If you grew up in the discipline of Islam, and yes, it is a discipline, you may not appreciate how extraordinarily disciplined Muslims are.
Your discipline eclipses the discipline of Kuffar, even those in the military. Do you realize that they see the five daily prayers as incredibly cumbersome? As Muslims, the discipline of Islam permeates every aspect of our lives. What and how we eat, how we put on our clothes, even how we enter and exit the bathroom.
Do you know that at a Christian church, people talk throughout the sermon? With only rare exceptions, there is complete silence during the Friday Khutbah…no one has to tell you to be quiet, because your Prophet ï·º already told you. When it is time to pray, everyone stands in a row; everyone bows and prostrates in unison, with military precision. When you have wudhu, you follow a strict order, and it is unthinkable to pray without wudhu.
Muslims are outstandingly disciplined. In fact, one of the primary reasons people feel reluctant to enter Islam is their fear that they will not be able to learn and follow all of these rules. All of this discipline is worship. There are no people anywhere whose lives are so comprehensively dedicated to worship, and who have so thoroughly committed themselves to disciplined lives.
So, appreciate this about yourselves and about your brothers and sisters. And before you talk about how hard the kuffar work, or how efficient they are, or what have you; remember that you adhere to a level of discipline in your daily lives that is unimaginable for them