Excerpts from the Friday Sermon of the Grand Mosque
Friday, 21 Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1447 AH | December 12, 2025
His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Ṣāliḥ ibn Humaid
With integrity, manliness, and dignity, societies become firmly established in strength. Families are preserved through cohesion, generations are protected, nations are safeguarded from penetration and disintegration, benefits flourish, achievements are strengthened, and harms and corruption are repelled.
Every society has its traditions, values, and principles that form the title of its cohesion and stability. These can only be realized through the harmony and bonding of families, preserving their foundations, and raising their children upon virtues, manliness, and noble values so that generations inherit them from one another.
Among these noble values and ethics are: honoring elders, returning to them for counsel, showing mercy to the young, caring for them, guiding them, regulating their conduct, instilling lofty aspirations within them, so they may learn the glories of their ancestors, safeguard their religion, take pride in it, and uphold their values.
Manliness is a noble, inherited quality and a praiseworthy trait that places society in an elevated position one of dignity, respect, high morals, refined conduct, pride in religion and homeland, and reverence for history, language, and heritage. It is a balanced union of strength and mercy, firmness and gentleness, courage and discipline, and adherence to truth with oneself and others.
Manliness compels its bearer to elevate himself above trivial matters and base pursuits. The best means to cultivate manliness is through education and raising men. Manliness cannot be firmly established, nor men truly raised, except under the shade of sound beliefs and noble virtues.
Among the greatest means of preserving integrity and manliness is adherence to religion and identity, pride in belonging to family, and noble customs. It is a firm path when societies commit to it and adopt educational methodologies based upon it thereby safeguarding generations from dissolution, fragility, and deviation.
One of the most important foundations of manliness is preserving the Arabic language speaking it, learning it, and teaching it. How could it not be so when it is the language of the Noble Qur’an, the vessel of the Great Revelation, and the radiant Sharīʿah? Weakness in one’s Arabic weakens understanding and awareness, especially for those who stand in positions of guidance, direction, and leadership.
Excerpts from the Friday Sermon of the Grand Mosque
Friday, 21 Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1447 AH | December 12, 2025
His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Ṣāliḥ ibn Humaid
With integrity, manliness, and dignity, societies become firmly established in strength. Families are preserved through cohesion, generations are protected, nations are safeguarded from penetration and disintegration, benefits flourish, achievements are strengthened, and harms and corruption are repelled.
Every society has its traditions, values, and principles that form the title of its cohesion and stability. These can only be realized through the harmony and bonding of families, preserving their foundations, and raising their children upon virtues, manliness, and noble values so that generations inherit them from one another.
Among these noble values and ethics are: honoring elders, returning to them for counsel, showing mercy to the young, caring for them, guiding them, regulating their conduct, instilling lofty aspirations within them, so they may learn the glories of their ancestors, safeguard their religion, take pride in it, and uphold their values.
Manliness is a noble, inherited quality and a praiseworthy trait that places society in an elevated position one of dignity, respect, high morals, refined conduct, pride in religion and homeland, and reverence for history, language, and heritage. It is a balanced union of strength and mercy, firmness and gentleness, courage and discipline, and adherence to truth with oneself and others.
Manliness compels its bearer to elevate himself above trivial matters and base pursuits. The best means to cultivate manliness is through education and raising men. Manliness cannot be firmly established, nor men truly raised, except under the shade of sound beliefs and noble virtues.
Among the greatest means of preserving integrity and manliness is adherence to religion and identity, pride in belonging to family, and noble customs. It is a firm path when societies commit to it and adopt educational methodologies based upon it thereby safeguarding generations from dissolution, fragility, and deviation.
One of the most important foundations of manliness is preserving the Arabic language speaking it, learning it, and teaching it. How could it not be so when it is the language of the Noble Qur’an, the vessel of the Great Revelation, and the radiant Sharīʿah? Weakness in one’s Arabic weakens understanding and awareness, especially for those who stand in positions of guidance, direction, and leadership.
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