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in the month of Ramadan or become prey to those who create problems without realizing that

you know what, here is the Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says

that if someone were to abuse you or to say something bad to you, you reply to them by

saying, I am fasting. That's the Hadith. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam instructs

us to say, I am fasting. Why should you say I am fasting? Because I'm not supposed to

be getting angry. I'm supposed to be a person who's conscious of Allah. This is my moment

to develop takwa and consciousness of Allah. I want to come out of every day of Ramadan

closer to Allah than I was the previous day and I want to exit the entire month, a changed

person. One of the things you and I suffer is the tempers, either our own or others or

a bit of both. So what we need to realise is if you're not going to work on your temper,

nothing's going to happen. It's going to get worse as time passes. You become less and

less tolerant of others or you become a person who really doesn't even think before he

or she speaks. Is that what you want? In fact, Allah does not want that. Allah knows

you're a human being but he wants you to work hard on your character, your conduct,

your temper and everything else. So this is the month of Ramadan. Tempers flare in the

month of Ramadan. I've witnessed it and I'm sure nearly every one of us has witnessed

it. Whether it's this Ramadan, previous Ramadan's or whenever it might have been. But you

find Muslims, good people sometimes, decent people who pray five times a day, people

who fast the whole month but they do not control their temper. They do not control themselves.

They become so angry at little things calm down. Every time you have squeezed yourself,

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