If You Stick to the Truth, the People will Reject You

Imaam al-Albaanee, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said:

If you talk about Tawheed, the people of shirk reject you. If you talk about the Sunnah, the people of bid'ah reject you. If you talk about proofs and evidences, the people of (blameworthy) blind adherence to the mathabs and the ignorant ones reject you.

If you talk about obedience to the rulers in (what is) good, supplicating for them, advising them (i.e. in private) and (about) the creed of Ahlus-Sunnah, the khawaarij and the people of illegal partisanship reject you. If you talk about Islaam and establishing it in (our) daily lives, the secularists, the liberalists and those similar to them - those who want to cut off the religion from (our) daily lives - reject you.

Ahlus-Sunnah are extremely strange! They (i.e. all these misguided groups) wage war against us (i.e. Ahlus-Sunnah) through all means. They wage war against us through audible broadcasts and writings to the extent that the family and friends wage war against this stranger - the one adhering to the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of Allaah’s Messenger (SallAllaahu 'alayhi wa sallam). 

However, despite this, we are happy with this strangeness and we take pride in it because the Messenger of Allaah (SallAllaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) praised the strangers. He (SallAllaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: 

‘’Indeed Islaam began as (something) strange and it will return being strange just as it began, so tuubaa (i.e. a tree in Paradise or something good) is for the strangers”. 

It was said, who are they O Messenger of Allaah? He said: 

‘’They are those rectify (i.e. themselves and others) when the people become corrupted.’’

[Silsilah as-Saheehah, 1273 (Abridged)]