Become an Ideal of Integrity
• Society wants you to drop down from level of nobility and honour to their own level. Never agree to the role society imposes on you. Forge your own identity, be an authority on your own image rather than being pushed into one. You will be treated the way you carry yourself. Appear vulgar and people will respect you with vulgarity. Act confident and powerful, but don’t advance yourself by humiliating others.
• Integrity begins with intent. Indeed all actions are judged by intention; and verily, every man shall receive what he intended. If your intention is flawed than your actions are also flawed. Intent is a decision that you made on the motive or agenda that you want to carry in your actions and behaviour.
• A single action can have several motives behind it; a single action can be sincere but that very action can have hypocrisy behind it, or being done so that attention and recognition is sought. You will usually always reap what you sow.
• Authenticity is the correlation of your motive and the expectations that you have set; so lack of authenticity occurs when your motive is contrary to the expectations that you have set. While Allah knows your motives and He will hold you accountable, there are worldly consequences as well; such as, loss of trust, people distancing themselves from you, or others being inauthentic with you as well.
• Integrity goes beyond honesty. It’s more than mere words of the mouth. Integrity is fulfillment of all of the parts to achieving completeness. It’s not just the words that you speak, but the thoughts in the mind that precedes the words and the actions that proceeds. Integrity is adherence to moral and ethical principles beginning with your heart, to your mind, and down to your actions. The passing thoughts of the heart can either adorn and embellish the actions, or corrupt them. Whose heart is not humbled, their actions are not humbled. Prophetic manners cannot shine on your actions until the divine light shines through your heart.
• Integrity goes into the realm of doing the right things at the right moment at the right place with the right person. Integrity is honesty, integrity is humbleness, integrity is courage, integrity is keeping commitments, integrity is standing up for your beliefs …
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