When we love something, it’s hard not to talk about it. Our minds and hearts become so preoccupied with it that sometimes we’d feel we’d explode! The same thing with Islam. When we’ve reached that stage where Islam turns from a common idea, to a common practice, and then into passion, you just can’t help but just spreaaaaaad the loveeeeeeee. So this is where da’wah comes in.

Say (O Muhammad SAW): “This is my way; I invite unto Allah with sure knowledge, I and whosoever follows me (also must invite others to Allah) with sure knowledge…” (Yusuf : 108)

Thus, we all have the responsibility to spread Islam. We don’t have to go knocking everybody’s door, or stand around at the city and preach to the shoppers. For instance, the time after the peace treaty of al-Hubaidiyah. People came to Islam because they were amazed with the Muslim’s way of life.  Hence, all we have to do is become Muslims - as simple as that. Be like the flower and the bees will come to you. So what’s stopping us?

1. “I don’t know enough.”

The Prophet Muhammad S.A.W urged us to relay knowledge from the Quran and the sunnah even if it’s just one ayat, or one word. Surely there’s at least one thing that we know about Islam, if not more than one. So we should relay this knowledge to others, and thus it will become our da’wah.

2. “I’ll do da’wah when I become a perfect Muslim.”

Dearest brothers and sisters, we will NEVER be perfect. Allah has created us human with all humanly attributes who make mistakes, occassionaly forgetful, have desires, etc. Even the state of our qalb (heart) isn’t stable. So we’re going to wait until we’re perfet Muslims, we’ll never come round to doing da’wah.

3. “I can’t get rid of my own sins.”

Hadhrat Anas r.a. relates: “We inquired of the Holy Prophet SAW: “O Prophet of Allah, is it right that we should not enjoin virtue unless we practise all the virtues ourselves, and should not forbit the wrongs unless we ourselves completely abstain from them all? ‘Nay,’ said the Prophet SAW, ‘do enjoin others to practise good deeds even though you do not practise all of them, and do forbid evil actions even though you do not abstain from them all.’”

The shame of not doing something when others are doing it or doing it better, or the shame of practicing what one doesn’t preach might eventually hit us. It could be one of the first things that could turn us into better muslims.

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Friday, November 14th, 2008 @ 3:56 pm To see, to hear, to learn, activities
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