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The brothers and sisters I was asked a question after last week's

chutba which basically gave me my chutba today.

The question was as we were talking about this idea of

owning our own mistakes and the way that sometimes we overcompensate in the midst of our disputes by not acknowledging our own mistakes for what

we feel like is a deficiency on the other side.

You know, if there are two people that are in dispute I feel like that

person wronged me more and because that person's not willing to acknowledge this

much wrongdoing I'm not willing to acknowledge this much wrongdoing and therefore it ends up in a complete

collapse.

And S bahadah, it led me to think about this concept which is called serving the undeserving.

And serving the undeserving as a concept

usually refers to the realm of charity.

But at a deeper level, there's a quote

to the effect of, you know know I never regret good deeds I just

regret doing good deeds for the wrong people and how someone might feel like

but say I'm going to give that person the upper hand.

If I do that, then that person will feel like they can get away with it.

That person will feel like they're justified in their position.

They'll feel like it's okay for them to act the way that they are acting.

And so the question was, how do we reconcile that with our own teachings in the religion of

Ihsan of excellence.

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