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Alhamdulillah alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala COVID

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mursaleen Shakira mutiny. vino Habib amin Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi hearing in Al Hamdulillah Nakamoto, who was

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one of the few who on a Sunday when I wrote the Villa butina armanino.

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Phenomenal Allah, Allah, Allah.

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Allah is Allahumma salli ala Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Abu rasuluh Bella Italia

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Holloman water aka

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Mr. lado How can a hurry her lazy when her

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mother in

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law? Well, hello howdy howdy Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Warszawa

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wakulla

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wakulla Allah Allah, always due to a loss of a witness that no one is worthy of worship, but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is indeed his final messenger. The best of speech is the book of Allah. The best of guidance is the guidance of Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And the worst of all matters is to innovate in religion. And every such kind of innovation, ism is guidance. And this guidance leads to the hellfire. You have Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Philippine has to be an

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attempt

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for other noosaville in Africa are a monofilament, by the woman at

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the minimum have done for College,

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where to live, we have

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an attorney, Jonathan Kameelah kodoku, who is me, he said that there was something

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about his time in this world is about to expire. So he called him his children to choose which one is going to replace him after his departure from the fall. And he gave each and every one of them a seed. And he said, you go ahead and you plant this seed and come back and see me after a year. And who ever got up the best tree out there, the one that blows up, he is going to be so fun. After after my departure,

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a year passes by mobile as well as

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so many I mean, who could watch it live in Germany, listen, Kevin, in the

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villa shake

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the bar, he has

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a shake. After the passage of the year, all nine of them came eight of them, they had a beautiful plan to come and show for the apartment. With the exception of one of them, he just had a vase with oil in it, but nothing ever came out of it, which I had a wonderful holiday led in the lab and after me

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while I'm turning.

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It said, Father, it seems like God wants me to serve, but not to lead people. And the father said, you will serve people, but in the capacity of the next meal or the next. So upon understanding quite what has happened. He said this test was not to to examine your agricultural skills, but rather that this test was to examine your integrity, I gave all nine of you that seeds,

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there was no way anybody can go out a tree of these death seeds that I gave. But they went out there with the impression that what is required of them is to come back to the tree. So they cheated. They all once and they got a different seed hoping that this seed is going to be better than the one that the Father gave them. And this one came in, and he said, I'm sorry, this is the seed that you gave me, but I could not grow it up. Not knowing that it was not supposed to be growing up. Sometimes what is consistent? What happened is that when we view life as a challenge, who can outdo the other person as a challenge, who can outdo people out run them, outsmart them, regardless of what price

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you pay in between that becomes a catastrophe.

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And that's why we say integrity, or character is everything.

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People say if you lose your wealth, you've lost something. If you lose your health, you've lost something. But if you lose your character, you've lost everything. You've lost everything. And nowadays we are taught to please differentiate between the behavior of somebody the conduct of somebody and then the character of the other person. We are part of being politically correct. You are lying. I'm not saying that you are alive. You cheat

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I'm not saying that you're a cheater, when we make this wicked distinction between the conduct of a person and the character of a person we have lost.

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Because character is the set of values, the set of principles, the set of actions, the words that we say that really make up our character. When we have a real Sonoma Valley, in an hour to live with a limited amount of law would be required to live with me my father in law, he said I was

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the main mission, why Allah has sent me so that I perfect no characters, so that I introduced the people, people have good characters and I am here to bring in the rest of the righteous characters in Annapolis father, and that record Manor system. People may may think we may think that we know what what good character is. However,

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he said that in order to have good character, you must have six components that go along with his good character. Jani has a colorful language and a human

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with Amanda forefather, zakresie, Amina.

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And we call them the six C's of character. They all start with the letter C. And that's why they say the waivers component of character is conscience. A person of character is a person of conscience, whether the Burmese, Burmese hi me mean, our mill dinner

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was a

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colossal

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mistake, he was very vocal Philip was your ally. And

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he said that when he was explaining guide us to the safe path, said that this is straight path is a path. However, in between, it's got different doors that would lead you different ways. And then he said however there is that conscious that tells you not to stray from the path and that conscious is what a lot of parents put in the hospital had malaria, Allah Allah.

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Allah who

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had it was said that there was this companion What about the man that was able to lay them in a layer upon will not say that

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they have to

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do it was

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said that tomorrow morning, I am going to go to the mystic and ask the Messenger of Allah, what is righteousness? What is sin and what is righteousness? But

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when the message when he came in the morning to the messages, the message was full, it was tough, but there are other ones who have been nervous. So while people kept people kept pushing people aside in order to make it to the Messenger of Allah, and people kept saying young

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people say welcome to sit down when you came in late, where are you going

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to happen? He said, however, I did not get I just kept coming to the Prophet Paloma.

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Then he said Fidelis, to LA hasta la vida.

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Until my knees were actually touching his knees. That's how close I came to the Messenger of Allah Subhana Allah, Yo, what is the agenda? Allahu Allah, Allah answers and we're in

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the mercy of Allah.

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If you wish, I can answer your question before you ask it. And if you wish, you can ask your question, and then I will answer it for you. It is nothing. I want you to answer it.

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alone and it's new. And in the last video game you're inquiring what is righteousness, and what is sin for Allah Who is that they are? Indeed, this is what I gave you.

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And if Mahaffey Fabrica Ohashi,

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he says sin is that which clicks in your heart, it splits in your heart, you got something bad feeling about it in your heart, and you are afraid that it may be exposed to people. When the man

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was excellent in what he realized was beautiful.

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He said however righteousness is that which the soul is comfortable with and the heart is in the state of peacefulness. In one

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column A man or woman

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is an indicator which is even show you a minute

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second until we're either term audit melkote February

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2 was delivered.

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The messenger

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example of

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What is going on and he uses two of the most beautiful words in the Arabic language, the word second quality and peace. And the example they give is that if you have a cup and you put some sand in a newspaper said that when the water comes to emotionless when the water is no longer moving, so, that is the state of second. However, when the sound goes all the way down to the bottom, that is the state of tranquility or the state of the promoter. So we have the messenger of a woman is saying that perk of having good character, a month is that we will be a person of conscious Well, we have eaten the beans on the level and it was in my second in a moment and illness were in a stack and not

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to

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say that if that was your fault, I speak in your heart is in the sense of tranquillity, even though people may justify it for you. And sometimes we even try to justify to ourselves, but deep inside you feel that this is wrong. This is what we call the inner moral compass that each and every one of us has, you must have conscious. So, the first of the six characters or of the six C's of character is conscience. The other one is consideration

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meaning that you are more thoughtful, you are more deliberative, you think to yourself, how am I how am I anxious, how are they going to impact the people who are around me. So you will come as a person that is considered whenever you

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do

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tend to

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look

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for upper level you follow?

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so the better one one time he invited the Prophet peace upon him to lunch, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was passing. But in the face of that better when you can see so much happiness, that the Messenger of Allah is about accept his invitation, and the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not want to disappoint with elephants do women

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need to

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attend Libya from Allahu Allah

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in the Delta.

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In one of these beautiful incidents, after the effects of sacrifice, prepare a bet on cancer the Messenger of Allah is a prophet of Allah, my wife has already cooked the meat for Allah. Allah, Allah.

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Allah, Allah, the Messenger of Allah said to you, you mean that you slaughter your meat before the patient even taken place, but Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah,

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Allah,

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Allah, Allah,

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Allah.

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Allah I was so eager that after the prayers that you come home, and you eat at my house, so I woke up early in the morning, I started the animal I took it announced already for you,

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one after another.

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However, you're supposed to make a sacrifice, after the place has taken place. But this man was so eager to have the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam over

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in the exam as well as VIP member. He says, He saw what this man has in him. So the Messenger of Allah said, of all people, he said, Allah has accepted your sacrifice, however, nobody else has to retake, it has to take place after Allah has taken place, but you must be considered. We have every one of them

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had to come

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up to me and

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said one of you should not be like a beat. You beat your wife during the day and then expect to be intimate with her at night.

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absolute lack of consideration, absolute insensitivity and visitation and that is not the fitting character of a Muslim. A Muslim is supposed to be somebody that is considered.

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Then the other thing is they will see the next seat is what we call compassion.

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And then we use a llama while he was in the afternoon.

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We said Mr. McKeon, one after another

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in seven different instances in the hall and along with the question Mohammed fell in love it was enough as refer to all of my points refer to all that exists. You know what is interesting about this is the following.

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If, unless you are the

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enemy, he is a monkey.

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Kabbalah at Makkah and Medina of how will you as you can tell him, you shall do with Allah, Mohammed

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Salah

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Whoever.

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These are all murky, sort of meaning that they were revealed to the Messenger of Allah before his migration from Mecca to Medina, while his companions have tortured while they're being beaten up where they are killed, Allah insists that Mohammed Salama Hollywood Silla and the Muslim after him. They are people of mercy. primer, for he has attended many celestial Yoku, diamonds or hammelmann in your hammock.

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Be compassionate to those who are on earth with you, the one up in heaven would be counting towards you. That is the spirit of almost we may want to have like a memory of the moment.

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Yesterday Baba Silla said that

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he went to the market to buy to buy something. See brothers and sisters, it's very easy to be compassionate to those who are good to you.

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But being good to them for good does not make you good. The real challenge is how do you behave to those who are not so very good? What do you do that determines whether you are a good person or not? Or if you have a

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will McAfee In

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any case, I believe never comes to the market to buy something. fail me and Maria, who pjb read it under a hula hoop by Pollyanna

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when he went to the market, and he picked what it is that he wanted, he put his hand in his pocket to take up his money. And his money was gone. He said people somebody has stolen my money. Fragile enough.

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So all people, they raised their hand and they kept saying against the person who stole the money.

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How dare you steal from the Companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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Allahumma intern who had your feet or Rahimi along with a dyadic level?

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Among lower internal Blue

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Origin hobbies?

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What does he do? He raised his hands with everybody. But he said something else. Is that all? It does this person who stole my money because he was in dire need of it, all athletes blood.

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They're all like he said, but if he saw it, because he is a thief, or Allah make it the last of this.

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Sometimes we make these things and people could have felt justified in doing this. But real compassion is how do you react to those who are not so very compassionate to you? A person of character does not look for revenge, a person of character looks for something higher than the bench. And then another thing My brother is consistent is confidence. Meaning that you do the right thing, because it's the right thing, regardless of how other people react to you do the right thing.

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Your entertainment

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has had an intern, if that hadn't

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had a clue. Let's move on

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to him. And

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regardless how people react to you just do what is right. Wasn't that there was a man and his words, his boss out of nowhere, just came and gave each and everybody $1,000. a bonus that was not expected at all. And this person felt so good about the $1,000 because they needed at home, they needed it so much. And he know that his wife and his children are going to be so happy when they get the $1,000 when they feed. So he went home, and on the way won't. He was stopped by an old lady, or a lady that looked old. She had a small child on her hand. And she came to me and she said, Sir, my baby is dying. Please help me to get my baby to medication. And the man is thinking to himself, the baby is

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dying. My camel is really going to be happy with the $1,000 What do I do? And he did what he felt was the right thing, took the $1,000 out of his pocket and gave it to the lady and he played for the life and the speedy recovery of that baby. He went home to the children as they are having dinner. He told them the story. And they looked at him and they said you are the stupidest man ever on Earth. This was the silliest decision that you ever made. You know this lady, did you ask for any medical examinations? Did you ask for any prescription? Did you ask for any of that? And he looked at me said but the baby was dying. Then how do you another baby Whoo. Whoo. You're an idiot.

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after they finish their dinner, they're watching TV. And on the evening news, they said a lady was caught by the police because she was cutting people. He was holding a baby going around telling people that the baby is about to die. So they all came back and say see you full. We told you that this lady was cutting you. Did you hear the news? The baby was not dying. He was

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You have to stealing money from people. He looked at them. And he said, this is the best news I have heard throughout the day, the baby's not dying.

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So the baby's not dying. That's the news.

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He was not sad about the $1,000 that he lost. He says, I am so happy that the babies are dying.

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He lost the money. But you know, you did the right thing. Now what if she called you out whether they stole You what? That is not the point. The point is you did what is right. Now what are the other person deserves that whether they deserve, they don't deserve it? That becomes very irrelevant. That becomes very irrelevant. So we as Muslims, it's not like a tip or attack. You do good to me. I do good. You you do, but I will show you Mr. How it is. That's not how you do as a Muslim. We do what

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we do, right? Because it's right, regardless of how other people are going to react to this. Or we have a

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lion

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in Atlanta, and we're in Nashville.

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So that one of you should not just blindly imitate people. When people do good, you will do good. When people do bad he's going to do what you can

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think for yourself,

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for yourself, when people do good, be part of that goodness. When people do not do good, then to not take part of it. And that's what we mean when we say confidence that doing the right thing is the thing that needs to be done. If you don't get rewarded for it today, even if it's not acknowledged. That is never a decade, Apollo COVID

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Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah Mustafa.

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Well, I'm

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having good character requires two more components. And they are control and courage Chugga chugga.

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Well, an unofficial jasha

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insano will follow the

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women and children

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and young people inside Madame Mata kata. And as I

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said, when we talk about courage, we're not talking about courage that is displayed in the battlefield. That's not the kind of courage it is a kind of courage. More important than this type of courage is the moral courage to stand up truly, for what you believe, to stand up for it. And not to just shy away, especially nowadays, we're not necessarily the values the principles that are taught by Hamilton Allahu alayhi wa sallam did not the popular thing to do. This is not what is most popular. So what happens is part of having good character is that knowing your principles are going to be challenged. How do you react when your principles have challenged us stand up, use your moral

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courage. Well, he had a good interview from Allah.

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Allah Allah.

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Allah Allah.

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Muhammad Yunus

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is a writer who outlet happy for him lifting when

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the Bible says governing says do not let your fear of people stop you from doing what is right. Or from, from standing against oppression when you read about it or when you yourself you see for people deposits a lot as an employee, they cannot withhold that would allow us to give you and people cannot bring your day of departure clauses if Allah subhanaw taala did not say it is going to be so. So the point is, have more courage in standing up for what you believe. You want to hear Oh,

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can I see?

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You I never

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said that. You know we have heard that this messenger of your cell Allahu Allah wa sallam, he teach you everything. even teach you how to relieve yourself.

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There will be some casting that what have you learned in your firm that you do yourself? What is elementary? Yeah, but see, I mean, it's true. But let me tell you some explain. He looked at himself.

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Conditional. Is anyone right? The Messenger of Allah does not matter when we do. This is an open area, of course. And then he said and when we clean also who use our lessons, and of the story I'm not ashamed of sharing with you what Muhammad wa sallam taught us. The point is standing up having the moral courage to stand up for the principles and the values that we have. And then finally, brothers and sisters control. By this we mean emotional control.

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being emotionally Why? Because you want to be challenged. A person of character is not a person that is easily provoked, but rather This is the person that is in control. And

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who do you consider to be a person of strength?

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They said O Messenger of Allah, if he was able to wrestle down men, you pin them down. That's even how they do it, you arm wrestle them down, you pin their shoulder down. This is a strong man takadanobaba later,

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one lesson

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isn't that a person is not strong, because they're able to pin down a reference down meant that a person is strong, because they can control themselves when they are provoked or angry.

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A person of character is the person of control

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in all circumstances, control meaning that you're not easily provoked, one of them will be reviled.

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And whenever you have some kind of melamine yahoodi, one time the blessing of Allah wa sallam, he borrowed money from a Jewish man. So as a God and

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God you know, the apostle, the Jewish man came to the mercy of Allah peace be upon him. And he said, Yeah, Mohammed.

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Mohammed, give me my money back to

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Oman

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can pay me back for I know your children?

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I know you you like to defer paying back even though you have the ability to do so. I'm

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so upset. How dare you speak to homosassa live in such a manner, but on the table. Daniel,

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so much, and Obama.

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He's got my first set. Let me deal with this man.

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We're in the Malaika Anthony lm window Malika and

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what I want from you, rather, what I want from you is that you should have said something about me paying him back, and him being nicer when he's here to ask for his thing is

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take him and give him his money. Was it for you, at least imagine this, that I'm gonna have to work with this man. And how much control over has to display he wants to be in a business so bad, but now we can do an under way and

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a shadow Allah.

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And the way he said, I bear witness that nobody is watching for sure, but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is indeed his final messenger. So Emma is also fine. One time you come and you accuse the Messenger of Allah. And now you're saying something else? What's the story

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is that I have studied the character of this man in our own scriptures. Were just to save it. He said that and I found out that all the descriptions about him are there, with the exception of one in our head of another to

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another

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is the Dalai

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Lama. He says that the more you try to provoke him, the more sublime you become, the more calmer you become, the more cooler he becomes, he said. So I came there with the sole intention of provoking him just to see how we react. And that's why we say, good character consists of conscious consideration, compassion, control, and courage. These are so the 60 that we spoken about. And remember, by the end of the day, please pay attention to this, that Islam is a set of beliefs that will be displayed in a set of rituals that will impact the character of the individual that is displayed in your dealings with other people. We have a whole interview, a deal,

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that truly, religion is best manifested, is best explained in the social dealings that we come with other people. Some people say that this is a weak Hadith. Nevertheless, the meaning of it is truly Islamic, even though maybe the perfect alum said it

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does not say we ask a lot of parents Allah to grant us the best of characters to make up of those who are clean and clean inside as well as outside along now

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when a luminary comes

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along as

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well as the gentlemen, one of our heroes,

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