 We praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the one that has chosen Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam over all of humanity and we bear witness that there is no god no deity worthy of worship other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we associate no partners with him and we bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa la alihi wa sallam is his servant and his messenger and I encourage and give advice first and foremost to my own self and to my brothers and to my sisters and my elders and teachers and young and that are here to have god consciousness taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fear of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in both privacy and in public and that we should beautify our souls with the love of his beloved sallallahu alaihi wa la alihi wa sallam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says I was not sent but to perfect not just good character but noble character sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he says it is my lord who has taught me comportment it is my lord that directly has taught me my adab my character so I have the best of characters and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala validates that in the ayah of the Qur'an when he says Muhammad you are on exalted character and this sentence this ayah in the Qur'an it's a nominal sentence starts with the noun so just to be a nominal sentence it's one degree of strength and then on top of that it starts with ismu inna inna is for tashdeed for taqee to show that it's even stronger and then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said ala but he said la ala he uses lama taqee to again stress and then on top of that it's not on the khulq it's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on top of that then he says oh Muhammad you're upon khulq in adheem not just regular character exalted character but here is exalted character and here you are oh Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam so you're above the exalted character in akhlaq is the plural of the word khulq and it comes from the word khalaqa khulq is the creation Allah is the khulq he creates the khulq our outer beings is the khulq khulq or akhlaq is our inner beings that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created that inner being that interacts with people that had the heart that has mercy that has compassion that has forgiveness that has all of these things encompassed in this word akhlaq that akhlaq directly comes from al khalq and when it's in line with the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the tenets of our deen islam it is good akhlaq and when it is otherwise then it is bad akhlaq and the greatest of things is to have good akhlaq and there's three categories of akhlaq first that we have akhlaq with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has to contain this akhlaq first and foremost and an extension with the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wasallam and then there's akhlaq between humanity between one another this is something that inshallah i want to focus on today and then there's akhlaq with yourself akhlaq with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is to love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to to approach Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with akhlaq is to approach Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with the sunnah of the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi where the Kitab Allah the book of Allah is the law the sunnah is the approach that you come to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when you come into a court of law in this country you can't come in with your with your tank top or with a hat on or with sandals and you can't be in contempt of court by just speaking out of turn there's a way to come to the qadi and there's a come a way to come to the qadi in that way is to the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that you have husna zun a good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that there is la ta'alim akhluq fimaasiyatullah that there is no obedience to the creation when it's disobeying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then an extension to that there's respect in akhlaq with the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in surah khujrat he says oh you who believe oh you believers do not put yourselves before Allah and his messenger meaning what whoever obeys the messenger obeys Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala whoever disobeys the messenger disobeys Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that literally he is the ambassador of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on this earth and then in the second next verse he says oh you believers do not raise your voices above the voice of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and do not call on him and speak to him in loud voices that you do with one another that if you do maybe you will lose all of your good a'mal all of your good deeds and you might not even know it and you will be bankrupt and Imam Malik radi allahu ta'ala and who says about this ayah he says this extends to when somebody is narrating a hadith even in this day and age somebody says a hadith have respect that those words are the words of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam do not speak over those words do not disrespect those words that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala might take you to account that any good that you may have maybe taken away from you and what is good akhlaq is good akhlaq when somebody is really good to you and they're kind to you and they're taking you out to dinner all the time and they're nice and you're good to that person is that good akhlaq maybe a little bit but true good akhlaq dolemah says is when you treat people well that treats you bad that is the that is the epitome of akhlaq and that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says to return an evil to return something that is evil with something that is better something that is much better luqman al haqeem he was an Ethiopian carpenter he was a man he was a servant of this other man and the man says to luqman he says ya luqman sacrifice this sheep and then bring me the two best parts of the sheep so luqman he sacrifices it and then he brings this man his sahib his owner he brings him the tongue and the heart of the sheep and then some time passes by and he says ya luqman it's time for another sacrifice sacrifice the sheep this time bring me the two worst part of the sheep so luqman sacrifices the sheep and again brings the heart and the tongue and he says ya luqman i tell you to sacrifice me this sheep and bring me the two best parts and you bring me the tongue and the heart and when i say you bring me the two worst parts you bring me still the the tongue and the heart kafa haza how was this and luqman says to him when these two things are good it's the best of things and when these two things are corrupt it's the worst of things so it's about how you treat people in the in in in surah a araf allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says keep to forgiveness and enjoying kindness and turn away from the ignorant so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he says to gibreel and in imama in imama suya jalal adina suyuti in his tafseer brings a brings a hadith about this ayah where uh on jaber radi allahu ta'ala anhu in jabra says the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he spoke to gibreel alaihi sallam of course it's a private conversation it's wahi it's revelation so everybody's not hearing this so the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam spoke to gibreel and he says to gibreel ya gibreel what is the meaning of this ayah gibreel so gibreel says i will go and ask the one that knows so he goes and he ascends into the heavens and he comes back and he says so he says oh muhammad this ayah means allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has commanded you to forgive those who have that oppress you and to give to those who will not give to you and to reconcile and make ties with those who break ties with you so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam turns to the sahaba when he gets this news and he says should i not guide you make you aware of the noblest of the most honorable to have in this world in the next and the sahaba say they sahaba say wama zaki ya rasulullah and what is that oh messenger of god sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he says to forgive those that oppress you to give to those who will not give to you and to make ties with those who break ties with you that this whole religion alhamdulillah is about good character and good character the essence of it is love the essence of it again is ithar we spoke about that and then what is who is the most deserving there's a precedence after allah and his messenger a man comes to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ya rasulullah man who is the most deserving who has the most rights upon me umuq your mother thumma man umuq your mother thumma man umuq your mother thumma man ya rasulullah abouk he says your mother your mother your mother three times has rights over you then who your father and the interpretation of this is umuq the first right of the mother that she carries you in her womb for nine months and goes through the pains of carrying you the sleepless nights the back aches the hip pain and then the pains of labor when your mother gives birth to you that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says in order to equate yourself to that birth that pain that she feels a man has to die as a martyr on the battlefield that will equate you with the pain that your mother feels and then the third thing that your mother after she gives birth to you for two years she's the one that's weaning you in feeding you and this is the three rights of the mother that is explained from this hadid and then abu hanif ar-rahmat allah ala had so much respect for his parents he had a two floor home he would never go on the top floor because he was too afraid of his feet being over his mother his mother would ask him a fiki question his mother and father would ask him a question about the religion ya abu hanifa what is the answer to this an ala adri i don't know and then he would leave and he would tell one of his students my parents asked such a such a question could you please go back in a polite way answer them because he deemed it to be disrespectful to be teaching his mother and father to look at them as like oh i am teaching you and should not and should they not deserve the most honor and most akhlaq from us aren't parents those people who teach the ones that they can't live without to live without them they teach the ones that they can't live without to live without them and this is the maqam of the parents and then the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says the best of you the most complete of the believers in faith are those with the most excellent character the most excellent akhlaq and the best of you are the best in behavior to their women that the best from amongst you are the ones that are best to their families and i am the best from amongst you he said and i am good to mine and this an extension is not only for the wife to the husband the husband to the wife to the children that the family unit in akhlaq and the family unit is one of the most important things and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam goes on and he talks about the one that does not have respect for our elders the one that doesn't have mercy for our youngen they're not even from us he says lesa minna if you don't have respect for your elders and we see what's going on today and you don't have mercy for the young the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says you are not from us he was a man sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that respected elders anytime he sent somebody on an expedition when they would come back if there was an elder among them he would tell the youngens to stay quiet and let the elder person speak first when he would extend his hands to shake with somebody he would never take his hand back until that other person took their hand back if somebody greeted him with a salam assalamu alayka ya rasulullah he would return with a better greeting wa alaykum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh a better greeting he never pointed his finger at anyone ever to show like when you point your finger at somebody and when you point to a direction he would do it with his own hand with his whole hand sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he never extended his feet towards anyone ever he wasn't that executive that sat on the desk and put his hand put his feet on the table as people walked in never abadan he never ever extended his feet lay down in front of people where his feet were pointing in their face sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he loved children he was compassionate he when he told somebody something and he made an appointment with him he would show up to that place at the same at the time that he's that that he had made that appointment with that person one man he should he made he made him said meet me at such and such a place at such and such a time the man didn't show up he showed up the Prophet said I'm three days in a row just in case that man shows up and says the Prophet did not show up sallallahu alayhi wa sallam because he knew he said when you are always late to a meeting when you don't show up to something it is a sign of kibir and arrogance because you deem your time more important than that other person's time so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one time a man comes to him of a faqir an old man very poor man and he wants to give a gift to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so he brings a few grapes a shingle of grapes to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so he says yara sallallahu alayhi wa sallam this is a gift for you so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is with this ashab he's sitting down and he thanks the man and he takes the grapes he starts eating them one by one and he just smiling at this man and he finishes all the grapes and he thanks the man gives makes do off from the man leaves the sahaba sitting around the Prophet says they're a little confused yara sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we have never seen it where you don't share anything you know you can usually give us you know baraka from your hand yara sallallahu alayhi wa sallam what what happened and he said and he laughed and he said these grapes were very sour and I was afraid that if one of you ate it you would make a face and he would know and you would hurt his feelings sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one time he comes and he hugs Sayyidina Bilal from the back when Anna who am I Sayyidina Bilal read your love to Ali and he says Abu Bakr he says la he says Omar he says la he says Osman la Ali la and he says oh oh Bilal you didn't know it was me and he said yara sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I knew it was you the minute you came close to me but I just wanted you to hold me longer and this is this is the Prophet of God sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a prophetic love that is placed within him divinely by our Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala noble character Abu Abu Idris al-Khalawani from the Tabi'een who is a new convert to Islam and he comes into the Umayyad mosque masjid this is after the passing of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and there's a young man speaking about the age of 40s in his 40s and Abu Idris al-Khalawani says the second that I saw this man inside the mosque and this man was speaking and everybody was kind of asking him questions and he says and he comes in he's a young man he's a convert he says the minute I saw this man and how bright and noble his face was he says love for him entered my heart immediately so I asked a couple of people around me who is this man and they said Allah ta'arif has a sahib al-Rasood Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Mu'ad ibn Jabal they said you don't know this man this is the sahib this is the companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Mu'ad ibn Jabal and he says subhanallah I have to get to know this man so he goes into the masjid at night in the middle of the night he says you know what I'm gonna wait here until morning time and when Mu'ad ibn Jabal radi allahu ta'ala Anu comes in I'm gonna be the first one to greet him and get to know him so he goes into the masjid in the omayid masjid to wait for him and lo and behold saying the Mu'ad he's already there praying behind one of the pillars Qiyamul Layl he's praying to Hajj so he patiently goes and he waits by him and he waits by him until he's done he makes salam and he comes around the pillar and he says to him assalamu alayka wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh he says salama he says wa alaykum assalam and then the next word out of his mouth he says wallahi inna li hubbik he says wallahi I love you he says wallahi I love you and saying the Mu'ad looks at him and says fi sabilullah he said for the sake of Allah do you love me for the sake of Allah and the man says ajal yes for the sake of Allah and he says tuxim fi sabilullah he says swear for the sake of Allah and he says naam for the sake of Allah he says tuxim swear for the sake of Allah he says naam for the sake of Allah three times he questions them and then when he says three times yes for the sake of Allah he grabs the man by his by his shirt by his collar and he pulls him and he says abshir fa inni samaatu rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam yaqool qaalallahu ta'ala wajabat muhabbati limutahabi nafiyya he says that abshir rejoice because I heard the messenger of God sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said my love becomes obligatory for those who love one another for my sake my love Allah says becomes obligatory for the one who loves each other for my sake a bed when it comes to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he's walking with Sayyidina Ali radiyallahu ta'ala anhu and all of us and he says ya Muhammad we all became Muslim and here we are and you promised us prosperity my tribe is starving and people are leaving Islam give me something to take back to increase their iman so they will not stop so they will stop leaving Islam and just at that moment say he's concurring with he's making his tishara consultation with Sayyidina Ali what do we have this and that and they really don't have anything and this Jewish man comes by this Jewish man comes by and he says ya Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says I will give you a loan this man needs it I will give you a loan so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam agrees some time passes by and Sayyidina Ali and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam were walking again and this man shows up and he comes up to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and all of a sudden he grabs him by the collar he grabs him by the collar and he pulls it and he even makes a mark on his noble neck sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he says to him ya Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says you people take loans you take money but you never give it back what is wrong with you Sayyidina Umar radiallahu ta'ala Anhu he's walking towards him at this point at this time and he comes running with this sword did I just hear what you said to the Prophet of God and he's about to strike and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says ya Umar stop he stops and he says first of all Umar you should give me advice to pay my debts and then Umar you should give him advice to be a little more cordial and gentle when asking for his money now the term of the contract wasn't even up he came early and did this the loan wasn't even due for another week or so so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says to Sayyidina Umar ya Umar take this man to the bayt al-mal we take him to the treasury now we have some some money some mal and give him his his debt back and Umar give him something extra for the fear that you caused in his heart so Sayyidina Umar you know he's really annoyed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says he's walking with this man and this man asks while they're walking he says ya Umar Allah ta'ala ta'ala do you not know who I am do you not know me he said he said no Allah I don't know you I mean he says I'm a Zaid Ibn Suqna I'm Zaid Ibn Suqna and then Sayyidina Umar sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says wait Zaid aren't you the rabbi scholar he says yes Umar I'm the rabbi scholar he says will shame on you how could you treat the Prophet of God you're a scholar of your religion and you're and you don't have and you lack this much character and he says ya Umar we have been reading about the last prophet in our books ya Umar and everything matched but there was two attributes of this man that I had to test ya Umar and I came so ya Umar and I noticed yasbaqa hilmuhu jaluhu wa la tazeeda shiddate jahlia alayhi alayhi il-hilma and I noticed the last two attributes that his patience and his forbearance surpasses his anger and the more you aggravate him and the more you try to anger him he becomes calmer and more composed ya Umar I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God ya Umar and Umar I don't need my debt back and whatever I have I have given for the sake of this man this is the akhlaq of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in last the story of Sayyidina Thumamah ibn Uthal who was the leader of the armies of Najd from the chief he was a chieftain of the Banu Hanifa and one of the rulers of al-Yamaama one of the most powerful pre-islamic chieftains that there was and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sent him and eight other chieftains letters to to give them that to invite them to Islam so this man took the letter and ripped it up and he took an oath that he's going to kill the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and not only that he killed some of the ashab he had killed many ashab and some of the battles not too soon after that this man gets captured and they bring him to masjid nabawi and they when they bring him to masjid nabawi they don't even know who he is but they have they're waiting to show him to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the minute the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sees him he says don't you all recognize this man you know Yadusullah who is this has a Thumamah ibn Uthal this is Thumamah ibn Uthal Haidun Najd he's the leader of those of those people of those armies and they're like Yadusullah they want him he's been what he's wanted because he's one of the main enemies he says what should we do Yadusullah he says take him to masjid nabawi and right where we pray in that area by one of the pillars make sure that he gets fed make sure that he bades make sure you give them him clothes and make sure that he's comfortable so they take him there and for three days this man Thumamah is sitting there and he's seeing that the ashab bring them food and he watches them and he watches that the food that the ashab are eating are worse than the food that then he's eating he's eating the good food they're eating they're eating something much less and he got they got he they've given him better clothes than they're wearing and the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam comes in every single day and leaves them in prayer and asks how he is and is kind to him and at the end of every night he asks Thumamah he says Ya Thumamah ala tooslem al yawm will you not become muslim today? Ya Muhammad la Aslam I will not become muslim Ya Muhammad so next day passes by again leaves prayer checks on him asks the man Ya Thumamah ala tooslem al yawm will you not become muslim today now Muhammad Khalini leave me alone I will not become muslim third day same thing he doesn't become muslim so the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says release him let him let him go and the asabi Rasulullah this man he's our enemy he's gonna you know he's killed a lot he's gonna kill more people just let him go so they let him go and he walks off and he gets to the distance of where genital baki is probably about a 100 or 200 yards like the size of two football fields distance and he stops and there's some water there and he washes up and then he starts marching back towards the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam just he's marching back and thus how about worried like what's going on this man is coming back we just released him is he gonna attack what is he doing and he comes up to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam standing there just smiling looking at him and he's looking at him and the man says to him yeah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam before i saw you in these last couple of days you were the most hated detested person to me in this entire world world but afterwards you have become the most beloved person to me and oh Muhammad when you asked me that first day if i wanted to become muslim i wanted to say yes but i did not want people to think that i became muslim for my freedom so i say now to you that i've got my freedom yeah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the prophet says should i not inform you of the most beloved to me and the closest to my assembly on the day of judgment those with the best characters nothing is heavier upon the scales of a believer on the day of resurrection than his good character and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says he says by the one that my the mind soul is in his hands that none of you will enter jannah unless you believe and none of you will believe unless you love one another should i not advise you of a thing that if you all do it that you will love one another and he says yes he said send peace and blessings on one another send salam on one another