A: I advise the people of Kuwait and every Muslim to fear Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He). This is my advice to the people of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, to every Muslim in the gulf and to all other Muslims. I advise all Muslims to fear Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He), to stand firm on His Din, to thank Allah for the graces of victory, good health, and the deterring of the unjust.
Thanking Allah is to obey Him (Exalted be He) and His Messenger (peace be upon him), to consistently perform the five obligatory Salahs (Prayers) at their appointed times, to pay Zakah (obligatory charity), to observe Sawm (Fast) during Ramadan, to perform Hajj only one time during one's whole lifetime (if they have not done before), to obey Allah regarding all other matters such as being dutiful to one's parents, maintaining the ties of kinship, making Da`wah (calling to Islam), enjoining Ma`ruf and forbidding Munkar, and all other good deeds. A person should also thank Allah by abandoning all sins. I thus advise all Muslims to thank Allah by carrying out His commands, abandoning His prohibitions, and being patient while standing firm on this. Allah (Glorified be He) says:
By Al'Asr (the time). Verily, man is in loss, Except those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth [i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (AlMa'ruf) which Allâh has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (AlMunkar which Allâh has forbidden], and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allâh's Cause during preaching His religion of Islâmic Monotheism or Jihâd).
Help you one another in AlBirr and AtTaqwâ (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression.
This is the duty of all Muslims. They all have to help one another in virtue and righteousness, exchange sincere advice for the sake of Allah, and abandon disobeying Allah. They should not help one another in sin and transgression such as Shirk, drinking Khamr (intoxicant), Zina (premarital sexual intercourse and/or adultery), gambling, and all things prohibited by Allah and His Messenger. All Muslims also have to recommend one another to the truth and to be patient enough to stand firm on it. They have to forbid one another from committing sins or transgression. In other words, they have to forbid Munkar and enjoin Ma`ruf. All the foregoing is to express thankfulness to Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He). Allah (Exalted be He) says:
The believers, men and women, are Auliyâ' (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another; they enjoin (on the people) AlMa'rûf (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and all that Islâm orders one to do), and forbid (people) from AlMunkar (i.e. polytheism and disbelief of all kinds, and all that Islâm has forbidden); they perform AsSalât (IqâmatasSalât), and give the Zakât, and obey Allâh and His Messenger. Allâh will have His Mercy on them. Surely Allâh is AllMighty, AllWise.
These are the characteristics and morals of the believers for which Allah (Exalted be He) promised them that He will have His Mercy and Victory in this world and happiness and salvation in the hereafter. May Allah grant all Muslims success, firmness on Din, and guidance!