Urgency of the Da’wah
6-11-2007
Allah (swt) says: “Say, This is my way: I call to Allah
with sure knowledge, I and whosoever follows me. and Glorified and Exalted is
Allah. And I am not of the Mushrikeen” [Yusuf:108]
Carrying the Da’wah is the task of Prophets. It is of the best and most
honourable deeds. Allah (SWT) says: “Who is better in speech than the one who
calls (men) to Allah, works righteousness, and says I am one the Muslims ?”
[Fussilat:33]
For the believers who possess the Islamic Aqeeda, the current world we are
living in should agitate them to carry the guidance that they posses so that it
becomes established and removes the evils that are drowning the world. This will
lead to a blazing passion and urgency for the Da’wah.
Our lowly situation will not be reversed without our actions, it is the actions
of the Da’wah that lead to change and open the path to revival.
When our mothers and sisters cry out in Iraq or Palestine from the pain
inflicted upon them by the Kuffar, when a fighter cries out in Chechnia and
Afghanistan due to being bombarded, when the child in Darfur has tears of pain
and hunger streaming down his face. It us that must respond to this call because
today there is no Khalifah like al-Mu’tasim to rescue the women of the Ummah,
there is no Umar bin al Khattab to send food for the hungry, there is no
Salahudeen to protect the Islamic lands. Rather today it is us who are the
guardians of this Ummah and who are responsible to bring back the protection,
honour and might to this Ummah by re-establishing the Khilafah, the shade of
Allah (swt) on the earth.
Allah (swt) entrusted us to be the witnesses over
humanity, He (swt) says: “We have made you the best nation to be witnesses over
mankind. And the Messenger as a witness over you.” [Al-Baqarah:143]
Indeed it is a great responsibility, the entire world and its problems rests
upon our shoulders. But remember together with responsibility comes reward and
with reward comes Jannah.
Hasan al Basri narrated that Allah’s Messenger (saw) said: “He whom death
overtakes while he is engaged in acquiring knowledge with a view to reviving
Islam with the help of it, there will be one degree between him and the Prophets
in Paradise.” [Al-Tirmidhi]
Anas narrated that our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw) said: “There is some
people in my Ummah that they are rewarded like the reward of the beginners of
this Ummah; this is because they are forbidding what is wrong” [Musnad Ahmad]
Let us be these people by enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.
The Da’wah should never become a tiny flickering flame in our hearts so that we
become slow in carrying it. The burning urgency of the situation of the Ummah
generates the roaring fire in the heart of the believer, this should never
dissipate turning us into passive beings hesitant in the actions of the Da’wah
rather than being the inspirational leaders of it.
This disease is one implanted by the Shaytan, it is his call to transform the
energetic into the lazy, the active into the passive and the Da’wah carrier into
the lifeless drone. Indeed laziness, isolation, despair and defeatism are among
the calls of Shaytan and he is trying relentlessly to lure the Da’wah carriers
away from the Deen and the Da’wah. Allah (swt) mentioned that the Shaytan, Iblis
said: “I will make the wrong fair seeming to the believers”.
Therefore we must banish the Shaytan and all his whispering from our hearts and
minds. Allah (swt) says:
“Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind, the King
of Mankind, the God of mankind, from the evil of the sneaking whisperer who
whispers into the hearts of mankind.” [An-Naas: 1-5]
The pace of the Da’wah must be faster than our heart beats as it is more
important than our interests and our blood, it is something that should awaken
the sleeping and make the walking run.
The Prophet (saw) was most truthful when he (saw) said: “The grinding wheel of
Islam is turning. So, turn with it wherever it turns.” [Tabarani]
Abu Ismael