Showing your pride in Islam is one of the most important obligations in this era...even if you are falling short, and e…
Showing your pride in Islam is one of the most important obligations in this era...even if you are falling short, and even if you are falling short and unveiled. Yes...the war on Islam requires all its sons and daughters to stand up to it, no matter what sins and transgressions they have..
The international order, and its lackeys in Muslim lands, seek every day to erase a landmark of Islam, fight against a ritual, attack something sacred, impose a law, distort pages of curricula, and 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 speed up or slow down in stripping people from their religion? What they see of remaining life...If they find, by their thermometers, the heat of faith, they restrain some of their evil, and if they see cold nerves and dead hearts, they continue. In the face of this attack, everyone is required to stand up...even those guilty of major sins among those who are still upon Islam, we advise each other internally as Muslims, and we may be stern with one another in advice as one hand scrubs the other to wash off their dirt, but we are one front against our enemies.
Show your Islam, show your pride in it and your reverence and love for it and your readiness to sacrifice for it...Are you a teacher at a school? A doctor at a university? A manager at a company? Begin your classes/lectures/meetings in the name of Allah and with prayers and peace upon the Messenger of Allah, pray and invite those around you, your students/colleagues, to pray with you, show your anger when the religion is mocked before you or its sanctities are violated...no matter how much you are falling short and sinful, for by this you are not being hypocritical or deceptive but performing some of your duty in showing your religion even if you fall short in other aspects...
Are you a male/female student? Show the rituals of the religion even if you are falling short/a drinker/disobedient to parents/unveiled...all this and showing the rituals of the religion?! Yes, you may say: But one who takes pride in and reveres his religion doesn't commit these sins you mention... Indeed! Good and evil, righteousness and corruption can coexist...(And for all there are degrees according to what they did)...You show the religion not to convince yourself that you've done what's required and excuse yourself from abandoning sins, but you've done wrong in one aspect and right in another, so you hope by that that Allah will encompass you with His mercy and help you reform yourself, and that you will be among those of whom Allah says: (And others have acknowledged their sins, they mixed a righteous deed with another that was bad - perhaps Allah will turn to them in forgiveness)...And don't pay attention to the mockery of mockers or to those who say: "Did you become a sheikh?!"...Rather hold firm and spread the spirit of dignity and see how it will raise morale, by Allah's will.
Allah legislated for us raising the call to prayer, takbirs on Eid, and rejoicing in Eids to show the religion, and due to His knowledge, Glory be to Him, that this raises morale, spreads dignity, and strengthens faith. And the enemies of Islam want us to walk as exiles in our lands and live as strangers in our countries...So do not obey them and know that you, by obeying Allah, are the authentic ones and they are the intruders...(Indeed, the earth belongs to Allah; He causes to inherit it whom He wills of His servants. And the [best] outcome is for the righteous).
So show your religion.