How can one enhance their character? | Mufti Abu Layth

much love heavily emphasizes good character how should one go about building it and removing bad traits such as envy contempt and anger love from canada that's actually a very good question how does one go about enhancing the character well i would say

the fact that you have asked this question or a person asks this means they are already on that path it does begin with introspection definitely to look in i would say also in looking out as well one must realize that like they need to you know things like good character do also come to us by modeling behavior so we see

people doing certain things and we recognize that that's a virtue which we then enact so it is also by whether it's going to be by looking by reading whatever means people have to learn by watching by observing good behavior from other people but i want it so these two points may be obvious but i want to add two more points to that one i want to say is that and this i feel is crucial

you see we when a person is is sometimes envious or bitter or um you know just cruel this maybe not always but i feel often is stemming from something there's something not you know there's something that hasn't settled within there's some maybe a person is hurt or maybe a person has suffered and then it burns them to see people

who are not suffering or who are not and i think that needs to be resolved and sometimes it that may be a very long process but it needs to start that journey must begin that kind of therapy in whatever way sometimes it's in by actually taking therapy undergoing therapy whether it's counseling sometimes it may be just introspectively a person does it with themselves um sometimes it can be through you know certain deep reflection and

or speaking to select friends or people that which is a form of counseling anyway really you know if you're speaking to someone that is reliable trustworthy one needs to sometimes untie those knots there's quite a few knots that people have and it makes them very bitter towards the world you know it's when you've because i guess in in many ways everybody has been uh done onto you know in some way or another but you can the way you

have reacted you can learn even though you can't change the past but you can learn to untie those knots still and move forward with compassion the other thing i was going to say is maybe and this may seem counterintuitive but maybe give in charity even if it's small amounts maybe with some ingenuity to it so as opposed to just going online and donating somewhere maybe if you see someone giving them something

it's strange what this humanitarian act of compassion does to the psyche of the giver it's amazing i mean it's i i think it's very underrated and it then it's so telling why islam emphasized this so much it so i i would encourage those four things