Ramadan 2022 - The Manners of The Believers #12 - Thinking the Best of Others (usn al-Dhann)

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Of the characteristics of the believer (Part 12 of our series) is that the default is to think the best of people, and to interpret ambiguous phrases and unclear incidents in the most positive manner.A pure heart leads to pure thoughts of others, while a heart full of suspicion leads to suspicious thoughts of others. The Prophet (SAW) said, "I warn you against being suspicious of others, because suspicion is the most lying of matters..." [al-Bukhari]. Having ḥusn al-dhann and always interpreting ambiguous phrases in the best of ways would completely demolish the toxic refutation culture that social media is saturated with. Even if others aren't living up to those standards, remember that we have to answer to Allah, and we should not get involved in the rampant climate of 'name and shame' and 'cancelling' because of an ambiguous issue. The believer is more worried about his own deficiencies rather than obsessing over the alleged faults of others.

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0:30.0	In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most
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2:30.0	because some of it is actually sinful. One is your assumption. One is when you assume and it's not clear. It's an ambiguous thing and you made an assumption. Allah said, avoid the majority of assumption. We'll get to the exceptions. Those are the exceptions. The default, we avoid assumption. Why? Because sometimes assumptions are actually sinful. You will be discredited in the eyes of Allah. You will be
3:00.0	discredited potentially in the eyes of Allah. And I thought that a lot of people who are potentially punished, your actions will do something that will bring about Allah's punishment because you had an evil assumption. And I will
3:09.5	Ali, he was said, I'm said,
3:10.5	Adith is in Bukhari,
3:11.7	Iyakumwavan, I warn you against assumptions.
3:16.1	Don't assume, Iyakumwavan,
3:18.7	because fa'innahvan akthabul Hadith,
3:22.0	the most lying of all speech is your own assumptions.
3:26.1	When you assume, and it wasn't intended that way,
3:29.1	and then he went on, and he said,
3:30.7	and don't spy on one another,
3:32.5	and don't back bite, and don't back stab,
3:34.9	and don't hate one another,
3:36.5	rather all of you,
3:38.1	all of you be brethren for the sake of Allah.
3:42.0	This beautiful Hadith, it begins with,
3:45.1	don't assume things.
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