 Allah SWT says in the Qur'an وما أرسلناك إلا رحمة اللي العالمين That we did not send you a Muhammad except as a mercy into all the worlds that the the Prophet ﷺ is the greatest manifestation of the compassion the Rahma of the indiscriminately compassionate of Rahman It is our master Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He said in a hadith and there's some weakness in the Senate of the hadith but our ulama quoted a sound in its meeting With the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said ad-dabbani rabbi fa'ahsanate adibi that my Lord has Disciplined me trained me educated me and how how excellent is my education that the Prophet's Tarbiya is Rabbaniya. He has a lordly upbringing So just as Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is the most in the most compassionate and the most forgiving he has trained and disciplined and Commanded his messenger sallallahu alayhi sallam to be a paragon of Compassion and forgiveness to reflect those divine attributes at the level of a human being Thus the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is the Abdullah par excellence a perfect Servant of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Fa'uha ila abdihi ma'uha a uniquely sanctified human agent of the divine Compassion and forgiveness are core virtues in the broader. What's known as the Abrahamic tradition it is reported that David peace be upon him said in the Psalms Psalm 145 verse 9 in the Hebrew language He said tov adonai li kul that the Lord is good to all The rakhamaev al kul ma'a saev and that his mercy or compassion his Rahmah is over all of his actions Or to put it Quranic lebo rahmati wasi ad kulla shei that my mercy encompasses Everything and Matthew chapter 9 Eesa alayhi sallam is reported to have said Speaking to the Pharisees he says to them go and learn what this text means and then he actually quotes From the written Torah and this is very interesting because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Quran that Eesa alayhi sallam said Musad de qalima beina yadayya minat Torah that he confirms The Torah so he says key chassid khafats di valozevah vadaat ilohin meoloth I Require mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings And this is interesting because according to Christianity at least Trinitarian Christianity God himself sacrificed himself For our sins By performing this act of self-immolation or vicarious atonement now This is not the teaching of Eesa alayhi sallam even according to Matthew's gospel where Jesus quotes from the Old Testament And certainly this is not the teaching of the Old Testament that I require mercy Mercy Rahmah not sacrifice God requires mercy and he has inscribed upon Mercy he has inscribed mercy upon his own self will cut the barabakum on a Nafsih of Rahmah As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam being that human reflection of the names and names and Attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at a human level. He says I'm a Nabi of Rahmah I am the Prophet of mercy. I'm a rahmatun. I'm a rahmatun muhdah. I am a gifted mercy He said sallallahu alayhi sallam in a hadith of musnad Ahmed Irhamu man fir ardi, irhamu kum or yarham kum man fissamah Show compassion and mercy to those on the earth and the one in heaven and no anthropomorphic sense will show you mercy With respect to forgiveness Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the famous hadith Qutzi, which is related by Imam al-Tirmidhi Where he says ya Ibn Adam. Oh child of Adam Inna kama de'autani warajautani ghaffartu lak'alama kana mink wa la'ubali Beautiful hadith Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaking upon the tongue of our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi sallam the first person But not Quran hadith Qutzi a sacred hadith Where he says oh child of Adam as long as you have hope in me and call upon me I will forgive you wa la'ubali and I don't mind. I don't mind forgiving you in a tradition related by Ibn-u-Hibban We were told that at the battle of Badr during the actual battle of sorry the battle of Urhud During the actual Ghazwat Urhud when there was blood streaming down the face of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi sallam He raised his hands and he said Allahumma aegh fir li qawmi Inna humla ya'lamun. Oh my lord forgive me. Oh my lord forgive them forgive my people for they don't know For they don't know this was during the battlefield when people are trying to kill him There's something similar attributed by the way to Issa alayhi sallam in the New Testament The Gospel of Luke 23 34 where Jesus forgives his father forgive them for they know not what they do Did you know that this statement attributed to Issa alayhi sallam in the Gospel of Luke is? universally recognized as a Fabrication to the Gospel of Luke by almost all New Testament Critics, but what is more authentic is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam when he came into Mecca Right, and he's fully within his rights to extract vengeance What did he say quoting Yusuf alayhi sallam from the Quran la tafriba alaykum ulyom. Yeah, we're gonna come There's no blemish on you today. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has forgiven you What are my favorite hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam a hadith that gives me a lot of hope is Related by Imam and now we when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was in the Masjid after the congregational prayer and a man came to him and said Yeah, Rasulullah. I have reached the boundaries of the permissibility of the permissible according to the Quran fa Aqim fi a fi fi fa aqim fi a kitab Allah so so punish me or bring the judgment down upon me According to the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam asked him a very surprising question He said Didn't you just pray with us just now and the man said no I'm in the Prophet said God the Ghoofy No luck or in a lot of God the Ghoofa In a lot of God the Ghoofa luck them back that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has already forgiven your sin Subhanallah, of course, there's this another episode. That's attributed to Isa alayhi sallam and John chapter 8 What's called the pericabee adulterai which you'll find in every single Jesus movie ever made that a woman who was caught in the act of adultery He's being chased by these Pharisees who want to stone her and then she falls down at the feet of Jesus And of course, he makes that famous statement speaking to the Pharisees Whomever among you is without sin cast the first stone this this passage which is in John chapter 8 verses 1 through 12 is Universally recognized as a fabrication for the text of the gospel of John and is not found in any of the Most earliest and best Alexandrian textual type New Testament Greek manuscripts It is a fabrication to the text almost by Ijma of New Testament textual critics So it's very strange oftentimes we hear about Islam being a very sort of rigid tit for tat sort of Eye for an eye religion or its Christianity is about forgiveness and mercy and it is about forgiveness and mercy Those are core attributes core virtues and Christianity, but don't forget that these are also core ideas in our tradition As well that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam he at times seemed to prioritize Compassion and forgiveness over justice now justice is a great virtue, right? It is the basis Adala according to Imam al-Qurtawi is the is the basis of our Sharia justice creates Social well-being peaceful coexistence and there must be justice in a society even in Plato Identified Decaio Sunni which is difficult to translate as justice or righteousness that this is the core the foundational attribute of The of the Republic of a city that operates in a correct virtuous way So there must be justice however compassion and forgiveness are also great virtues now None of us have compassion and forgiveness in the absolute and perfect sense That is only for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the same goes for justice Right the same goes for justice absolute and perfect justice cannot manifest in this world This is our belief You know and sometimes I have to burst the bubbles of some of our younger people that it's just not going to happen It's not the nature of the dunya to produce absolute justice and to obsess in its pursuance is an exercise in futility now Yes, we must do our absolute best to be just as much as we can According to our principles, but ultimately Ultimately, we will fall short of perfection and we have to recognize this earthly systems human interpretations Can never be perfect We are not meant to be too comfortable in the dunya And this is the secret to understanding what it means to be in the world and not of the world Or as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said Kunt fit dunya ka anna ka gharib o aabiru sabilin o kama qala alayhi sallatu wa sallam be in the dunya Like a stranger or one who was passing passing through passing by only ala adil Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can be Absolutely, just the state or some polity Cannot replicate or replace God and to think that it can is just beyond Terrifying and intimates really a crisis of faith. They tried to do that. It's called Maoism It was called Stalinism fascism. This is why we believe in something called Yom al-Qiyamah the day of judgment Right Yom al-Azeem Yom hesab Yom al-Azeem a great day Yoma yaqumu nasu li rabbil alameen when everyone will stand before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And guess what on that day? We won't want justice We will want compassion and it's our hope in Allah's compassion that gives us peace It's our hope in Allah's compassion that gives us peace no compassion No peace that's going to be the sentiment on the Yom al-Qiyamah No one's going to be saying no justice No peace on the Yom al-Qiyamah. No compassion. No peace. And it's a true peace a Lasting peace You have in the messenger of God sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a beautiful pattern of conduct For whoever has raja hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this isn't some kind of blind hope with no work behind it That's called tamani. This is someone who ties their camel and puts the towakul in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala For whoever has hope good hope with work with with effort With practice Hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and in the final day and makes Remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with abundance in college. You might have studied someone you may have studied someone Called Friedrich Nietzsche who actually said that compassion was a vice and an indication of what he called a slave or Mentality and he advocated for what's known as a transvaluation of all values essentially a rethinking of all values You know and what he meant by that was really Christian values But we have those valve many of those values in common with Christians We share those values and some might say well Nietzsche was a bit of a visionary He actually foresaw the type of nihilism that would result in a society due to what he called the death of God or sort of this idea that There is no God and you know, that's true He was somewhat of a visionary But it's very ironic that this man's final sane act before he completely lost his mind people don't read his biography He was walking in the streets of Turin Italy and he saw a man beating his horse And he ran and he grabbed the horse He hugged the horse and he was weakening his final sane act before he lost his mind completely He never spoke again after this was an act of compassion Towards an animal we see the greatness of this and the hypocrisy of these of these weird philosophies That are speaking out against being a compassionate person now what we cannot do is Align ourselves with certain people Who represent certain groups who are fundamentally opposed to our non? Negotiable metaphysical and moral commitments and Marius Muslims do this for various reasons probably the biggest reason is this kind of shared perception of Victimization what's known in the Academy as intersectionality or it's out of a need to assimilate into post-modern Quote-unquote Progressivism in the Academy which is really due to a lack of knowledge of or lack of confidence in our own tradition So they align themselves with people who maintain these very strange beliefs people who maintain for example that all traditional value systems are inherently oppressive Especially the Judeo-Christian Islamic tradition people who have declared basically ideological warfare on the tradition of Ibrahim Islam on Abrahamic religions Abrahamic morality people who believe that there's no Objective truth or morality which is in and of itself a contradiction but contradictions don't seem to bother these people People who maintain that there's nothing normative. They hate that word Normative or normal or orthodox they hate these types of word Why is this a problem because eventually they will expect us to compromise our morals our ethics and our Theological beliefs the very ethos of our religions of our religion in hopes of conjuring up Into existence some sort of radically egalitarian and just Utopia according to their Subjective definitions of justice morality and right and wrong you see the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Sallam he said There will come a time upon the people la yabqamin al-islam illa ismuh. Nothing will remain except al Islam except its name It's going to become a name without a reality. This indicates that Islam That that Islam that there is a norm quote-unquote normative Definition of Islam it is not defined by our feelings You see in the in the pre-modern world the hawk the truth was known by nakal and aqal the revelation and Reason that's how you know that's how you know the truth. That was their epistemology Right or noor on a light upon light Which is which is how many of the exegetes of the Quran interpret that statement Noor and ala noor and I had some noor nakal working in conjunction in conjunction with aqal now I'm not romanticizing the pre-modern world. Obviously. There's societal and political issues But what I'm talking about is on an epistemic level. They got it right nakal and aqal now We move into the modern the modern world Well, our nakal is thrown out of the window everything becomes intellect In fact, everything really becomes a type of strict empiricism Well, if you can't see it or taste it or touch it then it doesn't exist this kind of mechanistic Science this kind of Newtonian physics this idea of total materialism so everything becomes The empiricism and everything becomes intellect That's how you know everything and then we move into the post-modern period. We're both Nakal and aqal are thrown out of the window, right revelation. Oh, that's you know this antiquated divisive Tool of oppression and then the aqal. You can't really trust your intellect. So what is there in the epistemology? How do you know the reality? Well, it's based on your feelings Whatever you want it to be so now reality is defined by the zeitgeist no matter how Antithetical it might be to the authentic teachings of Our prophet Salah lotto said that you see we can't go there. We have certain Theological and ethical thawabit immutable Non-negotiable underlying principles. However, you want to call it Islam is not defined by our feelings It is defined by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his messenger salal alayhi as-salam the Quran in the Quran Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that He could have made us into one people were all like-minded, but he didn't do that. So we have to be principled We can't be sellouts The prophet salallahu alayhi as-salam gave advice to his Sahaba speak the truth Even if it's bitter and don't fear the reproaches of those who find fault in your religion. We're not trying to please these people We're trying to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Morality is not subjective and truth is real and falsehood is real and this is our dean We should stick up for it and if people disagree with us, that's fine. Just say la cum deena cum waliyadeen This is from the Quran. What's more tolerant than that? You have your religion. I have my religion You have your ideas and philosophies. I have my ideas You have your ideas of nature and nurture and I have my ideas of nature and nurture You have your ideas of what is virtuous and what is not and so do I The cum deena cum waliyadeen for man Shaaf al-yukmin for man Shaaf al-yukfor whoever wants to believe let him believe Whoever doesn't want to believe let him disbelieve I used to teach at a college that was predominantly Catholic and I used to tell my Christian students who would come into my office hours a Muslim professor because they were being berated By these professors spouting this type of post-modern nonsense They would come into my office and they would they would sit there and they would cry and I would give them advice and say Believe in God persevere in God. This is why I would tell them. I would quote their own scripture back to them I would quote their own scripture back then what Jesus says to the disciples if if if the world hates you remember it hated me first Right that people who are ego centric people who put themselves in the in the center of the universe people who are Geocentric I'm not talking about you know cosmological Geocentrism I'm talking about people who put the dunya in the center of their lives of their priorities The people that are feel centric right the the former tend to hate the latter people who put themselves and the world in the center of their Lives tend to hate and despise and mock and ridicule the feel centric people the people who put Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In the center of their lives or as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Give give Allah victory so that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you victory This is if and if this is our position right if we take our stand and stand firm Then we will notice that decent non-muslim people especially people that fear and love God people who practice traditional morality and Understand the power of compassion and forgiveness and are not constantly screaming Justice justice justice which is really coming from a place of her but dunya then they will respect our differences They will advocate for peaceful coexistence and they will simply agree to disagree But what the postmodern types right and moral relativists the critical theorists Some of these nominalists the philosophical materialists the social constructionists when it comes to them They will not agree to disagree with us What you will eventually hear from them is if you don't agree with me and if you don't radically reform Your archaic religious beliefs then eventually they'll they'll say to you then you are a bigot You are a Transphobe a homophobe. You're a misogynist. They might call you a fatphobe, right? You're just a caveman and you're a purveyor of toxic patriarchy And you know what there's no room for you in our little utopia on earth By the way, the word utopia means non-place. That's what the word literally means a no place is not going to happen It's in the word itself and my response to those types of people is that's great Hasbun Allah Allah's hookah and what a lot is sufficient for us. Don't sell out. It's not worth it Have is the comma life is too short to be a sellout, right? And then came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam. He said Ya, Rasulullah. Kulli fi l-Islami qawnan la asaloo anhu ahadan ghayrak. Tell me something about Islam But only you can tell me give me something special from you. The Prophet said very very quick answer But very profound. He has this gift sallallahu alayhi sallam Communicating profound truths with a few words. Cool. I meant to be la say I believe in God For mustaqim and be upright and be steadfast upon that. Don't be wishy-washy Seek a place with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Right seek a place with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not in the hearts of men the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is the beloved of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam Wala in it to be at the ahwaa hoon by the lady jackam in our in malakam in Allah he mean what do you want to see If you were to follow their vain desires now that after knowledge of the truth has come to you Then you will find neither helper nor protector Against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and don't forget I brought to leave room of love that is not a special sub-up that this salient point is due to the generality of the expression not due to the Specificity of its occasion of revelation. This is an axiom and Quranic exegesis in other words this Fret or wa'id essentially what it is is also for us It's for every single Muslim that if we follow their vain desires Now that after the knowledge of the truth has come to us Then we will find neither helper nor protector against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To paraphrase a brilliant man if we're going to constantly complain About other people and how bad we have it We better make sure that the evil is truly out there outside of ourselves and not in here Not in our own hearts the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam he said Whenever you want to mention the faults of others remember your own faults We're meant to cover up what the Allah whoever humbles himself Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Will exalt whoever exalts himself Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will debase and humiliate this is totally lost on a lot of modern people Humility, you know being grateful Remember inequality does not always mean Inequity just because there's inequality in the world, which is the nature of the world What is that I am? That's the nature of the world high and low ebb and flow it doesn't mean that there are always victims of That inequality it does not always denote Injustice some people are simply more intelligent than others some people have more wealth than others some people are better-looking Now there are victims in the world. That's true. Definitely. They are right But what we tend to do is self-victimize we feel like someone owes us something And really the cure for that is self-criticism and gratitude Shukr shukr is a beautiful beautiful Theological virtue in our tradition and it's all over the Quran and Semitic rhetoric. There's something called binary tea This is what antithetical ideas or concepts are juxtaposed for some sort of rhetorical effect For example, five kuru ni adh kuru kum wa shkuru ni wala tak furun Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He says be grateful to me Does it have regard for me so that I might have regard for you? Be grateful and do not disbelieve have shukr and don't be people of kufr very very interesting So shukr and kufr are juxtaposed right there Antonyms in other words in gratitude in gratitude is a type of disbelief In other words the word for ingratitude in the Quran is kufr So we have to be very very careful And check ourselves Right there was a certain king and this is one of my favorite parables one of my teachers told me many many years ago I say it a lot there was a certain king in a certain kingdom who had everything he ever wanted except he didn't have gratitude So he was discontent So what he used to do is he used to walk around the forest behind his castle and just Contemplate and he was in sort of in a you know in this depressed mood And then he saw this popper a poor man sitting beneath the tree and this poor man had a glass of water He had a crust of bread He had clothes that barely covered his aura and he was making vicar of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with great joy And so the king approached the man and he said look you you're a poor man. Why are you so happy? Why do you rejoice and the man said? Why shouldn't I be right? I have everything I need and he said what do you have? He said I have everything I need and this man this popper He was an Arif billah, right? And so he actually recognized that this was the king and he said to him you're the king Why aren't you happy you have everything you want and the king said I don't know so the popper said to the man if you were lost in the desert if you were lost in the desert and You were going to die of thirst horrible death How much of your kingdom would you give for half a glass of water and the king said half of my kingdom? And then the popper said to the king he said if you drank that water and you were unable to excrete it out of your body And it was going to cause an infection and kill you how much of your kingdom would you give for? The ability to get rid of that water. He said the other half of my kingdom So the popper said your entire kingdom was worth a glass of water. I have that here I have a crust of bread. I have clothes that cover my aura. I have the vicar of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I Have that and more you see this parable is obviously meant to be hyperbolic But we get the point just be grateful be content being a state of Tasleen to the qadr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continuous in gratitude and and Obsession for earthly justice is upstream to discontentment with Allah's qadr And that is dangerous Right and a lot of young college students that I come into contact with that have a lot of zeal for this I tell them all the time. That's fine work for justice, but just remember you're not aquaman. You're not wonder woman This is not the justice league Nietzsche's ubermensch or Superman is motivated by a love of this world and a rejection of the next world While the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam Who is the true superman? He said hope but don't you want to call me cutie up love of the world is ahead of every sin Just do your best and say alhamdulillah on a cookie. I'll Right and just contemplate the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. What's going on? I'm a tally. I like them. It's going to my dad and I love a baby. No big one But I spoke to him the name of the he is whana you became brethren by means of Allah's Nima and some of the ulama here They say this Nima is a is a direct reference to the Prophet muhamma salallahu alaihi salam that he put love between your hearts by means of His Nima and you became brethren the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam is Khaid al-Khalil la the Sayyidu wa la the Adam this fact by itself should engender a type of gratitude in the heart That should last you until the end of your days. What are we complaining about really when you think about it? I Can't even go to interfaith dialogues anymore. I used to do these all the time for 20 years Now they've become exhibitions of ingratitude Just like these pity parties where there's no real knowledge being communicated a lot of anecdotal evidence Right people just complaining Right. I went to one the last one. I went to somebody got Muslim stood up and said 20 years ago I was in a grocery store and somebody made a racist comment. Don't get me wrong. That's horrible Racism is horrible. That's Obvious is axiomatic, but is this something really to complain about? And bring up in an interfaith dialogue You know the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam he heard worse than that to his own face in Medina I'm not talking about Mecca in his own city where he's the head of state where the buck stopped at him a Group of people walked by him as Samu alaykum death be upon you This was in Medina. Why do we expect better circumstances in America in 2020? How can it be better than Medina to him an hour up the time of the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam? Right and sometimes people do threaten our lives Sometimes people do make threats and obviously that's horrible and those are those are obviously things that we should take very very seriously But put things in perspective. What are we complaining about? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not pity his prophet He sent him sewer of Taslea of comfort and consolation to strengthen and encourage him when the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam Was was abused in paif and kicked out of the city and he collapsed under the tree He's a lot of money. I'll go you like a da'a faqwati. I complained to you because of my lack of strength He attributed what had happened to him due to his own weakness. This is from his to war door Right. This is our role model. So long what I had he was selling we complained so much Allah gave us all something to complain about look at us now But even now we shouldn't complain. This is not a time for complaint exactly the opposite Because this would be a thousand times worse when you think about it. This could be a thousand times worse What what's what we're going through right now? This is a time where we should look inward and Repent and correct our conduct the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam was a victim of verbal and physical abuse and Mecca But how did he handle that? This is very important Now some of the Erlama divide the Prophet's life into what's known as Isawi or Christic and Musawi Mosaic periods in other words Mecca and Medina in other words in Mecca the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam He practiced something called assertive non-violence Martin Luther King said that he salam practice assertive non-violence. This should be our practice What is assertive non-violence? It is it is to be totally non-violent To be filled with compassion and mercy yet to be principle virtuous and devout Right if you just read the New Testament Matthew 23 Jesus peace be upon him in in his life He was non-violent, right? He didn't pick up the sword He was not in a position of power at any time during his life He said if if my kingdom were of this world my disciples would have fought but but my kingdom was not from here At least not this time around Yet he spoke the truth Well unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites. You've overlooked the way dear demands of the law Justice mercy and good faith you strain at the net and you swallow the camel. How can you escape the punishment of hell? hypocrites brood vipers This is quoting from Matthew chapter 23 Okay To be to be totally non-violent yet principle virtuous and devout Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam after he was attacked in one of the streets And they threw something on him. Yeah, you have a death there. Oh, you wrapped in a mantle come for and there On your feet get up and warn the people you have a job to do What is Allah essentially telling the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam essentially telling him to continue to be compassionate to them and In the face of their abuse to you because the Prophet's vocation is as a Bashir and a Nadir and Nadir a warner when someone warns you of something essentially they're being compassionate to you to you if someone sees If someone sees a a car about to plow into your house or something or a tornado about to take it Destroy your house and this person doesn't warn you That's that's an act of of cruelty, but if he warns you that's an act of Rahmah Mercy what a buck of a kept beer and stay positive magnify your Lord you have a rub Don't forget that more up but the fuck up there the rub denotes the imminent deity the personal deity the God who loves you and Takes care of you trust him what's the job back a fatah here and keep your clothes clean They did it to you, but you are going to clean it work on yourself first Don't lay down on the ground and say well this person knocked me down. He has to pick me back up I'm not going to pick myself back up. No get up dust yourself off and get to work Right get back out there and show them compassion. This is very very difficult What's the abacca for time here? Well, which is a faggur and shun their idolatry their immorality be principle Don't be a sellout. Well, I tell him to stuck here Well, you're up because fast beer and don't think that they that they owe you anything and be hopeful and optimistic Don't be rash or impetuous. I'm out of time inshallah. There's a color here on