Even the Good Fall Short
People are flawed and they make mistakes.
That much is given, but then there are those who rise above their base desires and limitations to become the archetypes of good. We call those people the righteous, the pious, the truthful. So how should we grapple with the reality that even the good fall short? Even someone as good as the Ka’b bin Malik (r). The story of Ka’b bin Malik is a classic story of procrastination and repentance, but it is also a story of the resilience that is necessary to pull ourselves out of the darkness.
