As a religion and spiritual order, Islam offers
comprehensive ethical and moral guidance on all aspects of life in its varied
facets. And a Muslim will be able to find solutions within the framework of the
teachings of Islam to the many problems he or she is confronted with. This can
be done even without injecting ideas and processes antithetical to the Islamic
perspective (Bid’ah) by seeking to equip oneself
with the correct knowledge of Islam. Apart from practicing Sahih Al Islam, a Muslim
ought to share the richness of the Islamic path- “beauty, rationality, practicality and
completeness”- and its innate ability to
appeal to the human mind with all of mankind.
In his Friday Sermon of March 09, 2012 Khalifatullah
Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius gave a discourse on how to conduct the preaching of Islam and
underscored certain points to keep in mind in Dawa.
Read the Extracts from the Sermon:
(1) Planning
Dawa requires effective planning and
strategy formulation. We should never do Dawa by haste. We have to plan
it out very carefully with deliberation. We have to plan how to do Dawa
to various kinds of peoples coming from different backgrounds. We need to plan
especially if we are organizing Dawa for groups through lectures or seminars.
We have to plan ahead of time, plan for the theme, topics, venue, time
particulars, speakers concerned. We have to consider planning what to say and
how to say it. As Dai-Illallah, it is imperative for us to plan but we
have to acknowledge that Allah is the Best of planners like mentioned in the
following verses of the Holy Quran:
“And the disbelievers
planned, but Allah planned. And Allah is the best of planners.” (3: 55) and “But they plan, and Allah
plans. And Allah is the best of planners.” (8: 31)
Thus, we have to pray for His help
to bless our plan, our Dawa because “When He decrees a plan,
He only says to it, ‘Be’, and it is!” (3: 48); and that, “He does command according to His will and plan”. (5: 2)
(2) Inviting people with Hikma
(wisdom) and beautiful preaching.
Allah the Almighty commands us, so that we can be
successful Dai-Illallah. Allah says:
“Invite to the way of your
Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching, and argue with them in a way that is
best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He
is most knowing of who is (rightly) guided.” (16: 126)