Showing pride in Islam is one of the most obligatory duties in this time...even if you are negligent, even if you are a…
Showing pride in Islam is one of the most obligatory duties in this time...even if you are negligent, even if you are a negligent woman who wears revealing clothes. Yes...for the war against Islam requires all its sons and daughters to stand against it, no matter what sins and disobediences they may have...
The international system and its cronies in Muslim lands strive every new day to erase an Islamic landmark, fight a religious practice, attack a sacred thing, impose a law, or distort curricula. Their goal is clear: (And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able).
What makes them hasten to strip people of their religion or slow down and hesitate? What they see in the rest of life...if they detect in the scales of their thermometer a warmth of faith, they hold back some of their evil; but if they see cold nerves and dead hearts, they continue.
Faced with this attack, everyone is required to resist...even those who commit major sins but still hold onto Islam. We advise one another internally as Muslims, and we may be harsh in our advice to one another, as one hand scrubs the other to wash away its dirt, but we are one front against our enemies.
Show your Islam, show your pride in it, your reverence for it, your love for it, and your readiness to sacrifice for it...Are you a teacher in a school? A doctor at a university? A manager at a company? Start your classes/lectures/meetings with the name of Allah and prayers and peace upon the Messenger of Allah. Pray and invite those around you—your students or colleagues—to pray with you. Show your anger if the religion is mocked in your presence or its sanctities are violated...Even if you are negligent and sinful, you are not showing off or deceiving; rather, you are fulfilling part of your duty in showing your religion, even if you fall short in other areas...
Are you a student? Show the rituals of the religion even if you are negligent/a drinker/a disobedient child/a woman who wears revealing clothes...All this and you still show the rituals of the religion?! Yes, you might say: But someone who takes pride in their religion and reveres it would not commit the sins you mentioned...
Yes! Good and evil, righteousness and corruption come together...(And for all there are degrees of what they do)...You show the religion not to convince yourself that you have done your duty and absolve yourself of leaving sins, but you do so while still falling short in one area and improving in another. You hope that Allah will overlook your shortcomings with His mercy and help you reform yourself, and that you will be among those to whom He says: (And others have confessed their sins, mixing a righteous deed with another evil. Perhaps Allah will turn to them in mercy)...Do not pay attention to the mockery of those who mock or the words of those who say, 'Have you become a sheikh/sheikha?!'...Rather, hold firmly and instill a spirit of dignity, and watch how this will raise spirits, Allah willing.
Allah has legislated for us the call to prayer, the takbirs of Eid, and joy in the festivals to show the religion, for He knows that this raises spirits, instills dignity, and strengthens faith. The enemies of Islam want us to walk as exiles in our own lands and live as strangers in our own countries...So do not obey them, and know that you, by obeying Allah, are the true ones, while they are the intruders...(The earth belongs to Allah; He causes to inherit it whom He wills of His servants, and the outcome is for the righteous).
So show your religion.