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Dear brothers and sisters, I wanted to approach in today's kultbah briefly the topic of Ehsan, the topic of doing good when you don't feel good as you do good.

And what I mean by that is that there's always this sentiment that the more corrupt the world becomes, the more our interpersonal relationships decay,

the more our relationship with Allah SWT starts to decrease, the more those who seek to insist upon a higher way are going to be taken advantage of and are going to get what they call the short end of the stick.

They're not going to get the benefits that most people get in this life by cheating, by being petty, by insisting upon matters of this world, by seeking to consume as much as they can of this world without any sense of conscience, not of Allah SWT nor of anything else.

And Subhanallah, when you look at the Prophet SWT, I want to start off with what this kultbah is not about.

Rasulullah SWT, despite being a person who we can all agree was taken advantage of on multiple occasions, despite being the person who would be mobbed for Sadaka, mob for charity, asked questions in a harsh manner.

The Prophet SWT, despite giving in every relationship of his more than what he received, both to those that rejected him and to those that accepted him.

No one can say that they were a better sahib, that they were a better companion to the Prophet SWT, than he was a sahib to them.

None of the family members of the Prophet SWT could say they were a better family member to him than he was to them, and of course his enemies who never even acknowledged his goodness towards him.

Despite all of that, Rasulullah SWT was a man who knew how to set boundaries for himself, despite his boundless compassion.

He knew how to say no, Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when it was necessary to not enable a greater harm.

That's why Surat Al-Hijrat was revealed, because the Prophet SWT when he went home, Rasulullah SWT was giving the hack of his family upon him.

And so no matter how loud you screamed at him, or how much you banged on his door, Rasulullah SWT at that time was engaged in the hack of those people inside his household upon him.

The Prophet SWT despite being the most merciful person, and a person who was a mercy to mankind, he did not allow the harm that was shown to him to shut him down SWT.

Despite Allah's will, it is as if you would harm yourself, not that the Prophet SWT would actually self-harm, but that you're hurting yourself.

Over your love for them, the Prophet SWT did not have any lack of zeal towards the message that he was actually spreading.

He didn't cry all day and night, Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam, to where he could not work the way Allah SWT taught him to work.

Despite the Prophet SWT himself, having endured so much hardship from the people.

Al-Lladi Yuhalitun Naswa Yassirul Al-Ala-Adaham, no one fits the description of someone who mixed with the people and tolerated their hardship more than Rasulullah SWT.

Despite that, the Prophet SWT did not tolerate a climate of abuse.

And he didn't tolerate a climate of wrongdoing, and did not allow for that to happen to people that were around him.

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