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We've all been in this kind of gathering.

You notice people's features, their charisma, their expressions.

When you look around, how do you feel?

Comparing ourselves to others can make us feel like we don't measure up.

Like maybe we aren't good looking enough,

or confident enough or dressed

expensively enough.

But have you ever thought about how beauty can be its own curse?

But what about the blessing and sense of peace that comes with letting go of the standards that the world demands of you? Oh, Sometimes we need someone to tell us our self-worth. There was a young companion who is a

Bedwin named Sahir, R

Rode Allah-A-Lah-Lah-An. He was known to have a low self-esteem. And when he used to

visit Medina, he would go to the Prophet Salal-Lah,

already was a small gift just hoping to be noticed

and he specifically described as being not very good looking but the Prophet

Allah-A-War-Wis-Lah al-WisLam would always find a way to show him that he was paying attention to him and he'd go that extra mile to make him feel valued.

And so on one occasion the Prophet-Salais-Lam grabs him from behind in the marketplace and he jokingly starts to wrestle with him

and he says who's going to buy this one from me who's going to buy this one from me and

Sahir radi alah alah nahoo even in the midst of that joke he says, yeah,

Rassol-O-Lah, who would want to buy me anyway? Now the Prophet

said some could have laughed it off, but he knew that Zahid felt inadequate

partly because of his appearance.

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