Moreover, you have rendered wholehearted support to your Shaykh and ours—may Allah strengthen him—fulfilling that duty in the truest sense, unlike (1) those who merely claim to do so.

Therefore be patient, my brothers, with the position to which Allah has appointed you: championing His religion, straightening its crookedness, and confounding its enemies. Seek aid from Allah, and let not the reproach of any critic deter you for His sake (2). These are only a few passing days, and the religion is already victorious; Allah Himself has undertaken to uphold it (3) and to grant victory—both outwardly and inwardly, Allah willing—to the allies who rise in its defense.

Deploy, then, in the task before you whatever you can of lives, words, deeds, and wealth, so that you may thereby join your forebears, the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. You know well what they endured for Allah’s sake, as Khubayb declared when he was crucified upon the trunk (4):

All this I suffer for the sake of the Almighty; and if He so wills,
He will bless the sundered limbs of a shredded corpse.

You also know what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ himself suffered of hardship and hunger in the ravine of Banū Hāshim (5); what the earliest believers bore of torture and exile to Abyssinia; what the Emigrants and the Helpers faced at Uḥud, at Biʾr Maʿūnah, in the wars against the apostates, and in the campaigns of Syria and Iraq, and many other trials besides.

Observe how they offered their lives and their wealth to Allah, out of love for Him and yearning to meet Him. So likewise