Tom Facchine – You Have Poor Character
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The prophet Muhammad
said that there's nothing heavier in your scales
on the day of judgment than good character.
And everybody knows that hadith, and we hear
it a lot. However, it doesn't really necessarily
register with us. We live in a historical
moment where we prioritize
being right, being right, or knowing the right
thing as opposed to doing the right thing.
And so somebody can have all of the
answers in the world. Someone can be a
top scholar in their field. But if they
have arrogance,
what's that knowledge going to do for them?
Or what's that knowledge going to do to
the people that they teach? The prophet alaihis
salatu wasalam also told us that some of
the first people to enter the fire were
people who seem to do good things, but
they they were doing it for the wrong
reasons. They were doing it because of arrogance,
because of reputation, because of all these sorts
of things. They have poor character. Whereas the
opposite is true. If you have good character,
then even the little bit of knowledge that
you have is going to be it's gonna
be maximized. It's going to be optimized. It's
going to go very, very far. Even if
you make mistakes. Even if you are you
know, you don't get everything right. If you
have good character, it's going to be infectious.
It's going to be contagious. It's going to
attract people to you. It's going to attract
blessing. And it's even going to lead people
to want to emulate you in your faith.
So good character is something that comes first.
There's no secret why, you know, Imam Malik
and all the other sort of scholars, we
have these stories that are part of our
tradition that we tell and we not along
to, but but we don't really implement these
days. The first thing that you go and
learn is the character of your sheikh. Learn
the character of your teacher. Be humble. Get
that stuff figured out first. Because if you
start just learning the material before you fix
yourself, it's going to be against you and
not for you.