#RantsoftheMangoMan: Don't dig your own grave.

No matter who he was, how he treated his wives/they treated him, how he carried himself in media/politics - he's gone, reached his end & I find no reason for you to make your end miserable by speaking ill of the dead. [A Thread] 1/n
Was disappointed reading critical eulogies written for him online, but was not shocked. We are polarized in our opinion, lost respect for the dead [and those who are alive and we hate] - no matter how many times we were told to behave, we made sure to defy it. 2/n
We mistake defiance for khulli bad-tameezi. Defiance is about putting up a bold resistance, not to open the floodgates of our mouths to flood the world with our verbal diarrhea. 3/n
It was narrated that 'Aishah (RA) said: "The Prophet (SAW) said: 'Do not verbally abuse the dead, for they have reached the consequences of what they did." Al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah narrated that Prophet (SAW) said: "Do not vilify the dead (and) by that harm the living." 4/n
A Ustaadh of mine who I used to visit regularly for years taught us to think before we speak since we are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. 5/n
Inna Lilahi wa Inaa Elahi Rajioun. May Allah bless @AamirLiaquat with Jannah, forgive him for sins, give patience to those left behind & bless us w/ sanity to #RespectheDead, those who can't defend themselves, Ameen.

His chapter is over, yours is still being written.

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