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Stand Steadfastly For Justice - Shaykh Faraz Rabbani - Friday sermon @ Occupy Toronto 28Oct2011

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Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, the Executive Director of SeekersHub (http://www.SeekersHub.org) and Educational Director of SeekersGuidance (http://www.SeekersGuidance.org) was invited to deliver the Friday Prayers Sermon on October 28, 2011 at St. James Park - the site of the Occupy Toronto movement.

The following is taken from the closing remarks of the sermon:

Seven Counsels in Closing:

1. Be steadfastly committed to justice and excellence in your own life: fulfill the rights of God and God's creation, with sincerity, concern, and excellence of character.
2. Be particularly careful about the rights of your parents, spouse/partner, children--then family, friends, neighbours, and community--then those wronged (whoever/whatever).
3. Ignore mass media: focus on becoming an informed citizen--so that you can seek, spread, and safeguard justice and excellence--the beautiful balance.
4. Money matters: look carefully at how you spend your money... make ethical, informed choices--promoting justice and excellence...
5. Time matters: don't become a mere consumer... consuming products and entertainment and infotainment. "Two blessings many lose out on: health and free time." - Spend your time in seeking justice and excellence... family, friends, neighborhood, society....
6. Your life matters: don't just be a slave in the corporate jungle... seek to make your work a promotion of justice & excellence; work of benefit and meaning. Work with purpose. Relate with purpose. From our tradition: working on one's own terms...
7. Do this for God; do this seeking Mercy; do this out of sincere concern....

What do we seek? Balance of Justice (`adl) and Excellence (ihsan). That is what makes life beautiful.

And indeed God is Beautiful, and loves Beauty.

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