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Assalamu alaikum, Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

My brothers and sisters, everyone loves their reputation.

I have a reputation.

Wow, we'd like it to be good, Mashallah.

Everyone wants to have a brilliant reputation.

And so sometimes what happens is people accuse us of things

that are damaging to our reputation.

And that's not a nice thing.

Allah Almighty warns us not to falsely accuse others

and Allah Almighty warns us to solve matters in a way

that does not mess the reputation of those

who perhaps are good people and they may have made a mistake.

But sometimes when a crime is committed,

you cannot hold back claiming that I'm going to protect

this person's reputation because the question is,

what reputation?

So we ask Allah to grant us dignity and respect.

We ask Allah to protect our reputation.

And at the same time, we will assist to protect the

reputations of others, especially where they are unfairly

or unjustly accused.

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