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One of the assumptions that we sometimes make when we're navigating through these Ahadith and these narrations,

especially as they pertain to drama, is that we're going to be the center of the drama.

But all of us know that at times we are called to judge in a dispute,

we're caused to pass judgment on something that's unfolding before our eyes.

Sometimes where we have no business doing so, but we're often caused to judge and the

greatest verse of justice or one of the greatest verses of justice in the

Quran.

So, Allah, sibhala says,

well, I al-Ihaz,

that you don't let your hatred for a people

cause you to swear from justice, that you always stay upon justice.

And that is a quality and trait that you are rarely

find even amongst righteous people that you naturally have a bias towards those that you

love you naturally have a bias towards your friends. Your friends are always misunderstood even when they're wrong.

Your enemies are always devious even when they're right, right?

So you're always, you know, torn.

The prophets like some talked about the formal position though of being asked to judge in an affair, okay, which comes with authority and obviously there's the formal position of the kawdi, the judge in a state and

then there is the the arbitration or some sort of dispute that requires you to step in or

where you're asked to step in. The Prophet's Islam said that whoever forces

themselves into a position of judgment, meaning a position of authority, will be entrusted to it,

meaning they won't have any blessing from Allah's in a law. But when a person is asked to judge and

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