, You athletes, you
		

			athletes, you're the ones that I hated. Y'all got all the girls, I used to sit in the bleachers. And
look at y'all, and I could barely speak English, learning English. And you are the ones that
gathered goes now it's my time he points himself. Now I'm a doctor, it's my time I'm going to have
my font is exactly what he told me.
		

			When you're someone that sees someone like that, or if you're someone that is academically there but
socially not accepted, and you want to tell on a person that may be doing wrong to people, look at
yourself first. Look at yourself and see okay, let me give him advice. Even though I despise people
quote unquote, like him, he deserves Islam. That when that's an athlete, and people all over him,
and I despise that and I see he is girls, give him advice. I see Hi belittles people
		

			his teammates, give him advice. He may make fun of you, given the advice, be someone that doesn't
hold them accountable immediately. Give him the advice. And after giving the advice, you may have to
expose him, especially if it's to a lot of people. And that's a true sign of manhood. Because you're
withholding Up Your Honor, the honor of Islam, being that you are embodying Islam, when he sees you
do that, it's because you are Muslim before anything else, and because you are a man, may Allah
subhanaw taala make us of those that are humble, that want good for our brothers what we want for
ourself, and knowing that humility is the ultimate driving factor behind that bad coffee. Consider
		

			monochrome until everybody gets it