A Good Word Is Like A Good Tree

Omer El-Hamdoon

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Johan Latina man otaku la haka to it, well as mo moon nyla and tomassini moon or you believe fear Allah as he should be feared and die not except in a state of Islam

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by the respective brothers and sisters or loss of Hannah Montana

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uses many methods in the plan

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to make the realities closer, so that we can understand the loss of Hannah with Allah

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uses eloquent methods, best ways to make the message reach and one of those methods is giving examples and similar toots. Because in giving examples and similar to its

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realities, which may be beyond the conception and the perception of the human can become more realized.

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You understand things maybe you are more familiar with things that you can sense you can see you can touch, smell, etc. and concepts which maybe don't really relate to so Allah subhanho wa Taala gives them time

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so that people can understand and comprehend what it can lanthanum abrigo holiness, Allah says these are the examples we strike them to the people.

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For maybe people will use that Apple use their mind and intellect comprehend or maybe they will be reminded because the reminder benefits those who have imagined

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and of the examples that allows that Hannah Montana gives us as mentioned in Surah

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Ibrahim Allah subhanho wa Taala says lm Taranaki

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Do you not see how Allah strikes the example of a good word? Like a good tree?

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A good word like a good tree.

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A good word would you say

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what comes out of your mouth

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is like a good dream.

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And the loss of Hannah wattana encouraged us to say things which are best

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but only everybody

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say to my slaves,

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tell them to say that which is best.

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Not just to say what is hassen? What is good, but what is accent always looking out for the best.

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Choosing the right words, choosing the best words, choosing when to say the words and when not to save them. All part of the whole concept of kenema breakeven

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and when you look in the Quran, you see Allah Subhana Allah dialect gives the examples of people throughout time. We're using words and choosing the right words so that they would make the message clear and sometimes they would avoid using words

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so that they would not fall into any other

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misunderstanding.

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And so Allah subhanho wa Taala reminds us that a good word is like a good tree.

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We all know what a good tree is like. We've experienced it, we've seen it.

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But Allah subhanho wa Taala reminds us

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Kalamata

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Boniva. In

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this tree its roots, the oscillator is the roots, its foundations are secure a solid

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wall for Aloha.

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And its branches out into the sky.

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To a to hula, hula is the name of Bihar, it brings forth its fruit, it's food.

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Now when again, with the permission of its Lord.

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This is what the tree is about. This is what a good tree is about. And this is what good word is about.

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Because when you speak a good word,

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that word

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will be like a seed that is planted.

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And that seed will become a tree.

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And that tree, depending on a number of factors, that tree will

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branch out.

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And the first benefits that come out from that tree

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are seen when it becomes green. And the leaves come out. That greenery that the person experiences

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is satisfying for the self.

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It's reassuring, it's calming, psychologically is powerful.

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And that's why the agenda is agreed. And that's why the clothes in the gender green. It's It's a beautiful color. It's it's reassuring.

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And then the tree gives its flowers and blossoms.

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And those flowers as we know come in different shapes and sizes and different colors and different smells and sense. Again appealing.

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So even before the fruit comes out from the tree, even before your words, blossom, already there is benefit in the way that the word is presented.

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Good words will have that impact. They are pleasant to see and to experience even before they are heard.

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And then the fruit comes.

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And people will enjoy the fruit. And they will benefit from the fruit. Its taste, its texture, the enjoyment, the pleasure when you have this nice delicacy of a fruit that is placed in front of you and just sitting and enjoying that. And this is how words are.

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This is how it was.

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And this was a loss of hands. Allah wants us to experience and understand.

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Because, as you know,

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warned us about that which is between our two jaws.

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Which is the tongue.

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The tongue, which is a tool. It's an expression of the words, although the tongue itself doesn't produce the words, the words come out from your throat from your voice box. But the tongue has been used because it's the one it's the way that diverts that sound. Your tongue is placed in a certain position or in a certain way. That's how the words come out.

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So your tongue is directing those words. And it is this piece of muscle, which has no bones. It is not hard in any way. It's not physically dangerous. It's actually very dangerous, because of the words that come out of it. And so Allah subhanaw taala wants you to be aware of what comes out of your mouth. In terms of words. They could be

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as the prophet SAW said, lamb warned moron, even a jabber when he said be careful he held his tongue. And he said MC gallica hold back this.

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Someone said it your solo una semana de Kalam will we be accounted for what we speak.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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was a little bit surprised with the answer of mine because mine, as you know, is Island movement he will holla and we'll hold on one. He's the most knowledgeable in terms of heroin or heroin. So his question was not befitting for more. And so that's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said setcolor como kaomise? How can you ask such a question? What else would cause people to be thrown on their faces in the fire, except the harvest of their tongues,

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the harvest of the tongues, because your tongues are sowing the seeds, and you will harvest that in the afternoon.

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And that's why one of the most things that will cause the people to enter into the fire is the tongue.

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And so we have to make use of the other way, try to make sure that the time is the tool for both positive actions,

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Kenny mountain biking,

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always giving the good words. Because when you give good words, you are doing so much things which will benefit you.

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Much like the tree benefits from having leaves, much like the tree benefits from flowers, much like the tree benefits from fruits, because the fruits will spread and the seeds as the seeds have spread elsewhere, and they bring out more trees. So it is a mutual benefit there.

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But we know that words, and tree, the trees are of different types.

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Normal tree trees are the same.

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There's different types of trees with different types of fruits.

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And that means that different words will have different impacts. Sometimes you will say certain words and choose those different words they might give you an apple tree.

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Others might be mangoes, and others might not be a fruit tree at all, they might just be one of these four trees or the pine trees. So different words will be like different trees, and how you use those words. And which way you plant those words will be how those trees are as well, to see the extension of the example. And not only that, but even within the same type of a tree.

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Not all trees give the same yield

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might have two pear trees, exactly the same. But one tree gives yields either on 20 kilograms of fruit and the other one gives five. Why? Because it's not just the words that will give that yield. It's also the things that surround the words. How do you say the words?

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What is your expression? What is your tone? What is the sincerity in how you deliver the words.

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You know, everyone can maybe deliver a message. But some people's message gets to the hearts because it comes out from the heart.

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And some people choose the right words, not only choosing the right words, the way that they were talking about the way hear their tone, their body language, it's all important. So even whilst the trees and the words are the same, the yield will be different. And a lot of the time odana wants to ask to consider that as well. Choosing the right words, and making sure that the words are spoken in the best way. And that is an kennametal

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because once you plan these kalama to play here,

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you will be enacting this sowing of these trees. And that's why the concentration on the words is so important that a person has to use and think about how he chooses the words.

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And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us many a time how to think about what we are saying.

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How to make sure that we don't use words even though the words may be correct.

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That we should not use those words if they have a misconception in the minds of the people. And indeed Allah subhanho wa Taala said, Yeah, you are Latina man Hola. Taku rhina waku horna was mal don't say? Allah subhanaw taala said to the believers

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Don't say you are in what say unbowed, Narayana, in the Arabic language means Yeah, look at us, around me. There are any antibiotic, give me your attention.

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Okay.

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But what happened is, some people

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construed that word or misunderstood that word because that word can also come and mean or Arina mean arena, which means from the hardness.

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So some of the inhabitants

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of the Israelites in Medina, they were coming up to the prophet and they were saying, right, meaning you are harsh.

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So they were trying to use the same word, but they were using it in a different way. So Allah subhanho wa Taala said, Don't use this word, use another word, which is on board now, which means also the same locales. So choosing the right words, is important so that people do not construe that word and not use it in a different way.

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So it's not just important that the words are that the words are good, but how do you choose the most appropriate word as well?

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And even with your relationship

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with a loss of Hannah what

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it reflects your concerns.

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And I just give you one example.

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The prophets of Allah subhanaw taala tells us about

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the wife fulfilled

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as an example for those who believed or baba last month Ellen Latina, an

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example for those who had a man was the wife of crown. Now what is the wife of crown and what was her to ask?

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her to go out was Rob Be it Binney he Baten feature now, when she asked a lot in Canada, even in her

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she used and said, My Lord built for me

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in Your presence with you a house in agenda.

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And so she used the word in there can you first before the house

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and even there is a very beautiful subtlety because she requested

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the neighbor before she requested the house. She asked the companion or to be close to a law it'd be nearly in deca beta Infineon machines a Benelli beighton intergraph in general. So she requested the indicate before the debate. And this is very a subtle of subtle way, but it shows you how people will think about the words that they use.

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And you can see with use of a similar thing. Because use of as you know, the story of useful

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and how his brothers plotted against him and they wanted to kill him and they ended up throwing him in the, in the in the well and etc, etc. And it was gave him such a hard time.

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But when he came to summarize the story of himself,

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he Thanks a lot.

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And he says, My Lord has been great to me. And he made me come out of the well come out of the prison.

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And he has brought you all together after.

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He doesn't say after my brother's plotting against me, and they threw me in the well. And he said after the shavon interfered between me and my brothers. Even though his brothers they were to blame for it, but he didn't want to make it this is a time for reconciliation. So even using the right word and I experienced at that time was important to ensure

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that relations continue well. So sometimes the Kadima

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is not just about the words you say it's also about the circumstances and making sure that the circumstances fit in because it's all about reconsideration. A whole lot probably has a lot to do with a start up as well.

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Alhamdulillah

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wa salam ala

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nabina Muhammad Ali, he was a human be a 38 by the law of law come out on a number but yeah, you don't have to know the law.

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sadita kumana como

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la Sula,

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the extension of this similar tude,

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he was sitting with the Sahaba, one day and somebody brought him a plate, which had something called a drummer, a drummer was like the inner core of the palm tree, which sometimes is used like a form of form of delicacy, they soften it, and they get the sweet texture. So why don't you He was then he said to his Sahaba

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there is a tree, which is from the desert trees, they examine example of that tree is like the example of a believer.

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What is this tree? He is questioning them to try and,

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you know, try and explicitly extract extract from them and answer and also to make them think,

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an example of a desert tree, which it's like the beginner, what is this tree? So the Sahaba were thinking, and they were guessing, you know, different different types of these desert trees, you know, we know all these different sort of trees like the cacti, and you know, these trees, the bushes and pigs, so they're all talking about these different trees. So Abdullah, Omar was there and he said, I was thinking in myself that this is the palm tree, the date palm.

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And I wanted to say that, but I saw the people who are sitting there, there was a bunker, and there was Omar, you know, there was the elder Sahaba. So I didn't want to, I didn't want to say and I didn't want to show it for like, I'm clever, or some sort of smart, smart guy. So I didn't say anything. I knew that then the Sahaba didn't guess so the prophet SAW Selim said he and it is the date palm, because its leaves do not drop.

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Its leaves do not drop. And it is made use of in many ways.

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Abdullah bin Omar later says to his father that, you know, I, I knew the answer. So his father said, Why did you say it? Because how do you say it turned out to be so excited, so happy for you, it'd be better for me a more beloved to me, then. So and so much wealth. The point being here

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is that the reality of a tree we said that the good words, I was like planting a tree, but what the proper size and I was extending this simile, Jude, because he is saying to you that not only do your words become tree, but the believer, he becomes an embodiment of the good word. Because when you experience and live good words, kennametal by Eva, you become like that, you become like that tree because the beauty and the boundaries that come from that tree is life liberty.

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And therefore when you look at Imam Bukhari, and the shadow of that Hadees, by even hydro, you'll see they have listed, you know, 10s of benefits that come out from the palm tree.

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And how it is similar to the believer, believer, in terms of not only giving the fruit, and not in terms of only giving the shade, and but it's continuous, every part of the country is useful. And that's how the believer should be, should be useful in all his aspects, in all his reality continues to give. And even like,

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people might abuse the tree.

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But the tree continues to give.

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And this is not effective. And that's why one of the scholars who said you know, you should be like the tree, because people throw stones at the tree. But in return the tree gives them fruit back, Frozen, it throws fruit back at them. So people give that abuse or that harm, but the tree response the kindness, which is again an example of the character of the Muslim, Latin so it has an A to A senior. It good acts and bad acts can never be equal its fidelity acts and always push back bad things with good things, good responses, because that's better and a lot of how Nautilus is even if a person is your enemy, he will become like a close friend with good respect and good practice. So

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once we are looking at the simple truth of a good tree

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it's important for us to understand

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That we have to continue in our lives and let those words that we say, also guide us in this life. And that's why I'm delighted not I said, what maybe one of the best

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examples of good words is Kenny McIntosh

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is like,

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because it's such a good word encompasses everything. It encompasses the whole of why the universe is founded.

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At the kelemen play, that's like the peak of and caramel flavor. And so when you understand this kalama play event and you live la isla Halima one in your life, you become such a beautiful, beneficial tree, which extends its its boundaries to and that's how the Muslim is beneficial, always because of

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your benefit beneficial, because you know, that Allah orders you to do good and orders you to be just in the law, hurry up model, Bill. I mean, you and your son

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enjoys all this you to practice righteousness and justice and looking after your relatives and so on. And many other aspects. So that law law, law law is the foundation for being a better Muslim, for practicing Islam, in its beauty.

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And I think it's very important for us, once we're looking at good words, and thinking about what we are saying is that we also make use of a very important

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aspect that Allah subhanho wa Taala has given us because most people fall into mistakes. Most people's go away from the foundation of this category of labor, because they don't use their brain. They don't use the intellect, they don't use their mind. They don't use the app.

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Because the app can by its very nature should be something which prevents you, which holds you back. Whenever you want to say something, it should be processed in your activity.

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It should be processed first, you should be saying, am I What am I going to say now? Is it useful? Is it going to be beneficial? Do I need to save this?

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Is there going to be any harm if I don't say this, it has to be processed. But 99% of the time, the humans don't do that process. And that's why we have lots of things coming out of our mouth, which we regret later on because we don't ask those questions. And the ACA is not doing this job, because they happen as the Arabs,

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meaning of the word Apple is from the word rain, they are very hard, which holds back the animal holds back the horse or the camel, when you ride the horse or camel use the apple or the acorn to control the animal. So your Apple should be controlling you and preventing you from just going inside inside and straying away. And by using your Apple, your tongue will be controlled. And that's an important step. The second thing which is also just as important, is the company that you're associated with. Because when you are associated with good people, they will influence you in the kind of speech that comes out. And that's why I modeled the alarm when he was asked about what

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remains of the pleasures of the dounia.

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He said very little remains of the pleasures of the dunya except fasting in the days which are hot.

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And praying in the in the darkness of the night. And sitting with brothers

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sitting with brothers who choose their words, who choose what they say. Very much like people choose what kind of fruit they have. And they they pick the best of fruits. So these people when they sit they choose the best words to say. And by doing that. Obviously that will influence the kind of conversation that you have and the kind of things that come out from

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a lot more sort of Islam and Muslim.

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Muslim in a lot of the hornier Hawaii the Fiji me and Hyde Island in