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Quran verses about Dawah

مَا عَلَى الرَّسُولِ إِلَّا الْبَلَاغُ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا تَكْتُمُونَ (99)

Not upon the Messenger is [responsibility] except [for] notification. And Allah knows whatever you reveal

and whatever you conceal. (Al Maidah 5:99)
 

Doc5Since in the Qur’an the word “da`wah” appears numerous times, only those verses that speak of or imply the preaching and spreading of Islam are dealt here. The following lines of the Qur’an contain the word “da`wah” with this connotation.

وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِي عَنِّي فَإِنِّي قَرِيبٌۖأُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِۖفَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا لِي وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا بِي لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ ‎﴿١٨٦﴾‏

 

If some servants of mine asked you about Me, I am indeed close and I respond to the call of a suppliant if he calls upon Me. So let them respond to My (invitation), so that they believe in Me and may be on the right side. (Al-Baqarah 2:186)

Doc5أُولَٰئِكَ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى النَّارِ ۖوَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ وَالْمَغْفِرَةِ بِإِذْنِهِۖوَيُبَيِّنُ آيَاتِهِ لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ ‎﴿٢٢١﴾

Those (unbelievers) invite to fire, and God invites to paradise. (Al-Baqarah 2:221)

Doc5 وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِۚوَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ ‎﴿١٠٤﴾‏

Let there be a group of people among you who invite to goodness, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong. (Aal `Imran 3:104)

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وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَىٰ دَارِ السَّلَامِ وَيَهْدِي مَن يَشَاءُ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ‎﴿٢٥﴾‏

And God invites to the abode of peace and guides those whom He pleases to the straight path. (Yunus 10:25)

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 قُلْ هَٰذِهِ سَبِيلِي أَدْعُو إِلَى اللَّهِۚعَلَىٰ بَصِيرَةٍ أَنَا وَمَنِ اتَّبَعَنِيۖوَسُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَمَا أَنَا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ  ‎﴿١٠٨ ﴾‏ 

 Say, “This is my way; I invite to Allah with insight, I and those who follow me. And exalted is Allah; and I am not of those who associate others with Him.”e  . (Yusuf 12:108)

Doc5 ﴾…قُلْ إِنَّمَا أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ وَلَا أُشْرِكَ بِهِۚإِلَيْهِ أَدْعُو وَإِلَيْهِ مَآبِ ‎﴿٣٦

Say: I was commanded to worship God, and not to associate anyone with Him. I invite and my return is to Him. (Ar-Ra`d 13:36)

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وَأَنذِرِ النَّاسَ يَوْمَ يَأْتِيهِمُ الْعَذَابُ فَيَقُولُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا رَبَّنَا أَخِّرْنَا إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ قَرِيبٍ نُّجِبْ دَعْوَتَكَ وَنَتَّبِعِ الرُّسُلَۗأَوَلَمْ تَكُونُوا أَقْسَمْتُم مِّن قَبْلُ مَا لَكُم مِّن زَوَالٍ ‎﴿٤٤﴾

And, [O Muhammad], warn the people of a Day when the punishment will come to them and those who did wrong will say, “Our Lord, delay us for a short term; we will answer Your call and follow the messengers.” [But it will be said], “Had you not sworn, before, that for you there would be no cessation?. (Ibrahim 14:44)

 

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ادْعُ إِلَىٰ سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَالْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِۖوَجَادِلْهُم بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُۚإِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۖوَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ ‎﴿١٢٥﴾‏ 

Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, 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. (An-Nahl 16:125)

 

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وَإِنَّكَ لَتَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ‎﴿٧٣﴾‏ 

Indeed you invite them to a straight path. (Al-Mu’minun 23:73)

 

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وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَىٰ دَارِ السَّلَامِ وَيَهْدِي مَن يَشَاءُ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ‎﴿٢٥﴾‏

And Allah invites to the Home of Peace and guides whom He wills to a straight path (Yunus 10:25)

 

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وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلًا مِّمَّن دَعَا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا وَقَالَ إِنَّنِي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ‎﴿٣٣﴾‏

Who is better in speech than the one who invites to God. (Fussilat 41:33)

 

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تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ‎﴿١٧﴾‏

Invite those who turn back and turn away face. (Al-Ma`arij 70:17)

 

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قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِي لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا ‎﴿٥﴾‏ فَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَائِي إِلَّا فِرَارًا ‎﴿٦﴾

He said: I have been inviting my people day and night, but my invitation increased but flight. (Nuh 71:5, 6)

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Hadith on Da’wah: Guidance to Islam better than whole world

Abu Rafi’ reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “For Allah to guide a man by your hand is better for you than everything over which the sun rises and sets.”

Source: al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr lil-Ṭabarānī 930

Grade: Hasan (fair) according to Al-Suyuti

عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَأَنْ يَهْدِيَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَى يَدَيْكَ رَجُلًا خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِمَّا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ وَغَرَبَتْ

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1. Fulfill an Obligation Upon Us

Da’wah is recognised by the majority of scholars as being obligatory upon every Muslim. Therefore, we can interpret that the act of da’wah is something of great importance within Islam and more importantly to Allah sub??nahu wa ta'?la (glorified and exalted be He). Consequently, by fulfilling our obligatory acts we can look to achieve the pleasure of Allah sub??nahu wa ta'?la (glorified and exalted be He) and get close to Him. As it states in a hadith, Allah sub??nahu wa ta'?la (glorified and exalted be He) says:

“…And My slave does not come close to Me with anything more beloved to Me than what I have made obligatory upon him. My slave continues to come nearer to Me through voluntary deeds until I love him, and when I love him, I become his ears with which he hears, I become his sight with which he sees, I become his hands with which he strikes, I become his legs with which he strides. If he asks Me, I shall surely grant his request.” [Bukhari]

This beautiful hadith highlights the massive reward of completing the obligatory acts that can motivate us to carry out this important duty. In contrast, it is worth considering the consequences of neglecting something that is obligatory upon us. For example, we understand Allah sub??nahu wa ta'?la (glorified and exalted be He) has prescribed 5 daily prayers and the severe consequences we may face for missing just one of those prayers. Consequently, we should give great consideration to da’wah before abandoning or even neglecting this and therefore look to making it part of our lives in some way, shape or form.

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Definitions and terminology

 

The word da’wah comes from the Arabic trilateral verb stem da-a-ya-

Linguistically, da’wah means ‘to invite’ or ‘to call’.

The technical / shari meaning of the word da’wah includes: ‘calling people to the din of Allah and his Messenger. It is used in this sense in Q. 16:125.

 

ادْعُ إِلَى سَبِيلِ ادْعُ إِلَىٰ سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَالْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ ۖوَجَادِلْهُم بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُۚإِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۖوَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ ‎ ﴿١٢٥﴾‏

Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, 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.  (Surat al-Nahl, 16:125)

 

Scholarly statements regarding ‘da’wah’

 

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said, ‘Da’wah is to call people to believe in Allah and what His Messengers came with by accepting what they came with and obeying them in what they commanded….

‘Da’wah to Allah entails calling to all that He commanded and forbidding all that He forbade; and that is amr bi’l maruf wa’l-nahy ‘an al-munkar [‘enjoining the good and forbidding the evil’] precisely.’

Shaykh Abd al-Aziz b. Abd Allah b. Baz wrote concerning da’wah, ‘As for its [da’wah’s] ruling, the evidences within the Qur’an and Sunnah indicate the obligation of establishing da’wah to Allah and that it is from the fundamental obligatory duties.’

The Qur’an is a book of dawah.

If we consider the stories of the Prophets we do not encounter descriptions of what they looked like, how they prayed or the amount of dhikr they made. If you were to be asked, ‘How many times did Nüh fast a week?’ you will struggle to find an answer.

The reason for this is that the stories of the Prophets are stories of da’wah, every single Prophet was sent to humanity to deliver the message of tawhid, the message of Islam.

The Qur’an commands us to give da’wah in various places, for instance, Allah says:

وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ ۚ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ ‎﴿١٠٤﴾‏ 

Let there arise out of You a group of people inviting to All that is good (Islam), enjoining Al-Ma’rûf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and All that Islam orders one to do) and forbidding Al-Munkar (polytheism and disbelief and All that Islam has forbidden). and it is they who are the successful.(Surat Al Imran, 3:104)

كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ  ۗ وَلَوْ آمَنَ أَهْلُ الْكِتَابِ لَكَانَ خَيْرًا لَّهُم ۚ مِّنْهُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ ‎﴿١١٠﴾‏.

You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah. If only the People of the Scripture had believed, it would have been better for them. Among them are believers, but most of them are defiantly disobedient.  (Surat Al Imran, 3:110)

 

Your Da’wah team

Select your ameer/ah, who will…

• Speak on behalf of the team – Don’t forget the etiquettes of being a leader, it is not a dictatorship and a good leader consults everyone for their opinion and input. Just like the leadership style of the Prophet Muhammad().

• Facilitate team discussion – Remember that not everyone is confident and an extrovert, make a conscious effort to get everyone involved in the discussion.

• Make the final decision – There may be difference of opinion but it is the ameer/ah’s job to make a decision based upon the varied views.

• Keep your team quiet while others are talking This is not only good etiquette but by keeping the team quiet ensures that they are learning from what other people have to say.

As a team…

• Introduce yourselves

Select your Team Name

• Discuss your projects

Write down minutes of your meetings.

Create a WhatsApp group or other means to communicate with eachothers

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