Do THIS and Unlock Ihsan

So O'Raghu Aswhani told us, we want to

reform ourselves, if we want to purify ourselves

to get to the level of Khalifa or

Khidafa, Then we have to,

subject ourselves to education so that we develop

wisdom. We have to subject ourselves and train

ourselves upon restraint so that we develop the

capacity for generosity. We have to subject ourselves

and train ourselves with patience so that we

develop the capacity for courage, bravery, contentment, and

forbearance.

And then finally, we have to habituate ourselves

to justice so that we develop ihsan.

And what the author means by this is

that when you move through life,

kind of with a lens where you are

focusing on the just, on being fair, on

giving everyone their rights, then this is a

transferable skill that is going to enable you

to have ihsan towards all of creation. Okay.

And this is why the prophet

said that all of the creation

makes istirfar.

Right? It asks Allah to forgive the Adam.

And he said, even the fish in the

sea. Right? Because if you are concerned about

justice, then you are going to care about

what happens to those fish. Right? You're going

to care if somebody's dumping chemicals in the

lake. You're gonna care if somebody

is, you know there's microplastics

that are getting into their lungs and everything

like this. You're going to care about,

you know, the rivers and the oceans and

the forest. And you're gonna care about your

family and your neighbors and your Muslims. Right?

It's basically putting on your radar your duty

to all of these different parts of creation.

Whereas before, the life of the life of,

of heedlessness, you're only thinking about yourself. You're

only thinking about your your your

desire. What do I want? What do I

wanna do today? How How am I gonna

spend my time, my free time? Right? How

am I gonna make myself happy? Somebody who

has an eye for justice,

they're going to start looking around for other

people and what they need, whether it's your

spouse, whether it's your children, whether it's your

extended relatives, your parents.

And once you've done that enough and once

you've trained yourself enough,

that sort of unlocks the capacity

to have Ihsan towards them, to have excellence

towards them. Because you've lost yourself in the

process, lost yourself in a certain sense of

the word. Like, you've actually found your true

self, which is this khalifa, which is the

servant, this, you know, almost managerial role. But

you've lost yourself in the sense that you're

no longer just making all of your decisions

based off of what's good for you. You

are very, very sensitive to what's best for

have excellence towards everybody else.

have excellence towards everybody else.