The way of a

MUSLIM

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Dawah Style

•Tough•Easy•Educational

Attitude

•Humble•Arrogant

Unity

•Tawheed, Q&S•Everything else

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Knowledge: of the Straight Path

• Own opinions (Raaee)• Qur’an only• Qur’an & Sunnah• Qur’an, Sunnah + Innovations• Qur’an, Sunnah + Taqleed

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Sects

“Indeed, the people of the Book before you split-up into 72 sects. And this nation will split-up into 73 sects, 72 are in the Fire and one is in Paradise.” In another narration: “All of them are in the Fire except one.” It was asked: Who is that one? He replied: “That which I and my Companions are upon.” [Hasan: Related by Abu Dawud (no.4597), Ahmad (4/102), at-Tirmidhi (5/62) and al-Hakim (1/128) and others. It was authenticated by al-Hafidh al-’Iraqi in Takhrijul-Ihya (3/199) and al-Albaani in as-Saheehah (no.204).]

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Criteria

“I am leaving amongst you two things, you will never go astray as long as you cling to them: the Book of Allah and my Sunnah. They will not separate from each other, until you meet me at the Lake.”[Sahih: Related by al-Hakim from Abu Hurayrah. It was authenticated by al-Albaani in Takhrijul-Mishkat (no.186)]

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Innovation (Bid’ah)

The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) stated repeatedly that: "Every newly-invented thing is a bid'ah (innovation), every bid'ah is a going astray, and every going astray will be in the Fire." [Reported by an-Nisaa'I, also narrated by Ahmad, Abu Dawud and Ibn Maajah]

The Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) used to say, when beginning a khutbah: “…the best speech is the Book of Allah and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad. The worst of things are those which are newly-invented, and every innovation is a going astray…" [Muslim, 867]

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Taqleed

“They (Jews & Christians) took their rabbis and their priests to be their lords besides Allah”[at-Taubah 9:31]Adi Ibn Hatim said: “O Messenger of Allah! They do not worship them (i.e. rabbis & priests)." The Messenger said: “They certainly do. Don't they make the Halal (allowed) Haram (disallowed) and the Haram Halal, then you follow them?" He answered yes. The Messenger said: "That is worshiping them."[Narrated by Ahmad, At-Tirmidhi and Ibn Jarir]

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Taqleed

Ibn Abbas said: “I fear that stones will descend upon you from the sky, that I say to you that the Messenger of Allah said; and you say to me that Abu Bakr and Umar say something else!”[Hasan: Related by Ahmad (no.3121), al-Khatib in al-Faqih wal-Muttafaqqih (1/145) and Ibn ’Abdul-Barr in Jami’ Bayanul-’Ilm (2/196), from Sa’id ibn Jubayr.]

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Dawah Style

•Tough•Easy•Educational

Attitude

•Humble•Arrogant

Unity

•Tawheed, Q&S•Everything else

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Dawah Style

• Which approach to use?–Tough/Stern Dawah–Easy/L VE♥ /Emotional–Educational

Dawah

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Dawah Style

•Tough•Easy•Educational

Attitude

•Humble•Arrogant

Unity

•Tawheed, Q&S•Everything else

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Attitude (Internal)

• Humble/Non-judgmental? • Arrogant/Egotistical?

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Dawah Style

•Tough•Easy•Educational

Attitude

•Humble•Arrogant

Unity

•Tawheed, Q&S•Everything else

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Unity

• How can the Ummah be united?–Tawheed–Qur’an & Sunnah

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[an-Noor 24:55] Allah has promised those among you who believe, and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them succession to (the rulers) in the land... And He will surely give them in exchange a safe security after their fear (provided) they worship Me and do not associate anything (in worship) with Me. But whoever disbelieves after this, they are the Fasiqun (rebellious, disobedient to Allah).

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ه� م ان � ا ا �س� ب ي ا و ل � �م ن ن ا �ذ� ل م�ا م� وم� م� م� م� م�� م �ظ� م�ب

ن د� ت ن� و ه� م% ا ه�م� ا )�ك ل ٮ �و م�ا م� م� م� م� �� و[al-Anaam 6:82] It is those who believe and confuse not their belief with Zulm (shirk), for them (only) there is security and they are the guided.

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[al-Qalam 68:8-9] So obey you not the deniers. They wish that you should compromise (in religion out of courtesy) with them, so they (too) would compromise with you.

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Examples of Unity

• Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) & Quraish – Not even a day– Compare this to man who urinated in the Masjid

• Musa (a.s.) & Haroon (a.s.)• Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) helping non-Muslims with

charity• Abu Bakr (r.a.) & the Zakat rejecters• Jews teaching Muslims

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Dawah Style

•Tough•Easy•Educational

Attitude

•Humble•Arrogant

Unity

•Tawheed, Q&S•Everything else