 The most merciful, the most beneficial, the most kind. How we translate those phrases, the important thing is to realize that when Allah asks us to start a thing, He asks us to start with Bismillah. And then what comes after the name of Allah and Bismillah, the two dominant traits is Ar-Rahman and Ar-Raheem. Both names of mercy, His Universal Mercy on to us and His Particular Mercy on to us. And amongst the mercies that He has given us is our faith that we didn't ask for, but Allah still gave us that faith. We didn't ask to be Muslim. We didn't ask to have Allah the Messenger of Surah As-Salam, but Allah Azza wa Jalla placed us into our hearts, whether the intellect wanted or not, that faith into the heart. And that is a mercy from Allah. And from amongst the mercies of Allah is that He has sent us instruction on how to perfect that faith. And that instruction came through His Prophet As-Salam. There are many hadith in which the Prophet As-Salam says, No, none of you truly believe until so on and so forth. A amongst the hadith is the hadith, None of you truly believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself. And we love that Allah has given us faith, faith in to us and made us people who if Allah grants that mercy on to us, that it that faith insha'Allah will enter Jannah. If Allah wills. If that mercy pulls out on to us, and that's part of the gifts of Allah, that He has given us this hadith to His hadith, As-Salam. This guidance. And then the brother here refers to this hadith. We mention this often is that this hadith is now restricted to the Muslim brother, this Muslim brother or sister. This is the brother in humanity. So just if we love faith for ourselves and our Muslim brothers and sisters, we love that faith for the non-Muslim as well. And we want that non-Muslim to be a person of faith, to be a person that when they end, when they are on the plane to the Hashem, when everyone is gathered, everyone is running from person to person and from father to prophet, from mother to father. And everyone is saying, get it from me. And the Prophet says, ummati ummati. We want that non-Muslim to be part of that umma of His Sallallahu Alaihi As-Sallam. And that's the part of the mercy Allah has given us, that He wants us to be people of da'wah, to be people calling towards Allah Azza wa Jalla, to be people who want the beauty that we find in this faith to be their fathers. And everyone is calling towards something. Everyone is calling towards something. That's a far-fetched claim. Whether we know it or not, we're calling to something. And the question we should ask ourselves, are we calling to Allah Azza wa Jalla? Or are we calling misguidance? There is no alternative guidance that Allah has sent. And the last time we were here, we spoke about Hadith in the Shema'il of the Imam of Tirmidhi, and of the Imam of Huan Hu, where he speaks about the character of the Prophets As-Salam. The life of the Prophets As-Salam is so well-accepted by those around him because he is known as As-Sadiq al-Ameen. He is known as the trustworthy, the truthful. That his character exuded guidance. That when Abdullah al-Salam was the one who saw him, before he became Muslim, he saw a man who said, that is not the face of a liar. That face that he saw, he knew there was truth on that face of his Allah As-Salam. And part of our da'wah is the first text I've read from Tirmidhi, that Hadith he spoke about last time. And the Hadith was about the character of the Prophets As-Salam, where he spoke about, he didn't speak about things that were disliked amongst people. He didn't use of course. He was using of the people. He was lenient. Right? He didn't seek faults in others. We mentioned all those qualities of his Allah As-Salam. After that, the Hadith continues from last time that what he said, that every time he spoke, what he said to Allah As-Salam, when he saw As-Salam spoke, if we want our da'wah to be received, if we want, we will say, we have taught ourselves, I've been around this person for so many years, and they haven't asked me about As-Salam, or they haven't, they're not open to what I, when they ask me why I'm going to eat during the ma'am, they're open to the da'wah. Ask me, why do those weird movements during lunchtime bring a break in your prayer, during lunch break, right? And that's the type of question they ask, and then they're not open to the da'wah, they see it as strange. They're not open to, perhaps they're not open to the da'wah because we haven't inculcated those characteristics that make us people of da'wah in the first place. Because when those characteristics were inculcated in Musa As-Salam, what is that? It's the word, that when he spoke, people were so still and so attentive that it's as if there was birds on their heads. They moved so little when he spoke that people paid such close attention to Musa As-Salam when he spoke, as if there were birds on their heads, meaning that when the slightest movement to do a bird is going to get scared and fly away. It's not, it's pretty easy to startle a bird, but that's how still they were. As if they were like statues listening to Musa As-Salam, that da'wah was so well received by them around your Lord, because of his characteristics of As-Salam, that he was a person who made himself receptive, and he made them receptive to da'wah because of the characteristics that he showed. That's what he said to the Kallamu, and they only speak when, right? When people only try to give da'wah, it's like maybe it's a little different, they argue over each other. That's what he said to the Kallamu, that when he was silent, that's when they would speak. His words were captured the minds and the souls of others because of that character that he had of As-Salam, that his words were presented with wisdom, right? It was presented with respect, so that when the other listens, that it's a da'wah, a discourse, when we see the person says, I actually want to hear what this person says. I actually want to see what comes out of this person's mouth. I see that whatever it is he's talking to me about seems like some sort of a relation to his character, so that when we speak if we're people of that character, from the da'wah, the people that da'wah is more well received, right? And da'wah, this is something that all of us should be doing. We should be people who call towards the line of Masjid-e-Hassan. But even if not everyone is active in it, our actions are da'wah. When everyone else is asleep praying for the Muslims and non-Muslims of our community, that's da'wah. Whether people see it or not, whether they hear it or not, that's da'wah. They owe a lot. Those people in this community who are not blessed with Islam, who are not blessed with security that comes to the heart, the solace that comes to the heart with faith, that's da'wah. People who don't compromise on principles. The fact that prayer time comes in to go to Jama'a. And we're pretty adamant about it with our managers who have written AB. We don't sacrifice principles. When other people see what there is that respect that they have that these people, these Muslims they have something that they are willing to work overtime for. They're people who are willing to make up the hours lost at work. They're willing to leave whatever is the demand of them right now because something else is more important. There's that awe and veneration for what is it that they have because when people speak there wasn't my bickering. They didn't argue, power comes with wisdom. It comes with soft words when soft words are needed and firm words when firm words are needed putting things in their place giving things that do justice and there's a few more lines but we'll skip those few lines when they say the Hadith يلحكون منهم يلحكون منهم When they would smile with them If they would laugh with something as long as it was something that was appropriate to laugh at he would laugh with them. He wanted them to feel azik I'm a part of you that I'm not something foreign لقد جاءكم رسوم من أنفوسكم عزيزان علي that famous haaya the famous haaya in the name of surat oba that our messengers come from amongst yourselves لقد جاءكم رسوم من أنفوسكم that it's from you from your people that when we give it our way to people that what I'm presenting to you is not something foreign this is meant for you this is the slum that I enjoy it's meant for all people it's not meant to be to feel foreign good parts of the culture and we find the parts of the culture that shouldn't be there We're Tajibu, we might Tajibu to minhu if they were surprised at something or they like something he would also be surprised with them he would show his awe if they were if they found if they spoke about at that time they speak about camels right, like one of these hadas are there going to be camels in jinnah perhaps like kids today ask are there going to be ferraris in jinnah are there going to be jinnah we entertain those questions with people who ask those type of things to bring that interest of what interests you that's important to me that what's on your mind that's important to me that I value what's on your mind I value what you have and come and we'll come together and find some way to work out our differences and perhaps we'll come to the same page you're Tajibu minhu you're Tajibu minhu and they would ask and they would ask and they would ask and they would ask and they would ask questions with a bit of force or why do you guys do that or why do you wear that thing on your head that's where the question comes you need to come on defensive you need to be patient with the force when that person speaks you need to answer the questions the daawa becomes effective when you're a person when others see you they know that you have what they need that's quite well financially we have a lot of money to give alhamdulillah, particularly in the Bay Area and that when people if there's some sort of catastrophe if something is needed in the community, people know that to come to the Muslims and so expressing the hadith that he said to a student if you see somebody who needs something then find them and let them know to come to him without discrimination that I have something for you when I talk about the hadith he said and again that this daawa doesn't mean to compromise on principles that just because maybe perhaps people are laughing just because people find something interesting doesn't mean you automatically define it interesting but to show you this interest in it with wisdom when he found something that he didn't like that wasn't good for the soul how would he break away from that conversation stand up and walk away or he just simply say don't speak about that or this isn't appropriate I don't want to hear this somebody might be backbiting at work about somebody else change the subject walk away act disinterested if we want a daawa to be received we need to be people who take from the imam people of daawa if we want people to be accepted to our daawa we should be people who show the characteristics of the imam of the people of daawa we are not asked to do much as a community we are asked simply to stay away from that we are not asked to do much as a community we are asked simply to stay away from things that displease Allah and do the bare minimum of doing it for a while of fasting when you need to fast giving you as a cat to make you hajj once in your lifetime but being consistent on those things that we do to be people who find the faith essential in our life to find the faith as a pillar in which you can lean on and when that faith is something that we find as a pillar when we find it to be something that is absolutely essential to our lives if we didn't have it in our lives we would be in utter ruin then that is when that faith becomes the thing that we call to like that the source of peace I have is this and if someone wants to take it away my peace would be gone and then when we love that for ourselves then that's when we call others to it if we don't see it as something good if we see our prayers as a chore if we see our fasting as a chore if we see smiling at others as a chore or if we see opposing our egos as a chore that faith can use a little bit of work before we can honestly call towards it before we can honestly love it for ourselves and love it for others may Allah make the people who love the faith may Allah make the people who love him as a wajjal may Allah make his people of da'wah may Allah make his people who accept the da'wah may Allah make his people who accept the da'wah what is called for us at each moment may Allah make the people who answer the call at each moment may Allah make his people who answer his command and stay away from his prohibitions may Allah make his people who are muhammad in our characteristics may Allah make his people who have good character so that not only for ourselves and our families and our loved ones but those who are yet to to be in our company that they also benefit may Allah make the people of love may Allah make us just love for ourselves and love for our families and love for the rest of the believers the rest of the women love for the non-believers that they have may Allah make the people who are consistent and to be people who never have our faith taken away from us may Allah make the people who have our faith consistent with us and may Allah make the people that are the last words that we say before we leave this dunya may Allah make the people who have salam who find solace and peace and security in our faith O Allah, make this people of love may Allah make us people of dua, of calling. May Allah make us people of dua, of calling and realizing our other need to call upon Him, Azza wa Jann. May Allah allow us to realize our dependence, and allow us to realize His independence, Azza wa Jann. May Allah make us the people who recognize that Allah and His angels send the Salat, the Salam, the Qasim, and ask you the same. May Allah make us the people who recognize that Allah and His angels send the Salat.