This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. I'm going to al-A al-A al-Aq al-A al-Aah al- they go, you have to adjust everything for me. But first and foremost, I want to apologize for our delay.

We actually left Birmingham at 1 o'clock so we were anticipating to be here a lot earlier

but Ljeville la Abbraimine Allah's al-A-Lah had a different plan for us.

And you know, obviously when we talk about this topic, pursuing excellence, in pursuit of excellence,

what is the word for excellence in the Arabic language, brothers or sisters?

Al-A-A-A-Sahn, right? And Al-E-Sahne, we touched on a little bit actually yesterday, I don't which university but we talked about the art of forgiveness yesterday in one of the universities and Allah's pahala describes the people of Ihsan in a very, very beautiful way.

Allah's Allah, he says in Surit Ali Amran,

was ariuilah al-I'mran, was ari-uilah al-Iqiyun,

wahrathun al-Audu has samaatwatw al-Dah, rush to the forgiveness of your lord and a paradise that is more vast than the

entire heavens in the earth and it has been prepared for the righteous,

for those who are conscious of Allah's Allah Allah al-A-Wahada.

Then Allah-Sibhana-Taa'aa'a gives us these characteristics, right?

And just briefly,

and just briefly, al-Ad-Dah,

those who give not only in times of ease,

but they actually give in times of hardship also.

So, somehow a lot, obviously when someone is rich and when someone has a lot of money,

he's expected to give, right?

You know, if you're in a fundraiser, things of that sort, everyone looks towards those who are well off, those who own businesses, those who are in a medical field or whatever it is, they look towards those who have a lot of money.

But nobody's going to look to the guy who's cleaning the tables and say, hey, you need to give for the sake of Allah's

al-Qaeda because he's not expected, but he has an expert. He has a certain expectation of himself, right? The expectation that he has of himself is that he has to give

whether he's in hardship or whether he's in ease because he understands that

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