Yousef Bakeer – Your Character is What Matters

I'm about just reciting salata, parts of sudut facilite. And Allah

subhanaw taala says, in Surah facilite were men, Sen or colon,

men men die ilahi wammie lasagna, he says, What's better?

What is something that's more rewarding then there are ill

Allah, calling people to Islam for delivering the message of Islam to

people. In other words, there is absolutely nothing more important

in our lifetime, then delivering the right message of Islam to

people Subhanallah in the last hotbar, the last ceremony of the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Mecca,

about 100,000 Muslims attending this Hotbot last hub of the

Prophet sallallahu wasallam. And after the Prophet sallallahu

Sallam listed all of the points that he wanted to convey to the

OMA to the people that actually were present at the moment, he

told them something very important. He said, Allah fell you

builder al harbor min Kamala. He said, Now since you heard my

words, it becomes a duty and a responsibility on every single one

of you to convey my message to the next generations. So since this

moment, every single Muslim shares that responsibility all of us

giving Dawa are delivering the message of Islam is not limited to

the scholars and the Messiah is not limited to the scholars. It is

a responsibility of every single one's holla if you open but before

I go into this, I want to ask you a question. What is the

ingredient? In that message of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam the fundamental ingredient in the messenger is Dawa. What is

the most essential what's the core of the prophets Allah Salam is Tao

What do you guys think? What was so essential? In the Prophet

sallahu wa Salam is Dawa. How did he conveyed it out? Yes.

Though he that's the reseller. That's the message, right? But

what actually attracted people to Islam, through the prophets, Allah

salah,

his Allah Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, my dear brothers and

sisters. That's why we're saying that Dawa is not limited to the

scholars and Allah and the Imams and the Hotbox and the speeches

and the classes.

delivering the message of Islam through good character, the

prophets, Allah Salam had an exceptional character,

the way he deals with others, his integrity, his patience, his

honesty, his his his way of dealing with the poor with the

needy, that will actually attract people to the ilaha illAllah

Muhammad Rasul Allah, which is the message. Now, if you open any

Factbook, any Kitab flick, you will find that first sections the

first section is Kitab taharah purification, then Salah then cm

then Hajj. And then there is a whole section that's called ficou

l Moi, mellette ficou Elmo and mellette the thick of the

interaction with others under this you will find how to get married

how to get divorced how to get hola how to deal with business

transactions, everything that has to do with human interaction

that's a fundamental section in quotable fell in the books of why

because this is the core of our religion Prophet sallallahu sallam

said the Hadith reported by Abu Huraira Allah and when I read it

that hadith he said in nama Boris to leave 10 Me mana caramel

o'clock. I am here to perfect, a good character Subhan Allah a

couple of days ago.

That one inspired me to talk about today about this subject today. A

brother who wanted to sell out his car.

So he listed up his car on Facebook marketplace. And he has a

has put an amount for his car. He said I want to sell my car for for

$18,000. He listed his car up. Somebody reached out to him he

wanted to buy this car from him. This brother is Muslim. And the

one who is you know, the buyer is not Muslim. So the guy came to

him, checked out the car. He loved the car. He wanted the car. So he

said you know I want to buy the car from you

There is a problem, the bank is closing in five minutes. So it

looks like we're not going to be able to actually make the

transaction Now, what if we actually make that transaction

tomorrow? So the Muslim brother told him, Okay, I will actually

come tomorrow, and we will get the deal done. But the buyer got a

little bit worried that maybe the Muslim can get a better deal, so

he can actually sell out his car. So he told him, Do you? Do you

promise me? Would you promise me that you will keep your car for

me? And the Muslim brother told him yes, I promise you that I will

keep the car for you until tomorrow. Because I cos they left,

the buyer got a little worried he really wanted to know if the

seller would actually sell the car if he gets a better offer. So he

actually logged in from different account on Facebook and reached

out to him and told him I want to buy your car for $20,000.

So that the Muslim brother responded to his text, and he

didn't know he did not know that he's the same person. He told him,

I'm sorry, but the car is taken the car is sold.

The next day,

the non Muslim brother came to, to the to the seller here to the

Muslim and told them, you know,

it was so interesting seeing you rejecting an offer that's actually

higher, you can easily make a couple of $1,000 on the spot. Why

would you even do that.

And the Muslim told them, there is nothing really special I did. The

Prophet, our Prophet, he has taught us to be a man with Word.

If I promised you something, I will keep my word. It's as simple

as this, by Allah, this, this non Muslim brother May Allah subhanaw

taala guide him, while Allah he says that day his he kept

searching about who this messenger is, who this prophet is, that will

have an impact on his followers to the point that they will reject

money. You know, like in corporate, or in the in the world

that we live in. Now, money is, you know, something that is not

negotiable, money and character, I will pick the money, this is how

it is now. And so seeing something seeing somebody who's actually,

you know, sticking to his values, and the character of the prophets

of Allah and embodying the character of Prophet sallallahu

sallam was actually bizarre in the time and life that we live in

right now. So my dear brothers and sisters, Allah He that is, that is

the best way of delivering Islam to others. No matter how not how

much knowledge you have, maybe you have no knowledge at all, maybe

you have tons of knowledge, if your actions if you action

actions, matching the values and the principles of Islam, Wallahi,

that will be the fastest way to attract every single one who lives

in this planet to Islam. This is a fact. And we've seen this

throughout the history just for the sake of time, there is a paper

by the European Institute, beautiful paper actually asked

everybody to check it out and how Islam grew, how people were

attracted to Islam, one of these, you know, ways, essential ways

that attracted many pupils to Islam is through teacher business.

You know, like in corporate, they say they have a whole thing that's

called work ethics. It's basically Islamic values. You know, because

we live in a time that we're desperate to see somebody with

good character. We were trying now to instill laws, just to make sure

that people have honesty, and people have integrity. We are

carrying this message. And what's so unique about it that this

message doesn't change throughout time. You know, regardless of the

society changes, regardless of the people changes, regardless of the

ethnicity, regardless of the peoples nationalities, this

message is the same.

That's that is something so unique and powerful, and that's what's

attracting people to Islam. May Allah subhanaw taala make me and

you among those who will be ambassadors of la ilaha illAllah

Muhammad Rasul Allah just icon located on wa salaam aleikum wa

rahmatullah wa barakato.