siblings

[000]

does anyone have the problem that they are trying to practise Islam and their siblings take no intrest whatsoever or when they do its extremly short lived. I was not practising until a while ago and my siblings behaviour and dress and attitude just depresses me and angers me. I also feel that others may judge me because of how they behave even though I know this is silly. one of my parents feels it is good to practice and tries their best to encourage them and does practice themself and the other is still very cultural and totally unaware of what they do. I know I should be encouraging them to Islam but they literally dont listen and ignore when you tell them something is haraam and why and only join in as little as possible in front of others and try to get out of as much as possible.

[me :p]

Assalaamu alaikum

The best advice I have for you is:

1) Make lots of dua that they will come to the straight path... This always works...just trust in Allah.

2) The best dawah is not telling people what they should and shouldnt be doing...noone like criticism.. The best dawah is showing islam through your actions. Be the best person ilamically you can be.
Give your family compliments and encourage them..like if you have a sister and she is wearing slightly more modest clothing, tell her she looks good today, you dont have to say why!

Hope this helps

Wa salam

Me :p

[imama]

AsslamOAlaykum

but isnt it like if ur brotehrs doing something wrong its ur fard to tell them they r doin something wrong??

[neelu]

Don't repeat warnings to them about what is haraam. Your duty is to only tell them once (or up to three times if you have to) and beyond that what they decide to do is up to them. If you have good practising Muslim friends, then talk to them cos' it helps to talk to like minded people and invite them to your house. Feel free to talk to your siblings about other things going on in your lives, especially common interests whether it's sports, food, going to friends/family events, school/college. They wont be receptive to your views on Islam if you come across as being the person who only ever pushes religion on them. If they do wrong things then mention it to them whenever it's an appropriate time (preferably cite a quranic or hadith reference to the matter cos' generally sincere Muslims even who aren't practising, they'll still have some respect for Quran and Sunnah) but don't be pushy and don't go on and on about it.

[FollowerOfMuhammad]

Practice what you preach and try to find out why they dont listen to U, maybe there is still something which makes them think u r not really that relegious etc.

[000]

I dont only talk to them about islamic things but we discus all stuff. I am an open minded person but since I started practising I like to do things around religion eg arange going out around the prayer times thatI dont think is unreasonable at all but they dont seem to care. sometimes they see me praying and they just sit there through the time and are annoyed if someone tells them to go and pray.

[Destination]

who knows, maybe tomorrow theyr better muslims than your today, be nice to them, dont get annoyed if they dont like to listen to your preaching, thats because theyr preoccupied by what they are into now, and dont want to be disturbed, also this is not your job to guide them, Allah guides whom He wants, do your job, keep inviting them to the good.

[THE PATH 2]

hidayah...guidance is in allahs hands..and he guides whom he wills:)

though the duty of dawah is upon all of us with hikmah and softness..

as we have seen throughout history..even prophets could not "convince" their sons,wives,uncle fathers etc to accept imaan

when we give dawah and it is not accepted we must humble ourselves infront for our inability to convey the truth ..even the prophet s.a.w. did

and not be arrogant with those who dont accept... nor demean them

that is not the way of our nabi s.a.w.

dawah is our duty and guidance is from allah

a great dawah "sticky"

as musa was commanded to give dawah to the pharoah
a prophet to a self professed god

WITH SOFTNESS:)