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Mahalbrikhata everyone.

Welcome back to prayers of the pious.

A lot of times people think of us that which is not true of us.

And one of the scariest thoughts for a person that is often glorified or a person that is given undue praise

is that because they don't meet that praise they meet Allah

sophana and they're held accountable for what other people say of them of

good and the prophet peace we him, told us of this frightening scenario

that when a person is buried and the people start to eulogize that person and to say all these

amazing things about him that the angels actually poke at that person and say,

ha, katak that quint, were you really as they say you were, were you really as they thought you were.

And this is not something that just applies to the great scholar or to the perceived great scholar or to the preacher.

This applies to every person who is deemed righteous by the public eye.

Just as we hate slander, we hate destructive praise because it can put us in a situation of hypocrisy.

May Allah protect us.

Abu Baker radi Allah al-A al-Anhu was very aware of that. May Allah you know we we find other companions finding Abu Bakr doing some secret

good deeds that no one was aware of. Imagine how many good deeds Abu Bakr did

that we were never aware of, that the books never encompass. May law be pleased

with him.

And there's a duah that he teaches us that I think is essential to every person that is in the

public eye.

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