Name: Episode 8: Responding to Your Haters
Uploaded: 2020-05-01T08:30:00.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: The greatest test of good character is how one deals with someone with bad character. The greatest blessing of resisting aggression, is gaining the support of the angels.

<p>The greatest test of good character is how one deals with someone with bad character. The greatest blessing of resisting aggression, is gaining the support of the angels. </p>

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Spiritual beings created from light who carry out God's commandments without hesitation. They play various roles in the cosmos, including recording deeds and delivering revelations.

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Episode 2: Hold Your Pens

Episode 3: Fasting While Others Eat

Episode 4: Sleep Well

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Episode 6: As You Step Out

Episode 7: The Banner Above You

Episode 8: Responding to Your Haters

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Episode 12: The Best Supplication

Episode 13: Be Fair When You Judge

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Episode 19: Have You Ever Seen an Angel in Human Form?

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Episode 23: From Prayer to Prayer

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Episode 26: When Jibreel Descends Upon You

Episode 27: The Heavens are Creaking

Episode 28: In Your Room Praying Behind You

Episode 29: Gatherings of Remembrance

Episode 30: When Allah Loves You

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Throughout your existence, there are angels in your presence. But it’s your actions that cause those angels to either praise you or disgrace you. Through this series, we will explore the actions that invite these blessed unseen beings to pray upon you, and carry your name and mention to the One who created us all. Join Sh. Omar Suleiman this Ramadan.

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This section covers the core articles of faith (Īmān), namely faith in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and the divine decree (qadr). Other related topics, often found in classical theological works, are also found in this section.

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 So as you've got the angels reigns on your head and we talked about this idea  that Allah increases a person in honor with their humility.  Your greatest test of humility and honor is going to come when you meet  someone who has absolutely none of those things, right?  And so you encounter people of no character. As Imam Al-Ghazali  rahim Allah Ta'ala said, the greatest test of  husnul khuluq, of good character is how a person deals with someone with  su'ul khuluq, with bad character, right?  That's where the flaws of the tongue come out.  That's where the flaws of character, the flaws of the heart, arrogance, pride,  so many of those things manifest in how you're going to deal with someone.  You get to work, you meet someone that's being a jerk to you or, you know,  you're on social media and you see someone that's saying certain things to you.  Think about this incident that took place with the Prophet  Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.  The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was sitting with Abu Bakr radiAllahu  anhu and a man started to insult the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam  and insult Abu Bakr.  Now the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was doing what he always did,  which was responding with patience.  The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not entertain the insults in any  way whatsoever, and he definitely did not respond in like manner.  Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu, who loved the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam  more than he loved himself, is witnessing those insults.  And finally, he can't hold himself and he responds.  As soon as he responds, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gets up and he leaves.  Now Abu Bakr, seeing the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam get up and leave,  is afraid that he may have offended the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam  or that the Prophet was upset with him.  So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is sitting and Abu Bakr comes to him  and he says, oh messenger of Allah, are you upset with me?  Is it something that I did?  And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that when we were sitting there,  before we were responding to those insults, Allah had sent an angel from  the heavens and that angel was responding to everything that was being  said to us.  And then as soon as you started to respond, the angel left and a devil came  and sat in its place.  A shaitan came and sat in its place and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam  said, I did not want to sit in the presence of that shaitan.  SubhanAllah, think about that.  An angel, a specific angel was sent down to respond.  And then as soon as the angel, as soon as you respond on your part, the angel  leaves and a shaitan comes and basically eggs you on.  And that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that strength is  not in how you overcome another person.  Strength is actually in how you overcome yourself.  Allathee yamliku nafsahu aindal ghadab  Very powerful usage of language.  The one who owns himself still controls themself in times of anger, in times  of rage, right?  They're still in the driver's seat because ultimately what usually happens  is that whether someone is speaking to you in a certain way in person or online  now, since most of our interactions are on social media, right?  Wherever that is, you tend to respond out of the sense of pride.  And in the process of that, you let shaitan, you let the devil into the  driver's seat and you take the passenger seat.  And that's why you would say things in fits of rage that you otherwise  would never say.  And so controlling yourself by yielding to the angel to respond on your  behalf is what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is teaching us with this.  And when you do that, Ibn Al-Qayyim Rahimahullah, he said something very  powerful.  He said that not only do you cause the shaitan to miss you with his arrows,  but you also cause him to waste arrows.  So you're making the shaitan despair in you, in being able to get you out  of your element so that you start to respond to someone with bad character,  with bad character as well.  And again, connected to the previous hadith, the angel raises your reins,  raises your sight in the sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, raises your  station in the sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.  Wahab Ibn Munabbah Rahimahullah Ta'ala, a man came to him and he said,  so-and-so said this about you.  Wahab Ibn Munabbah said, did shaitan not find a postman, a mailman other  than you?  Stop acting like the shaitan's mailman.  I'm okay.  I'm good.  I'm in my element.  The angels will take care because I said, Bismillah,  tawakkaltu AAala Allah wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.  I put my trust in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.  I was told that I would be defended.  Fasayak fee kahumullah and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will surely suffice  you through those angels that he has sent.  I don't feel the need to denigrate myself by responding in like manner.  So I …

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