Hayaa
09-05-05, 07:32 AM
بسمالله الرحمن الرحيم<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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The Successful Da'iy<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> By Ali Salaah</o:p>
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Alhamdulillah wasalaatu wasalaamu 'ala rasulih, Muhammad, alaihi salatu wasalaam. Allahummagh fir-lee warr hamnee wah-dini warr zuq-ni
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How many of us have sat at dawah tables in the colleges and went a day without talking to a single person? How many of us have tried to tell someone about Islam but at the end the person walks away without a desire to become Muslim? The unfortunate answer to this is that many have and just about everyone who has done dawah has fell into this and many other downfalls. We can look into our approaches and see what the downfalls of these approaches are and look into how we can fix these downfalls or do something differently to be a more successful da'iy. This is the purpose of me writing today and I would like to offer some quick and easy tips that if followed will make you, inshaallah, a successful da'iy. My recommendation is that you save or print this and review over it many times so that these tips are fresh on your mind and tongue when engaged in daily activities and talks those who are Muslim. The biggest mistake of all is that someone could have knowledge but at the moment of talking to someone they have no direction in how the give the dawah.
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Tip 1: Turn every possible moment into a dawah opportunity<o:p></o:p>
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The first step of giving dawah is to have the opportunity to make dawah. To be a successful da'iy we must be always involved in dawah and turn our daily lives into dawah. For example, someone at work reads an article on food and says "did you know scientists say not eating until your full is healthier." You can respond here in their conversation with something from the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), such as, "Yea, the final prophet, Muhammad (saw), advised us that the worst container to fill is our stomaches, its amazing that a lot of things science discovers just shows the wisdom behind things we already have in Islam." You can choose what to say and what is best from you're own wisdom, but the main point is to take every opportunity to point out something in Islam that will reach the heart of the potential Muslim, and every man, woman, and child is a potential revert to become a Muslim. There are a couple main things you accomplish with the above example. One, you point out something which exemplifies the greatness of Islam as a perfect way of life. Two you connect an action or some knowledge the person likes or does to something in Islam which ultimately brings that person closer to Islam himself, making a reversion to Islam easier for you and in that persons mind. Three by connecting something they already think as good or amazing to Islam you have made Islam good and amazing to them and helped to make them even more interested in Islam. And finally this could lead to the person actually responding with "could you tell me more about Islam, or this Muhammad person?" which would be the ultimate opportunity for dawah and with the following tips you will be completely prepared for that opportunity, inshaallah.
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Tip 2: Find out the persons interests/problems with Islam at the beginning of a talk.<o:p></o:p>
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A lot of people make the mistake, when doing dawah, of not knowing what the person is interested or not knowing how much the person already knows about Islam. When talking to someone who you may not already know well what interests them or their knowledge of Islam the very first thing after breaking ice on a conversation should be finding out what they know about Islam. The best way to do this is to usually ask directly by saying some things such as, "Are you Muslim?" when they respond "no" ask "Why not?" From here they may say something such as "I am not Muslim because I don't know who Muhammad is." When you realize what their excuse or reason for not being Muslim is you can tailor your discussion to answer what needs answered for the message of Islam to reach their heart, inshaallah. You could also ask them right after your greeting "What do you know about Islam?" There are many ways to do this and you can always use whatever works best for you, but the main point to take from this is to know your potential revert from the start of the conversation. If they are a person who loves a certain thing maybe Islam will reach their heart through that interest of theres, inshaallah.
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Tip 3: Always have focus in your discussion<o:p></o:p>
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So now you have started a conversation with someone, and you know what exactly their personal barrier between them and Islam is, so now what? Now comes the talking and explaining of Islam to them. The most common problem at this point is focus, in two ways. First someone may jump from point to point about Islam with no focus and not make a conclusion to the person about what they are talking about, and second they could know what they want to talk about but get stuck explaining one point of theirs for as long as hours on end!
<o:p> </o:p>
So what is it then we should focus on? This ties in to the second tip above, find out what their barrier is and focus in on that. While explaining any side topics of Islam never stay on them to long, you always want to bring your discussion towards explaining tawhid and convincing them of the truth of Allah's Oneness and the Prophet Muhammad's (saw) prophethood. So if 'Women in Islam' is a huge topic to the person you are talking to and even maybe they are a feminist and stronge in this you will want to take a minute or two to explain key points on that but it is very important to then tie that into the essential beliefs of Islam. Ways you could do this is ending a short explanation with "and we do this because it is commanded by Allah, and our only true purpose in life is to follow His commands to earn His pleasure." or somehow tieing it into why they need Islam and to believe in Allah.
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Secondly when talking to someone it's a good rule of thumb to not stay on the same topic very long and to try your best to be conscious about this while talking. Two things can happen when you do this. Firstly the potential revert will get bored and tune you out. Secondly you will lose the whole effect of your talking to them if you do not make a point and draw it to a conclusion. The most important point is to fully explain everything in a timely manner and to always bring the focus on our essential beliefs in Allah, the prophets, etc never boring them during that process, may Allah help us all in this, ameen.
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Tip 4: Create a sense of Urgency to become Muslim<o:p></o:p>
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If you take anything from this article please take this tip. Creating a sense of urgency is so important because many people have thought about religion on and off their whole life. If you don't create a sense of urgency and point out why one must be a Muslim then after your conversation they may leave and never become Muslim. It is not being to harsh if you point out such things that people who die without Islam will be worthy of eternal Hellfire and tell them that the time anyone dies is unknown so don't hesitate from choosing Islam. Other important things to tell them is when you become Muslim all your sins are removed and in Islam if you do not know an aspect of Islam and sin out of valid ignorance (not being intentionally ignorant by never reading/learning) then it is not even counted as a sin, especially use this for the argument that they want to know how to pray and so forth before they become Muslim. You MUST create this sense of urgency and let them know that Allah will accept no religion except Islam (Quran 5:3) and that they could die minutes after you two stop talking or even during, and that if they agree with you that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad (saw) is His final Messenger than there is nothing holding them back from entering Islam except Shaytan himself (audhu billah) who wishes to bring as many of us and them (potential reverts) to Hellfire with him.
<o:p> </o:p>
Through experience I have seen a handfull of brothers (5 or less) walk the streets of a city and get over 20 shahadahs in a couple of hours. If there was no sense of urgency then on of those brothers could have as well talked with one person the whole time and left him with the person thinking there is nothing wrong with him staying a Christian till the day he dies. With a sense of urgency I have seen random people say shahadah in as little as 6 minutes and its not just once or twice but fairly often there have been people saying the shahadah in under 10 minutes, Allahu Akbar.
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Tip 5: Make the Kafir (disbeliever) uncomfortable with his kufr (disbelief)<o:p></o:p>
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One of the most important things is to make a kafir uncomfortable with his kufr. The more comfortable and firm they are in believing that Allah is not One the harder it is to call them to Allah's Oneness. I would not recommend deep biblical debates to anyone without sound knowledge of the bible because even with the truth if your knowledge lacks in one area a person with falsehood can still defeat you in a debate and you will in turn make him feel stronger in his disbelief (kufr) and can hurt not only his chances of becoming Muslim but make him stronger so that in the future he is less likely to want to become a Muslim. This does not mean, though, to insult a belief they hold dear to their heart. As stated before you want to start by bridging the gaps between them and Islam and then after that destroy the reasons why they want to be anything but a Muslim and then after that it is a matter of convincing them that there is no time like now to be a Muslim themselves. This can also tie in very closely with the creating a sense of urgency since after bridging the gaps and explaining how nothing but Islam can help them and reminding them that death is always very near, they will remember death and with that thought combined with them no longer thinking their religion is good enough to prepare them for death they will see Islam as their only salvation and become Muslim, inshaallah.
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Tip 6: Follow up<o:p></o:p>
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One of the greatest problems, and I would gather to say the greatest, after someone becomes Muslim is that noone tells them where they can go for help or education. Even the one who he says shahadah to often loses interest afterwards and thinks his job is done and somehow this new Muslim will be fine. The reality is that this revert has a life and in that life everything is the same from his days of kufr as they are now that he is a Muslim. With the same friends, family, role models, and even girlfriend or boyfriend they will soon distance themselves from Islam and the Shaytan will move in fast. Their whole life will be rejecting their Islam and they will soon leave Islam. I have seen met soemone who used to be Muslim, after they converted noone followed up and then after awhile that person never learned more and felt Islam had not doen anything new to his life and then started feeling he was a bad Muslim and then left Islam. Islam can only change someones life if he learns it and implements it, which is why after someone converts we must feed their knowledge of the pillars and how they can practice Islam in every aspect of daily life so they will see Islam change them into a better person and they themselves will become passionate about this deen.
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Solution? I have seen a lot of success in setting up a weekly dinner for Muslims and new Muslims. In your classes where you have many of the best Muslims in your community coming for Islamic Knowledge you should advertise that there will be a new Muslim dinner every week, such as Saturday at 6pm. Advise the brothers and sisters that come to bring food and not to overload the new Muslims with questions, to make them comfortable and feel they are apart of the community. At the dinner the new Muslims will get to meet people who have reverted in the past and good Muslims who can exchange phone numbers and become friends and mentors. This will help put positive Islamic influence in their lives to keep them firma ndf protect them from Shaytan. After the dinner have a class or period of time where you do a short halaqa on what they should know as new Muslims, a brief overview of Islam done by your Masjids imam or such and instruct them where they can go for questions and ofcourse they have their new friends. After the short class you can have lessons on how to make Salah and teach them, and after that pray Isha (or whatever prayer comes ) with them. It is essential that before everyone leaves from the dinner that all the new Muslims have one or two people who will be committed to tutoring them in their beginning of Islam. If you were doing a dinner or any other event that you follow Islam throughout the event with such things as seperation of men and women and so on. This will be the first impression of Islam for most of them and it is well known that it is easier to learn something right the first time from the beginning then to learn something wrong and later change it, especially if it is something that is a complete way of life such as Islam where every aspect is related and tied in with other aspects.
<o:p> </o:p>
With any event you want your new Muslims to make friends and feel welcomed into the community. Leave with one or two people that will be personal guides (not too many because then he will be overloaded with 20 peopel calling him each day to teach him Salah), and leave with a basic understanding of Islam that will help him to start living his life and progressing into Islam to become a better Muslim each day.
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Conclusion<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
These dawah tips are not a complete reference to learning how to give the best dawah but I am sure that if you read, learn, and practice these tips you will see an improvement in your dawah to where you yourself can get many more shahadahs. If you start today and live another 30 years getting one shahadah a day you can arrive on the Day of Judgment with 11,000 people being guided to Islam by you! Oh Allah make us amongst those in the highest level of your Jannah, al-Firdaus! Ameen. One of the most important aspects is consistency to do dawah regularly and to have a sincere intention that you are doing this for Allah and noone else, that means no bragging to other Muslims about how much dawah you do and so on, so that on the Day of Judgment you will get rewarded for all your 11,000 (inshaallah) shahadahs, not go on the Day and find your reward absent and your acts of shirk (a form of shirk for doing dawah for other than Allah ie. Fame, etc.) earning you a Hellfire whose fuel is men and stones.
<o:p> </o:p>
These tips guide you through the entire dawah process. Making everything a dawah opportunity will get you into the spot to do dawah on a regular basis (Tip 1). When you find out that maybe someone is not Muslim because they disagree with cutting off the hand of a theif (Tip 2), you can then start your discussion saying that these are the laws of Allah and they have more right to be followed then mad made laws of nations, then lead into why we need to follow Allah and the truth of the Quran being from Allah and focus your conversation to Tawhid, etc. (Tip 3). After explaining how Islam is superior and showing the absolute truth of the matter, of life, of the purpose of life you create the sense of urgency and let them know how important it is to be Muslim (Tip 4). Show them how any way of thinking or anything other than Islam is inferior and false and even if they don't become Muslim now if you destroy their false beliefs they will leave you no longer to be what they are now, and searching for the truth which means down the line, inshaallah, they will become Muslim (Tip 5). Remember that not every non Muslim is a Christian, and that all these tips work when you are being interactive in discussion with someone not lecturing them endlessly. Finally after they become Muslim set up a way that you and/or others will follow up with the new brother or sister to make them strong in Islam and one day they will be here doing dawah alongside you, inshaallah, like I am, myself once a kafir and went down the path of entering Islam.
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May Allah give this ummah strength and increase it through the effort of our brothers and sisters involved in Dawah, ameen.
<o:p> </o:p>
The Successful Da'iy<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> By Ali Salaah</o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
Alhamdulillah wasalaatu wasalaamu 'ala rasulih, Muhammad, alaihi salatu wasalaam. Allahummagh fir-lee warr hamnee wah-dini warr zuq-ni
<o:p> </o:p>
How many of us have sat at dawah tables in the colleges and went a day without talking to a single person? How many of us have tried to tell someone about Islam but at the end the person walks away without a desire to become Muslim? The unfortunate answer to this is that many have and just about everyone who has done dawah has fell into this and many other downfalls. We can look into our approaches and see what the downfalls of these approaches are and look into how we can fix these downfalls or do something differently to be a more successful da'iy. This is the purpose of me writing today and I would like to offer some quick and easy tips that if followed will make you, inshaallah, a successful da'iy. My recommendation is that you save or print this and review over it many times so that these tips are fresh on your mind and tongue when engaged in daily activities and talks those who are Muslim. The biggest mistake of all is that someone could have knowledge but at the moment of talking to someone they have no direction in how the give the dawah.
<o:p> </o:p>
Tip 1: Turn every possible moment into a dawah opportunity<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
The first step of giving dawah is to have the opportunity to make dawah. To be a successful da'iy we must be always involved in dawah and turn our daily lives into dawah. For example, someone at work reads an article on food and says "did you know scientists say not eating until your full is healthier." You can respond here in their conversation with something from the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), such as, "Yea, the final prophet, Muhammad (saw), advised us that the worst container to fill is our stomaches, its amazing that a lot of things science discovers just shows the wisdom behind things we already have in Islam." You can choose what to say and what is best from you're own wisdom, but the main point is to take every opportunity to point out something in Islam that will reach the heart of the potential Muslim, and every man, woman, and child is a potential revert to become a Muslim. There are a couple main things you accomplish with the above example. One, you point out something which exemplifies the greatness of Islam as a perfect way of life. Two you connect an action or some knowledge the person likes or does to something in Islam which ultimately brings that person closer to Islam himself, making a reversion to Islam easier for you and in that persons mind. Three by connecting something they already think as good or amazing to Islam you have made Islam good and amazing to them and helped to make them even more interested in Islam. And finally this could lead to the person actually responding with "could you tell me more about Islam, or this Muhammad person?" which would be the ultimate opportunity for dawah and with the following tips you will be completely prepared for that opportunity, inshaallah.
<o:p> </o:p>
Tip 2: Find out the persons interests/problems with Islam at the beginning of a talk.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
A lot of people make the mistake, when doing dawah, of not knowing what the person is interested or not knowing how much the person already knows about Islam. When talking to someone who you may not already know well what interests them or their knowledge of Islam the very first thing after breaking ice on a conversation should be finding out what they know about Islam. The best way to do this is to usually ask directly by saying some things such as, "Are you Muslim?" when they respond "no" ask "Why not?" From here they may say something such as "I am not Muslim because I don't know who Muhammad is." When you realize what their excuse or reason for not being Muslim is you can tailor your discussion to answer what needs answered for the message of Islam to reach their heart, inshaallah. You could also ask them right after your greeting "What do you know about Islam?" There are many ways to do this and you can always use whatever works best for you, but the main point to take from this is to know your potential revert from the start of the conversation. If they are a person who loves a certain thing maybe Islam will reach their heart through that interest of theres, inshaallah.
<o:p> </o:p>
Tip 3: Always have focus in your discussion<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
So now you have started a conversation with someone, and you know what exactly their personal barrier between them and Islam is, so now what? Now comes the talking and explaining of Islam to them. The most common problem at this point is focus, in two ways. First someone may jump from point to point about Islam with no focus and not make a conclusion to the person about what they are talking about, and second they could know what they want to talk about but get stuck explaining one point of theirs for as long as hours on end!
<o:p> </o:p>
So what is it then we should focus on? This ties in to the second tip above, find out what their barrier is and focus in on that. While explaining any side topics of Islam never stay on them to long, you always want to bring your discussion towards explaining tawhid and convincing them of the truth of Allah's Oneness and the Prophet Muhammad's (saw) prophethood. So if 'Women in Islam' is a huge topic to the person you are talking to and even maybe they are a feminist and stronge in this you will want to take a minute or two to explain key points on that but it is very important to then tie that into the essential beliefs of Islam. Ways you could do this is ending a short explanation with "and we do this because it is commanded by Allah, and our only true purpose in life is to follow His commands to earn His pleasure." or somehow tieing it into why they need Islam and to believe in Allah.
<o:p> </o:p>
Secondly when talking to someone it's a good rule of thumb to not stay on the same topic very long and to try your best to be conscious about this while talking. Two things can happen when you do this. Firstly the potential revert will get bored and tune you out. Secondly you will lose the whole effect of your talking to them if you do not make a point and draw it to a conclusion. The most important point is to fully explain everything in a timely manner and to always bring the focus on our essential beliefs in Allah, the prophets, etc never boring them during that process, may Allah help us all in this, ameen.
<o:p> </o:p>
Tip 4: Create a sense of Urgency to become Muslim<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
If you take anything from this article please take this tip. Creating a sense of urgency is so important because many people have thought about religion on and off their whole life. If you don't create a sense of urgency and point out why one must be a Muslim then after your conversation they may leave and never become Muslim. It is not being to harsh if you point out such things that people who die without Islam will be worthy of eternal Hellfire and tell them that the time anyone dies is unknown so don't hesitate from choosing Islam. Other important things to tell them is when you become Muslim all your sins are removed and in Islam if you do not know an aspect of Islam and sin out of valid ignorance (not being intentionally ignorant by never reading/learning) then it is not even counted as a sin, especially use this for the argument that they want to know how to pray and so forth before they become Muslim. You MUST create this sense of urgency and let them know that Allah will accept no religion except Islam (Quran 5:3) and that they could die minutes after you two stop talking or even during, and that if they agree with you that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad (saw) is His final Messenger than there is nothing holding them back from entering Islam except Shaytan himself (audhu billah) who wishes to bring as many of us and them (potential reverts) to Hellfire with him.
<o:p> </o:p>
Through experience I have seen a handfull of brothers (5 or less) walk the streets of a city and get over 20 shahadahs in a couple of hours. If there was no sense of urgency then on of those brothers could have as well talked with one person the whole time and left him with the person thinking there is nothing wrong with him staying a Christian till the day he dies. With a sense of urgency I have seen random people say shahadah in as little as 6 minutes and its not just once or twice but fairly often there have been people saying the shahadah in under 10 minutes, Allahu Akbar.
<o:p> </o:p>
Tip 5: Make the Kafir (disbeliever) uncomfortable with his kufr (disbelief)<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
One of the most important things is to make a kafir uncomfortable with his kufr. The more comfortable and firm they are in believing that Allah is not One the harder it is to call them to Allah's Oneness. I would not recommend deep biblical debates to anyone without sound knowledge of the bible because even with the truth if your knowledge lacks in one area a person with falsehood can still defeat you in a debate and you will in turn make him feel stronger in his disbelief (kufr) and can hurt not only his chances of becoming Muslim but make him stronger so that in the future he is less likely to want to become a Muslim. This does not mean, though, to insult a belief they hold dear to their heart. As stated before you want to start by bridging the gaps between them and Islam and then after that destroy the reasons why they want to be anything but a Muslim and then after that it is a matter of convincing them that there is no time like now to be a Muslim themselves. This can also tie in very closely with the creating a sense of urgency since after bridging the gaps and explaining how nothing but Islam can help them and reminding them that death is always very near, they will remember death and with that thought combined with them no longer thinking their religion is good enough to prepare them for death they will see Islam as their only salvation and become Muslim, inshaallah.
<o:p> </o:p>
Tip 6: Follow up<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
One of the greatest problems, and I would gather to say the greatest, after someone becomes Muslim is that noone tells them where they can go for help or education. Even the one who he says shahadah to often loses interest afterwards and thinks his job is done and somehow this new Muslim will be fine. The reality is that this revert has a life and in that life everything is the same from his days of kufr as they are now that he is a Muslim. With the same friends, family, role models, and even girlfriend or boyfriend they will soon distance themselves from Islam and the Shaytan will move in fast. Their whole life will be rejecting their Islam and they will soon leave Islam. I have seen met soemone who used to be Muslim, after they converted noone followed up and then after awhile that person never learned more and felt Islam had not doen anything new to his life and then started feeling he was a bad Muslim and then left Islam. Islam can only change someones life if he learns it and implements it, which is why after someone converts we must feed their knowledge of the pillars and how they can practice Islam in every aspect of daily life so they will see Islam change them into a better person and they themselves will become passionate about this deen.
<o:p> </o:p>
Solution? I have seen a lot of success in setting up a weekly dinner for Muslims and new Muslims. In your classes where you have many of the best Muslims in your community coming for Islamic Knowledge you should advertise that there will be a new Muslim dinner every week, such as Saturday at 6pm. Advise the brothers and sisters that come to bring food and not to overload the new Muslims with questions, to make them comfortable and feel they are apart of the community. At the dinner the new Muslims will get to meet people who have reverted in the past and good Muslims who can exchange phone numbers and become friends and mentors. This will help put positive Islamic influence in their lives to keep them firma ndf protect them from Shaytan. After the dinner have a class or period of time where you do a short halaqa on what they should know as new Muslims, a brief overview of Islam done by your Masjids imam or such and instruct them where they can go for questions and ofcourse they have their new friends. After the short class you can have lessons on how to make Salah and teach them, and after that pray Isha (or whatever prayer comes ) with them. It is essential that before everyone leaves from the dinner that all the new Muslims have one or two people who will be committed to tutoring them in their beginning of Islam. If you were doing a dinner or any other event that you follow Islam throughout the event with such things as seperation of men and women and so on. This will be the first impression of Islam for most of them and it is well known that it is easier to learn something right the first time from the beginning then to learn something wrong and later change it, especially if it is something that is a complete way of life such as Islam where every aspect is related and tied in with other aspects.
<o:p> </o:p>
With any event you want your new Muslims to make friends and feel welcomed into the community. Leave with one or two people that will be personal guides (not too many because then he will be overloaded with 20 peopel calling him each day to teach him Salah), and leave with a basic understanding of Islam that will help him to start living his life and progressing into Islam to become a better Muslim each day.
<o:p> </o:p>
Conclusion<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
These dawah tips are not a complete reference to learning how to give the best dawah but I am sure that if you read, learn, and practice these tips you will see an improvement in your dawah to where you yourself can get many more shahadahs. If you start today and live another 30 years getting one shahadah a day you can arrive on the Day of Judgment with 11,000 people being guided to Islam by you! Oh Allah make us amongst those in the highest level of your Jannah, al-Firdaus! Ameen. One of the most important aspects is consistency to do dawah regularly and to have a sincere intention that you are doing this for Allah and noone else, that means no bragging to other Muslims about how much dawah you do and so on, so that on the Day of Judgment you will get rewarded for all your 11,000 (inshaallah) shahadahs, not go on the Day and find your reward absent and your acts of shirk (a form of shirk for doing dawah for other than Allah ie. Fame, etc.) earning you a Hellfire whose fuel is men and stones.
<o:p> </o:p>
These tips guide you through the entire dawah process. Making everything a dawah opportunity will get you into the spot to do dawah on a regular basis (Tip 1). When you find out that maybe someone is not Muslim because they disagree with cutting off the hand of a theif (Tip 2), you can then start your discussion saying that these are the laws of Allah and they have more right to be followed then mad made laws of nations, then lead into why we need to follow Allah and the truth of the Quran being from Allah and focus your conversation to Tawhid, etc. (Tip 3). After explaining how Islam is superior and showing the absolute truth of the matter, of life, of the purpose of life you create the sense of urgency and let them know how important it is to be Muslim (Tip 4). Show them how any way of thinking or anything other than Islam is inferior and false and even if they don't become Muslim now if you destroy their false beliefs they will leave you no longer to be what they are now, and searching for the truth which means down the line, inshaallah, they will become Muslim (Tip 5). Remember that not every non Muslim is a Christian, and that all these tips work when you are being interactive in discussion with someone not lecturing them endlessly. Finally after they become Muslim set up a way that you and/or others will follow up with the new brother or sister to make them strong in Islam and one day they will be here doing dawah alongside you, inshaallah, like I am, myself once a kafir and went down the path of entering Islam.
<o:p> </o:p>
May Allah give this ummah strength and increase it through the effort of our brothers and sisters involved in Dawah, ameen.