 We are back on these blessed nights of Ramadan, continuing on the discussion on the 10 habits of successful people, those who attend success in the dunya in the Akhira in accordance to the great sage, Shkhaj Abdullah Al-Ansari, who died in 481 of Hijri calendar. We talked about the first few, we talked about being truthful with Allah SWT and being a really with anger, deal with anger when it comes to your own nafs. We also talked about the other aspect of how to deal with friends and how to deal with enemies. So now we're going to talk about two other things. Number one, he says, Bauddhar vishon basa khawad, with poor people deal with them in a way of generosity. Generosity is a virtue in Islam. It's a virtue in every traditional, even if you look at Aristotle talks about generosity as a virtue. Although it is not a categorical virtue, it goes under the category of shaja, of bravery, because you have to be brave in order to give out. And Islam is one of the virtues that everyone really honors those people who are generous Allah loves the generous people. And there's a beautiful tradition that Abulaysa Samarkand mentioned in his book, narrates this tradition that says, as shaja, as sakhawa, shajaratun asuloha fi l-jannah wa aqsanuha mutadalliyatun fi dunya, fa man ta'alliqa bi-ghutnin minha madduhu ilal-jannah, that generosity is a tree, and its roots are in paradise, and its branches have extended over the earth. Whoever holds on to the branches of this tree of generosity, it will pull them into paradise. And this is the nature of the people of generosity that they can actually purchase paradise just by being generous. And generosity should be in accordance to your standard of living, not in accordance of those people who are asking. So if a beggar is asking you for 50 cents or a dollar, and you're a millionaire, you should give more. You should give in accordance to your ability, not in accordance to the asking, the person asking. And generous people in every society and every culture, their honor, whether they're Muslim societies or non-Muslim societies, everybody honors generous people. And there's a beautiful tradition of a man who used to forgive people because of his generosity. He was a rich man who used to lend money to people, and when he used to send his admin to go pick up the money from these people, so this person, his servant would go and ask the people that said, my master said, give me the money that you owe and that you borrowed from me. And the person would say, just tell me, well, I don't have any money right now, if he can. And out of his generosity, he would forgive people, he would say, you know what, I forgive him, it's okay, let him go. And on the day of judgment, that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala tells him that you forgive all those people out of your generosity, you think I'm going to let you be more generous than I am, be more forgiving than I am, so I'll forgive you and you can enter paradise. And that's a beautiful hadith to remember when it comes to generosity and forgiving people. The next thing that he says, he says, boh johelon besakut, would ignorant people deal with them in silence. One of the things about ignorant people is that you can't argue with them. Mark Twain, the great American philosopher thinker, he said, don't argue with a fool. Don't argue with a fool because they will drag you down to their level and then they will defeat you with experience. Because when you start arguing with the fools, you go down to their level, you will not be able to elevate them to your level. And once you go down to their level, you'll be a loser because you can't defeat them, they have years of experience. So do not, the Quran is very clear, where the khatabuhumul jahelun qalu salamah, when you come across with ignorant people, say peace and walk away. Just say peace and walk away. In other words, argumentation with these people, there's no use. And for us as believers, we're supposed to say that which is beautiful. The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, mankana yu'minu billahi wal yawmi al-akhir, fal yaqul khayran awliyasmu. In another narration, awliyaskut. Whoever believes in Allah in the last day, they say that which is beautiful or they keep in silent and shut their mouth. You know, just don't say anything unless it's beautiful and good. Because words have an effect on people. So when you come across with ignorant people, with fools, just deal with them with silence and you will be amongst the people who are successful in the dunya because you're not wasting your time and you'll be successful in akhira because you're obeying the commandment of Allah that you said peace and you walked away. May Allah give us the ability to be amongst the people of generosity and amongst the people who when we come across ignoring people, we say peace and walk away. JazakAllah khayran. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.