 لحمده ونسبحه ونقدسه على ألائه ونعمائه ونشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأن سيدنا محمدا عبده ورسوله أرسله في الهداوة دين الحب وخيره على الدين كله ظهر مصلي وسلم وبارك وترحم على محمد وآل محمد كأفضل ما صليت وسلمت وباركت وترحمت على إبراهيم وآل إبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد المجين وصلى الله وسلم على خلفاء نبيك وأوصيائه وأهل بيته وأحبته علياً أمير المؤمنين وقائد النور المحجلين وعلى البضعة الطاهرة فاطمة الزهراء سيدة نساء العالمين وعلى سبطي نبي الرحمة وسيدة شباب أهل الجنة الحسن والحسين عليهم السلام وعلى عليي بن الحسين ومحمد بن عليي وجعفر بن محمد وموسى بن جعفر وعلي بن موسى ومحمد بن علي وعلي بن محمد والحسن بن علي والخلف الهادي المهدي أجل الله تعالى فرجه وسهل مخرجه وجعلنا من أنصاره وعوانه عباد الله وصيكم وأصي نفسي المقصرة المؤمنبة بتقوى الله والزوم أمره رويا عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال ليه الناس من حسن منكم في هذا الشهر خلقه كان له جواز على السواطي يوم متزل فيه الأقدام ومحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول أنه يستطيع أنه يستطيع أن يستطيع أن يساعد أنه يساعد أنه يساعد أنه يساعد في هذا الشهر خلقه ثم يتعب with the visa and the passport. I don't know whether they give multiple or one visa. To paradise on a day where many feet are going to slip from the surat, from that bridge. Many of them are going to slip, but you are not going to slip. If you improve your manners, your morals during these 30 days and nights during this intense season of devotion and dedication and piety. When we ask the American people, ask us about Ramadan. What do you do in Ramadan? We say we don't eat. Wow great if we don't eat. Even no water, we tell them no, no water. They get really sharp. You don't drink anything and you can survive. Try it and you can see. If you have resolve, you can do anything. But this is not the essence of fasting. Abstaining from eating and drinking is not the entire story about fasting. What is the entire story? There is something hidden beneath that. This is the surface. What is hidden is If we can improve our relations. What is Akhlaab my friend? Akhlaab is the way you deal with people around you. Be it family members, be it friends, be it strangers. People that you know, people that you don't know. Muslims, non-Muslims. The way you deal with them, how do you deal? This is very important. How do you respond? How do you reach out to others? How do you answer your father and your mother if they call you? How do you deal with your children, with your wife, with your husband, with your neighbor, with your co-worker? How do you deal with them? This is Akhlaab. If you deal with them with humility, tolerance, forbearance, smile, kindness, then that's it. This is the essence of Ramadan. It is a season of the training. Training to our inner self, to our attitude. The way you speak to people. How do you speak? How do you address? How do you talk about them while they are not there? Do you backbite? Do you demolish them when they are not present? When you see them, you smile on their face, you welcome them, but when they are not there, you try to demolish them. This is not Islamic attitude. This is not the spirit of Ramadan. We have to learn, number one, not to judge people. Not to judge people. No one is perfect on earth except the Ambiya and the Imam. And those who are made perfect by God for a specific reason that you all know. Other than that, we are human. What does it mean to be human? It means that I am susceptible to mistakes, to faults, to wrongs. So we should not judge people. We should give them the benefit of the doubt. Even if they do something wrong, we have to encourage them. Because if you keep rebuking people, they are not going to come to you. And they are not going to go to God. If God only speaks in his book about Hellfire, no one is going to believe in him. No one is going to worship him. They tell him okay. Anyway, they are going to put me in the Hellfire. So why should I pray? Why should I come to you? Because he speaks about Paradise. And the verses that speaks about reward and Paradise, much more than those that speak about punishment. This is how we should speak about people. In the presence as well as the absence. It's a month of togetherness. We should pull the community together, the family together. If a family does not speak to each other, they are scattered, then in this month the father of the family, the mother of the family, which is the center of compassion and love, they should bring the family together. The cousins together. The extended family together. The community. In the community there are some people who are unhappy about others. I've seen in this community, in this Masjid, in our community. But in the month of Ramadan, should they bring us together? Why? Because it's a reminder that we are not going to stay in this life forever. One day we have to leave. How many people were with us last Ramadan and now no longer with us? How many people? Only in this area, in this Masjid. How many? Many of them. Many of them are with God now. In the hands of God. We have to remember that we are not staying here, my friends. So let's leave a good legacy. A good legacy. A legacy of good relationship. Building relationship. This life, it's not worth it to fight over anything. Believe me. Over anything. Let alone something trivial, something small. من حسنا منكم خلقه. Let me conclude with a Hadith narrated by the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. No. ويعنه أنه قال عليكم بحسنا الخلق. You have to hold on to good temperament. Good temperament. حسنا الخلق. فإن حسنا الخلق في الجنة نا محالة. Definitely. No doubt about it. حسنا الخلق. A good temperament is going to take you straight to paradise. وإياكم stay away وسوء الخلق. Avoid it. Avoid bad temperament. Avoid suspicion. Avoid being angry at people. Being jealous of people. Avoid these things. Avoid greed. Avoid bad biting, slandering. نا جيب الناس. Avoid these things. These are the bad temperament. Why? فإن نسوء الخلق في النار لامحالة. It's going to take you straight with carpool without the traffic to Jahannam. That's the result. Even if you pray. Even if you fast. Even if you stand, piamon, lay. Even if you read the Quran many times during Ramadan. If you have bad temperament, suspicion about people. You dislike people. You are jealous. You hate this. You cannot tolerate this. You cannot accept this. These things are not going to help you. Fasting is not going to help you. You are missing the point of fasting. Because the Prophet himself says روح عنه أنه قاعد. أو عن أحد الأئم علي مقصر. كم من قائم الليسة له من قيامي إلا السهر والتعب. و كم من صائم الليسة له من صيامي إلا الجرول أطش. كم من الناس يقومون بحيث. يقومون بحيث. They get nothing but exhaustion. No spiritual remorse out of their prayers. And how many people they fast the whole month, but they get nothing other than starvation and thirst. They get no reward. Because they don't change. Their fasting and their prayers are only mechanical. Not spiritual. Mechanical. This is the problem. When we don't understand the philosophy of fasting. The reason why we fast. The wisdom of fasting. We miss it all. We don't get anything. So this is the month. This is the season. I advise myself first. And my loved ones. And you are my family. I've been with you for 21 years now. And I love you. And I always, as I said last night here on the podium. The ideal Shi'a community is not the one that only fasts or prays. The ideal Shi'a community that makes God happy and the Prophet happy and our Imam happy and our 12 Imam happy is the one that stays together and helps each other. That is the ideal community. اللهم اخبروا المؤمنين والمؤمنات. والمسلمين والمسلمات. الاحياء منهم والأموات. تابع اللهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيرات. إنك مجي والدعوات. إنك غافر الخضيات. إنك ماح السيئات. وجعلها حصلات. إنك على كل شيء.