Be Proud of Your Faith, Not Afraid of Their Blame. | Shaykh Omar Sulieman

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says to the believers, that whoever amongst you turns away from his religion, then Allah will replace them with a people that love Allah and that are beloved to Allah. So, Allah mentions that these people truly love Allah and they are truly loved by Allah.

[00:00:21]Then Allah mentions the characteristics.

[00:00:24]And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, they are humbled amongst the believers and they carry themselves with dignity amongst disbelievers. They strive in the path of Allah and they don't fear the blame of the blamers.

[00:00:42]Now, we talked about an unhealthy pride and a healthy type of pride. There's also an unhealthy humility. There's disgrace. And Imam al-Ghazali has an entire chapter distinguishing the positive sense of humility from unhealthy humility, a sense of humility which actually leads to disgrace. So, so being humble amongst the believers and being dignified amongst disbelievers. Does this mean being disrespectful to those that don't believe? Does this mean harming them? No, we just finished in the previous episode the Prophet maintaining a sense of collectiveness and a sense of composure in the face of taunts. What this means is that you do not relinquish your faith or your principles or your Islam in the presence of other people. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then mentions that they strive in the path of Allah.

[00:01:36]They don't fear the blame of the blamers. Ibn al-Qayyim mentions here that notice that Allah did not say they don't fear the blame of the disbelievers because often times the people that persecute you most or that try to shame you out of your Islam most are other Muslims. There are certain things that you can do that your non-Muslim friends accept of your Islam so gently, but then you're amongst your Muslim relatives and they want you to stop doing this and they feel ashamed of this and they've internalized that villa, that humiliation from the outside to where they're now most vicious with people on the inside, right? And it speaks to a collective issue. So, low matala in they don't fear the blame of the blamers. No one can push you away from your faith inside the community, outside the community. No one can shake you out of your own ethical core and out of your own principles of good character and good akhlaq inside or outside. No one can force you to act rudely or to relinquish anything of what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves inside or outside. So, this is a package that comes together