Dawah

[SomeGuySeekingKnowledge]

Salam, Dawah. How are you supposed to give dawah to a Muslim and to a non-Muslim?

Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah believe that we should go to every Muslim we know at our work/neighborhood/universities and approach them with the words of Allah. That's all good but what happens when a brother is busy working/studying/whatever, wouldn't he be disturbed? What do we do then?

So I just want to know what is the correct "way" of giving dawah?

[jaylen]

Well I'm sure someone has a few minutes if not more to spare. I mean we're NOT that busy. On the weekend for an hour or whatever will suffice. It really depends. You can go out for coffee and on the way there you can give dawah. It really depends on your situation and how you spend time with this person. I mean at work I have muslims with me and I just talk about whatever I learned to them. Also when it comes time for prayer I remind them of it. It's really very simple.. Just think about how you could fit it into that persons schedule and the work at it. Also if you know of an event that is coming up just invite him/her to it. Use your imagination and Allah SWT will make it easy. Try to make it fun as well...not like "here!" it's more pleasant when it's casual.

[SomeGuySeekingKnowledge]

Yes, that's true, every single Muslim has that responsibility but I am talking more about the organized dawah. Where groups are sent out and each person has a role, etc... I have seen people with different views on this issue. Just wanted to clear it up.

[jaylen]

I'm not really sure what you're asking then. Like what are you looking to do for this brother?

I was listening to a lecture today about the Dajjal. This might help you, Allahu Alim. It was stating that one of the many fitnas of the Dajjal will be that he will have power to give gold, silver and all worldly possessions to those who follow him. If we don't follow him he will take everything away from us. To the point where a true mumin will hold his sujjud as his prized possession. NOW in comparison to our times the imam said "if I were to give you $50.00 to simply go pray at the masjid. For the purpose of praying jammah would you go?" the answer is an obvious YES! why? because you get a benefit. BUT look at the benefit we said YES to. It's a worldly benefit YET the reward for the deed is MUCH GREATER. Why do we not see that? Also busy stands for Being Under Satans Yoke. MAke sense to you?

[Nafeesa]

Yes, that's true, every single Muslim has that responsibility but I am talking more about the organized dawah. Where groups are sent out and each person has a role, etc... I have seen people with different views on this issue. Just wanted to clear it up.

talking about islam to a non muslim is called dawah, it literaly means invitation.

talking to islam to a muslim is called naseeha.

these shud be put into two different catorgories because the way ud talk to a muslim and a non muslim about islam is different. because when giving dawah to a non muslim u shud be stressing about tawheed. n just focusing on that.

in terms of how to giv it... how longs a piece of string? thers millions of ways of giving dawah, depends where n when ur doing it. like for example my husband does a dawah stall, they take a little table out in to the middle of the city centre, put lots of info n booklets from like fisabilillah prodctions etc, n loads of other islamic leaflets n things for basic info, n they stand there for a few hours, n a few ppl will come up to them n chat to them, they know its a stall about islam cuz theres a big huge poster thing there saying DISCOVER ISLAM in big huge red letters. so they know what its about n its good because they come n chat to u freely n willingly n cuz u gave them the means to be able to do so. more often then not theyl go away with some knowledge about islam, n itl open their mind up n theyll wanna find out more. my husband some times chats to ppl for an hour if not longer. its wikid. inshallah we wanna set up a sisters stall next to theres so the women can chat to us.

they have loads of non muslims coming up to them talking about islam asking them questions etc etc.

in terms of when ppl are busy like at work or uni or wateva. u dnt need to bombard em with info, when ur sittin together or wateva n ur chatting about something then u can involve islam in the conversation because there is nothing in this whole world where islam doesnt have a solution for or not been mentioned in islam etc. this is such an open topic.

in terms of neighbours n things, its no good knockin on their door saying hello im so n so n im here to talk to u about islam they wnt wanna know. i think in this case its better to speak with ur actions rather then ur words. so like say if ur sweeping ur front garden, sweep theres for em aswell. if theres rubbish in their garden remove it for em, if its rubish day, bring their bin back into the yard for em. etc etc. soon enough they will see ur gud actions n start talkin with u, even if its just a hello gud morning or wateva.

if its eid send em some nice food, or even on just a regular day, giv em some food. then invite em round etc etc. theres so many ways of giving dawah, u dnt have to limit it. if theyre miffed as to why ur bein so nice to em, theyll ask u, n just say my religion tells me to look after my neighbour. what other religion asks of u to do this? none, theyll be amazed.