Gareth Bryant Writes

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My thoughts on dealing with opposition:

This has taken me a very long time to learn, but here it is:

“If a lynch-mob wants to hang you, you don’t give them a noose; if someone wants to shoot you, you don’t give them a loaded gun; if an archer wants to hunt you down, you don’t give him arrows.”
Gareth Bryant

This basically means that you as a person must never give anyone ammunition to take shots at you. Let’s be honest people, everyone is not gonna like everything about us, or everything that we do…just reality. However, it doesn’t mean that you add insult-to-injury, by making it easy for people to dislike you, despise you, or to attack you.

#I’m just sayin’!!!

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Gareth Bryant

Gareth Bryant has been a Chaplain/Imām since 1435, A.H./2014, C.E. They studied Islamic-Studies & the Arabic-Language under Siraj Wahhaj (Imām of Masjid at-Taqwa), Fiqh (Islāmic Legal-Analysis) under Shakiel Humayun (Founder of Foundation for Knowledge and Development [FKAD]), Sīrah (Biography/Life of Muhammad) & Mustalah-ul-Hadith (Authentication of Narration), under Abdul-Rahman Khan (Executive-Member of the Fiqh Council of North America), `Ulūm-ut-Tafsīr (Qur’ānic-Commentary Science) as an Online-Student of Bilal Philips (Founder of International Open University [IOU]).

One response to “My thoughts on dealing with opposition:”

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    Kaitlin

    I agree! If someone is bound and determined to dislike you, there’s no stopping them. But that doesn’t mean you have to make it simple for them. Be graceful.

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