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abu ameerah
August 15, 2007 at 1:56 AM
interesting approach…
i think the hardest part, though, would be putting ourselves in the “other’s shoes”…
MR
August 15, 2007 at 9:26 AM
great post! mashaAllah!
this is going to be hard
aarij
August 15, 2007 at 11:18 AM
The hardest thing for me is to treat my friends the way I’d like them to treat me, especially when they make fun of me. I get soooo tempted to say something back, subhan Allah, its an uphill battle. The reason why I get so tempted is because I have a very sharp tongue, and I can come up with a pretty good comeback but I know it’ll hurt the person.
One of the things I’m using to control my tongue is ayah 19 from Surah Ahzab:
“…but when the fear departs, they will smite you with sharp tongues, miserly towards (spending anything in any) good (and only covetous of booty and wealth)”
When I read this, I was like subhan Allah, Allah is characterizing the munafiqeen with the very characteristic that I have: a sharp tongue that smites people. I’m not making tafseer of the ayah, but what I learned from that ayah is that a sharp tongue that is used to hurt people ain’t cool, its actually a characteristic of the munafiqeen!!
Another thing I have a problem with is criticism…especially in daw’ah ideas. I used to take criticism of my ideas very personally. But alhamdulillah, now every time I come up with a daw’ah idea and present it, I remind myself that the person is going to criticize the idea, not me. This is also helping a lot, alhamdulillah.