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So there could be this objection.

What type of society are we creating

if we allow for people to be insulted

and we ask them to not respond on their own behalf.

What type of equilibrium does that set up

or imbalance does that set up

when people are expected to just tolerate those things.

The answer to that is that Allah tasks us with responding on behalf of other people.

Now on a spiritual level, the same person who is supposed to have the humility and self-control to where they can tolerate insults and

tolerate you know bad behavior and bad character towards themselves is

supposed to draw from a great sense of Gueira and honor for their brother or

sister especially in their absence to where they don't

tolerate their brother or sister being spoken about in a certain way.

And what that does is it creates a culture to where bad behavior, bad character is not acceptable in whatever forum we're speaking about

because someone's going to check that person when they start to act in that way without

that person having to respond for themselves

as they're trying to achieve a different spiritual station with Allah

sophana. And there's some beautiful Ahadith in here and then some scary ones because you realize

you could be on the other side of this

sometimes.

The Prophet's like he said, whoever defends their brother or sister in their absence,

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