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Mar 2025
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YAQEEN INSTITUTE
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You can’t fix what you refuse to face.

Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Yaser Birjas reflect on how Ibn Hazm (rh)’s brutal honesty with himself made him a better man—and why confronting your own flaws is the key to real transformation.

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