Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A How to Deal With Negativity When You Start Practising

How should one respond to personal insults from members of the

society in regards to the Islamic dress? Or in general, how should

one respond to people, even within the Muslim family who does not

support they're coming towards Islam. That's quite a difficult

affair. But the main thing is, as we read in the Hadith, Iman is

half of patients. There you go, the patient's begins there, just

realize, firstly, you have to be strong enough, because if you're

not strong enough, you'll give it up the next day. So the first

thing to do is you're going to have to with have a lot of

strength within you that I'm doing this for the sake of Allah.

When abuse comes, I'm going to deal with it. As long as you're

proud within your own self, you're confident within your own self,

and you're strong in your own self, then nothing is going to

shake you, you'll actually Excuse Excuse, and you will actually

display that confidence that confidence will be shown in your

face, right. So you have to be strong enough. So you have to get

the theology of it, right, the belief aspect of it right, once

you've got that, then one is you never retaught you never, you

never show a bad character because otherwise, they will tie bad

character to your your your clothing, or your you know, your

Islamic expression, whatever you're doing. And that's it that's

really harmful. So you're going to have to really bear in patients

just like it's, you require a lot of effort to actually change your

garments or the way you cover and you start covering, for example,

likewise, you're going to have to have the inner fortification to

come together, then of course, wherever possible, generally, what

you'll see is that there will be this kind of negative response in

the beginning, used to you shaytaan is making them rebel to

try to force you and pressure you. But you'll see that soon, they

will get used to it. Generally speaking, it might sometimes it

takes a week, sometimes it takes five weeks, sometimes it takes

three months, sometimes it takes a year. Right and sometimes people

will still gonna buy if the other person is really stubborn for

whatever reason. But at the end of the day, generally it does become

easier afterwards. You just have to deal with the initial fallout

from it, the initial pressure that comes from it, but strengthen

yourself inside and know that every difficulty you're facing in

this path, it's a reward for you, and it's also eliminating some of

your sins. So when you know that it becomes easier