Allah, The Sublime,
says:
"And who is better in speech than
him who prayeth unto his Lord and doth
right, and saith: Lord, I am of those who surrender unto Him". And saith: Call unto the
way of thy Lord with wisdom
and fair exhortation, and reason with them in the better way." And He saith: "And there
may spring from you a nation who
invite to goodness, and forbid indecency. Such are they who are successful".
These plain revelations limit
the way of holding the mission and the qualities of the Da'ee in seven points:
- Preaching Islam should be to and for Allah.
- The preacher should do good work.
- He or she must declare his Faith in Islam and say:
"Lo I am of those who surrender unto Him.
- Summoning unto the path of Allah should be made
via the rational proof, namely through "wisdom".
- Preaching Islam should be stimulated by "beautiful
reminding" and by fair exhortation.
- The Da'ee should make people link their ideas with
real life as they live it. This is no doubt the
best and the most elevated type of discussion because
the debaters grasp what is going on around them through
the rational proof "And reason with them in the better
way."
- The message (Da'wa) should be carried by the group so
as to achieve success, because the Qur'an denotes that
the success of the Da'wa will be realized when a group
holds and calls for Islam. "Such are those who are
successful."
The Prophet of Allah says: "You are fully aware of your
affairs unless two inebriates manifest themselves in you:
The inebriety of ignorance and the inebriety of the love of worldly life." You will order
people to enjoin goodness, forbid the abominable, and strive for Allah's sake. But when
the love of this world gets the better of you, you will not order people to do good and
forbid the detestable, nor will you strive for Allah's sake.
Those who bear the Book and the Sunnah at that time are like the early predecessors of
Emigrants and the Helpers.
Ali, may Allah honor him, said:
"The World is never void of
one who poses in honor of Allah's evidence", whether he is well known or obscure,
lest Allah's proofs and indisputable evidences fall into disuse. How many are they? And
where are they? Those are,
O Allah, by your side, the least in number but the greatest in value. Through them Allah
preserves His proofs and
indisputable evidences which they unto their equals pass and in their hearts implant.
Knowledge takes them into the reality of insight, so they
pursue the spirit of absolute certainty, find easy what the rich befall, get used to what the
ignorant find wild, and take life along
with bodies whose souls cling to Allah. Those are the inheritors of the Lord in his land
and the ones who summon unto his religion, Oh, Oh, How much one
craves to see them!
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