Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah – Outreach #13

Now, the theme of, Yani I dawah is

what I'm going to continue throughout this week

and then we'll

move on to something different inshallah once, Yani

this week is over.

August is our outreach month and I'm trying

to encourage you all to perform Dawah and

to bring people to Masajid and introduce people

to Masajid who aren't usually comfortable coming to

them. There's a lot of ejal in that.

There's it's something that we should all be

doing at all times. It's not just during

the month of August, but,

it's kind of what the theme of this

month is and I'm going to share with

you this Hadith that I think is,

has a has a niche to it that

you'll find Insha'Allah interesting. And,

actually at this point the, pointing out who

narrating it, who's narrating this Hadith is important.

Even though you've heard this name a 1000000

times because he he's probably the he's not

probably, he is the

highest

narrator of Hadith amongst all of the sahab

of the prophet alaihis salatu wa

sallam.

His name

was Abid Shams and the prophet alaihis salam

changed that to Abdul Rahman and his name

is Abdul Rahman ibn Sakhr Adosi.

His name is Abdul Rahman ibn Sakhr Adosi.

Adosi meaning from the tribe of Dose. And

there's an importance for that in this hadith.

So this is what Abdul Rahman ibn Sakhr

Adosi is telling us.

He

said,

Tufayl and his friends and his companions came

to visit the prophet alaihi wa sallam in

his way. Who is the Tufayl? Tufayl ibn

Anur Adosi, also from those.

From this tribe,

for a long time, only 2 people were

Muslim. The Tufayl,

who accepted Islam in the 10th year of

Hajj the 10th year of his prophecy, the

year during the Hajj of the Prophet alaihis

salam. So,

before Hijra and Abu Hurayrah who accepted it

in the 6th or 7th year of Hijra.

So between them there was at least maybe

around 10 years between Tufayrah is way before

Abu Hurayrah. He's not as known as well,

but he's way before Abu Hurayra. The prophet

back then sent him back to those and

told him go and perform dawah. And he

performed dawah and Aburayra accepted his time and

came. That's how this worked, but not a

lot of people did aside from that. So

Tufail came to the prophet

after years of performing dawah. In

Nadosan.

Indeed, those is a is a wicked tribe.

They have refused

Islam and Iman, and they have continued their

ways of kufr, and we have lost hope

in them ever accepting this deen, and they

have worked against us in every way. So

You Rasulullah

make dua against them.

And the wording is in the

People who are listening to Tufail say this

to the prophet alaihi wa sallam, start whispering,

talakat dose. Those is going to be destroyed

because the prophet alaihi wa sallam put his

hands up as Tufail was speaking.

So as Tufail is speaking and saying,

the prophet alaihi wa sallam's hand went up

and the people sitting there said,

Those is going to be destroyed.

Oh Allah, guide the tribe of those and

bring them to me. And he did

All of those came and everything Islam.

And the point here of the hadith, you

know, just of course the barakah, the dua

of the Prophet

but learning from him how he looked at

things and how he when people went at

a moment where Tufayr had spent maybe a

a decade of time trying to form a

dawah or more than a decade and almost

achieving nothing. Aside from Abu Huraira and a

couple of people came with him, and so

I this is a this is a wicked

tribe, a tribe of evil, a tribe that

will not listen. The prophet alaihi sallahu alaihi

sallahu alaihi sallahu alaihi sallahu alaihi sallahu alaihi

sallahu alaihi sallam, he he continued to have

the hope of of acceptance.

He still hoped. He still saw the potential

that maybe they accept. So, it's not about

you and what you feel towards someone and

how wicked they are and how far away

from Allah they are when you called them.

It has nothing to do with you. It

has nothing to do with your perception of

them. Has nothing to do with your opinion

of them. You could sit there and tell

me all day how horrible this person is,

has nothing to do with this is not

about you or your opinion or your perception

of them. This has this is between them

and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and as long

as they're alive, there is hope that Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will guide them. There is

still the hope

and the desire that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

will guide their hearts and turn things around

for them regardless of what they've done before

and that should never ever be lost and

you should never lose hope in someone doing

that no matter what they've done, how far

away they are. It's easy to feel the

way Tufay. Tufay by the way said this

after 14 years of dawah. This hadith happened

6 months before the prophet alaihis salam passed

away. Yeah. So he 14 years of dawah.

Tufayr came and said, You Rasool Allah.

Those is is is a lost cause. So

the Prophet Alaihi Wasall made dua for them

and before he died they came to him

Alaihi Wasallam accepted Islam. But the concept is

what I'm trying to look for. There's always

hope and there's always and make dua.

One of the ways of performing dua, if

you can't if you absolutely have nothing else

you can do is make dua.

Like if you absolutely have nothing else you

can do for someone. Like if you like

If there is

a wall, there's a barrier between you and

this person, they will not listen to you.

This happens a lot with, parents and their

children.

Sometimes they won't listen

just because it's because you're talking not gonna

listen. Like, they'll listen if someone else talks

said it but not you. So there's absolutely

no way you can do dawah directly to

them.

Make dua for them.

Don't do the opposite. Don't do what Kufayl

and his people came and said.

Don't don't lose don't let your emotions get

the best of you and then say what

Kufayl said.

Make dua against them that Allah destroys them.

Don't do that. Always make dua for them.

You never know. The moment that Allah

will pluck that seed of evil out of

their hearts and put guidance instead of it.

And then they may do better than all

of us.

And they may be the reason that we

all make it to jannah. You don't know.

You don't know. We know nothing. We know

nothing. So keep that in your mind and

and and

that's a tool that you should not take

make little of which is making dua for

people that Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala guides them.