Beautiful Patience: Evaluating and predicting the consequences of changing the world You must predict the consequences of what you say or do, whether it is by hand or by tongue. If it is very likely that, as a result of attempting to change the evil, you or another person will be harmed, then changing the situation is no longer...
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Do it, and then do it again. Integrity is the consistency between intention, the words on your tongue, and your action. While you like to think that you can deceive people with rhetoric, in a normal relationship people judge you by your actions and results. While you think you can hide your motives, the face and body speaks even if...
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“If one of you sees an evil he should change it by his hands (physically); if he cannot, than by his tongue, and if he cannot than by his heart, and that is the weakest of faith.” If you do not strive to dislike the evil in your heart, the heart can become subjugated to the influences of the evil. With repetition of such...
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• Don’t let your emotions cloud your judgment. Resist the impulse to react. Find out the reality of the issue. See things as they really are. • Take ownership of the task or issue. You are responsible. • Be creative and inventive. There’s more than one solution that’s hiding under that blanket. • Keep moving and build...
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On the authority of Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah said: “Were people to be given in accordance with their claim, men would claim the fortunes and lives of [other] people, but the onus of proof is on the claimant, and the taking of an oath is incumbent upon him who denies.” [Al-Baihaqi] • It is a very easy...
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Characteristics to strive for to be able to change the world: Sincerity (Ikhlaas): Eradicating evil is not for your ego, but an action aiming to please to Allah. People will put up their resistance to you if they sense your ego; their internal ideals desire a noble advisor who is humble and has humility (tawaadu’). This noble...
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