Being Muslim When You're the Minority | Lessons from Iceland

About this lecture

In this khutbah delivered to the Muslim community of Iceland, Sheikh Yasir Qadhi draws on two powerful prophetic predictions about Islam's global spread to remind a small Muslim minority that their very presence fulfills the words of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). He then unpacks the famous "Hadith of Salam" — the Prophet's first public address upon arriving in Medina — and extracts four timeless principles for Muslims living as minorities: spreading peace, feeding the hungry, maintaining strong families, and praying in the night. The lecture concludes with frank, practical advice on protecting one's faith, raising Muslim children in a secular environment, acting as ambassadors of Islam through character, and above all, maintaining unity within the Muslim community.