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Dear brothers and sisters, typically when you speak about negative traits that are found in the Quran about the

Tyrants of the past and in general when you speak about negative traits today

You're often talking about how to deal with someone else who has those traits and so many times

If you were to go into Google for example and search a negative trait

It's going to be how to deal with someone who has this trait

Rather than how to deal with yourself potentially developing this trait

And of course the Quran in its very nature calls upon us to be very very introspective

When you read even the story of Fidahum

Instead of thinking about the Pharaohs of the world as they exist today

You actually ask yourself do I have some of the traits of Fidahum?

It's very hard for a person to actually have that conversation with themselves

But that's actually what to double is that's what reflection on the Quran is that you find everything whether Allah is talking about

Benny Islai or Fidahum or if Allah is talking about the devil himself

Are there traits that are developing within me? Are there signs of that trait?

Why do I need to be that introspective because the Quran recognizes that sometimes you can have a

proportion of something without it being the whole thing and it's better for you to

undercut it early on so that it does not become to your detriment not in this life and more importantly not in the hereafter

If I have an arrogance problem even if it's a small problem, but I'm starting to become more arrogant more entitled

My tongue is starting to get a little bit looser. I might not be a liar or a back-biter or a tyrant, but

There's enough there that let me try to undercut that early on before anybody else even notices it

Before someone else comes up to me and says, you know, I think you're starting to have this problem as a Muslim

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