Guidance on Preserving the Blessing of Security and Adhering to the Religion

Question:
This questioner wants a word of guidance from Your Excellency regarding the continuation of the lifelong association we are currently in, especially since we see many countries and peoples around us in a great affliction, with people around us suffering. So what do you advise us? May Allah bless you.

Answer:
Yes, there is no doubt that, praise and thanks be to Allah, we are living in a great blessing under the banner of Islam, under the leadership of our ruler, may Allah guide him, and the guidance of the scholars. This is a great blessing. Those who have fallen into what they are in now are doing so because of their negligence regarding Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
Their situation has reached the point of forbidding the hijab, forbidding women from wearing the hijab. A woman does not enter any sphere without being unveiled; they strip the hijab from her. Now, the hijab is a religious matter. What harm is there to you if the Muslim woman is veiled and treats you with the manners of the Shari'ah? This is an honor for you and for her. But their enmity, may Allah protect us from it, has turned against the religion until they have turned against the manifestations of this religion. They have forbidden the woman from the hijab, forbidden the honoring of the beard and providing the beard for men, and forced them to shave their beards. What benefit is there for them in shaving the beards and stripping away the attribute of manhood? It is nothing but enmity toward this religion. They have forbidden ruling by the Shari'ah and have replaced it with man-made, positive laws.
And so, they have a great deal of protection for shrines, protection for pilgrimage sites, and protection for religious innovations and newly invented matters. In fact, they exploit these resources financially, taking financial resources from graves and shrines, may Allah protect us from that. If it were not for Allah’s forbearance toward His servants, you would have seen something even worse than this.
Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, intended to make them taste some of the punishment so that they would return to His religion, so that they would return to His religion and hold fast to His creed. This is clear in this land, praise be to Allah, when it was upon a sound creed, and its lands were purified from the worship of shrines and idols, and it referred to the law of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, ruling by the Shari'ah. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, protected it, and the people around us are preaching.
And we are in safety, praise be to Allah. This is not by our power or our strength, but rather because of our religion, our holding fast to this religion, and praise be to Allah. Yes.