Ramadan 2022 - The Manners of The Believers #13 - Pride in One's Islamic Identity

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

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Of the characteristics of the believer is that the believer takes pride in the faith of Islam and his identity stemming from that faith. Note that this 'pride' is not at all the type of pride that is forbidden, because that pride is based on the false assumption that somehow you are better than other person because of something you have done. This type of pride is not arrogance, but rather an overwhelming sense of gratitude that Allah has blessed one with imān, and the dignity and love that comes from recognizing and living with imān. The Prophet (SAW) said, "It is not befitting that the believer humiliates himself..." [Abu Dawud]. The believer carries himself with a sense of purpose and dignity, and is never embarrassed or ashamed of his identity.

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4:30.0	The believer is not embarrassed. He's hiding behind so many of us, especially after the horrific events of 9-11,
4:36.5	you know, because of political pressure, we felt our pressure to change our faith, to change our names, to hide our identity.
4:44.5	No doubt when lives are threatened, no doubt the Sharia allows us to lower the bar, no doubt about that.
4:52.5	But when somebody's making fun of you, just because you don't want to be embarrassed, then there is no bar to be lowered.
4:58.0	You have to have the bravery, the courage, and the Izzah that comes in belief in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
5:04.0	The entire Syirah of the Prophet ﷺ, the entire lives of the Sahaba, it exemplifies this Izzah.
5:11.0	How many times was our Prophet ﷺ directly attacked? He was mocked. He was humiliated.
5:17.0	Things were thrown on him and said, never once did he act in a manner that is unbefitting, undignified.
5:23.5	His Izzah is what remains to this day and what the people did to him is lost. The same goes for the Sahaba.
5:30.0	They were persecuted so much so to death sometimes and they did not give up their Izzah.
5:35.0	Their dignity, that was there, that dignity that comes from Islam, that is the characteristic of the believer.
5:41.5	The believer takes pride, not in himself, but in the heritage and the legacy that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala blessed him with.
5:49.0	Now, one of the reasons why this topic becomes sensitive is it because it conflicts with other sources of pride.
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