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Allah describes this conduct as follows:

Give good news to the humble-hearted.” (Al-Hajj; 34)
You who believe! If any of you renounce your reli-
gion, Allah will bring forward a people whom He
loves and who love Him, humble to the believers,
fierce to the unbelievers, who strive in the Way of
Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer.
That is the unbounded favor of Allah which He gives
to whoever He wills. Allah is Boundless, All-
Knowing. (Surat al-Ma’ida; 54)
As conveyed in the verse above, believers show modesty
to other believers but do not remain humble before unbe-
lievers. This attribute of believers is mentioned in another
verse:
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those
who are with him are fierce to the unbelievers, mer-
ciful to one another… (Surat al-Fath; 29)
Allah speaks to believers in the Qur’an as a close and inti-

mate friend. And He commands them to challenge infidels and
hypocrites about their ideas. For this reason, a Muslim will
always behave towards a hypocrite or an unbeliever as Allah
dictates in the Qur’an. Apart from the Qur’an and the Sunna,
there is no other criterion by which to determine a believer’s
behavior.
Thus, it is an act of worship to love and respect other
Muslims and to be a deterrent towards unbelievers and hyp-
ocrites who harbor grudges against the religion of Allah and
employ all means to oppose it, covertly or openly. A show of