 Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu wa salamu ala Sayyidil Mursaleen wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een. InshaAllah tonight we'll talk about the last two characteristics of the people of success in the dunya and the akhira. In the past six days we've been talking about these characteristics of the successful people according to khajab dalal Ansari, the great commentator of the Quran, the great sage of the 5th century, and he gave us 10 characteristics. And the last two are, he said, Number nine is to treat the elders with dignity and with honor. And the tenth, he said, And with the youngster, with children treat them with kindness and gentleness in beauty. And this is one of the foundational aspects of Islam is the community. Family and community is at the foundation of this religion. That if families falls apart, communities falls apart. When communities falls apart, societies falls apart. So one of the emphasis of our Prophet, is honor and respect in community and in society. That Imam Tirmidhi narrates, the Prophet SAW said, he is not one of us who does not honor the elders and doesn't have mercy towards our children, the youngster and the elder. So we honor the older people and we show mercy towards the young people. The Prophet SAW always listened to children. He always rubbed over their head with his blessed hand. He was kind to children. He honored the elder people. Even when Sayyidina Abu Bakr's father, Abu Qahafa, when he became Muslim after the Fatah of Mecca, he was very old. And he, Sayyidina Abu Bakr brought him to the Prophet SAW to take his Shahada. The Prophet said, why don't you tell me, I would have gone to him out of his old age and his gray hair. The Prophet was honoring Abu Qahafa, who was not even a Muslim. He said, I would have gone to him to give him the Shahada. This is the way of our Prophet SAW. But the Qur'an is very clear about honoring the elders and honoring the, especially the parents. The parents are the foundation of honor and respect in a family life. The Qur'an says, the decree of Allah is to worship none other. And then to show honor and respect to your parents. Treat your parents with beauty and with ihsan. So what if one of your parents, when one or both of them, they attain old age, what do you do with them? If one of them or two of them, your parents become old, and it's a big honor for a person to experience that, to see their parents grow old. And when they grow old and you're there, the Qur'an says, don't even say a word of. Like don't say anything that would be disrespectful. The word of according to our scholars is the lowest level of disrespect, the lowest level. When they say, do something, you do it. They say, I'll do it, right? Don't repel them. Don't say anything negative or disrespectful. But address them in terms of honor and respect. This is what the Qur'an is commanding us. And then Allah says that remember that just make dua for them. Make dua for them. And remember that you were young at one point and they took care of you and say, Allah, as they took care of me, you show mercy to them because they showed mercy to me when I was a baby. So it's a cycle of life in that we are honored to have parents, those who have their parents alive and to serve them. In Islam, gray hair is a sign that you should honor people. And honoring the elders is not just honoring the Muslim elders, honoring everyone who's older. We're living in a society that we have neighbors and teachers and friends that are older or the parents of our friends. We should treat them with honor and respect regardless of their faith because this is the tradition of our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He stood up for a funeral. He stood up for a funeral that was passing and they said, this is not the Muslim funeral. And the Prophet said, isn't that a soul that should be honored? He honored the soul and everybody carries a soul, the breath of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Every human being, every living creature, we honor the elder people. And every, so it doesn't matter where they come from. So to honor the older people and to love and show compassion to the young is part of our religion, is foundational to our religion. The 10 things that he said, I want to summarize it. So for the people who might have missed the first few sessions, the first thing he said, be truthful with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Have a relationship that is based on truth with God. Don't be fake. Don't be phony with Allah. Be real with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because his name is Al Haq. He's the one who knows the truth. He's the one who knows your heart. He's the one who knows your thoughts. So don't be real with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Bu nafs baqahr. But with your nafs, your ego, your desire, your passion, be deal with it with anger. Be a dictator with it. Don't make truths with the nafs because the nafs will never allow you, never say it's enough. It will take you to the edge of the fire and then it will throw you in. So be careful with the nafs. Always be authoritative with the nafs. Bu ad-dustan bin nasiha. With friends, deal with it with nasiha. With giving sincere advice. Be sincere in your relationship, but also give them sincere advice. And we talked about advice that should be done in privacy, not in public. Bu ad-dushmanan bihalm. With your enemies, deal with them with gentleness because you don't want to add fuel to the fire. Bu ad-durbishan basakhawad. With poor people, with darwish, deal with them with sakhaawad, with generosity. Be generous. This is, we talked about the virtuous character, this beautiful characteristics of being amongst the people, what they call sakhi or the people of generosity. And then it says bachalq b'insaf. With creation, deal with them, with the general public, with everyone, deal with them with fairness and justice. Just be fair with everybody. Do onto the people with how you want them to treat you. This is the golden rules of all of the foundational rule for all of the belief. You're not a true believer until you want for your brother what you want for yourself. That's how you should treat people. Bu auliman batawazo. Would the scholars and ulama be humble? Humility is a great virtue. And the people who are humble, he said, nahat shakhapurmi wa sarbat zameen. He said, if we look at a tree, the branches that are closest to the earth are the one that has the most fruit. It means the humidity, knowledge will make you humble. If knowledge makes you arrogant, that's not knowledge. And then he said, ba jahilan ba khamushi. With ignorant people, silence. Silence is the teacher. On our path of the qadir bedil, he said, nijad mi talabi khamushi guzine bedil. Kedar tariqe salamat khamushi ustarast. The great Indian poet said that if you want to be saved, if you want to find safety and security, salvation, he said seek silence. Seek silence because in silence, there's salvation. Because on the healthy path, on a path that would lead to the truth, silence is the teacher. Silence is the teacher. Rumi said, listen to the silence because it has a lot to teach. So a lot of time when you come on ignorant people, the best remedy is to be in a state of silence. And then he's the last two. He said, ba buzorgon ba hormat with elder treating with elder treating with hormat with dignity and with honor. And then ba buzorgon ba shafaqat with the children deal with them with gentleness, with kindness, inshallah. So these are the 10 characteristics of the people of paradise and successful people of the junior. One of the things I love about these advice that if they're practiced, you will have success in the junior. In other words, your life will be an ethical life. Inshallah, may Allah give us to a field that we live an ethical life based on these principles that will be successful in the junior and in the akhira. JazakAllah khair. May Allah give you the beautiful days in these last few nights of Ramadan. May every night of your life be laylat or qadr, the barakah of laylat or qadr be in your life every night of your life. And may every day of your life have the barakah of the day of Arafah, inshallah, and may Allah protect everyone, all of the people on this planet, inshallah, from this pandemic, the coronavirus and bring a healing to the world as the world is really wounded and needs a healing. May Allah make it easy for the people all over the world. Inshallah.