Passive Living Mindset – Giving Dawah

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My dear brothers and sisters, we live in a unique situation unlike

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the generations that have gone before us.

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For us,

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we live

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in a majority non Muslim country.

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For us, we came here by our own choice, no one forced us to come here.

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And for us, we have no restrictions.

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We live among non Muslims, and yet no one is restricting us. No one is preventing us from seeing what we want.

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From conveying this message from giving Dawa

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of this Deen of Islam as it was revealed without having to change it

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without

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having to hide some aspects of this Deen.

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Others in other parts of the world, they're restricted even when living

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among Muslims.

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And so my dear brothers and sisters, this is why the scholars of Islam they say

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that one of the conditions

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of it being permissible to live among non Muslims is

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that you're giving Dawa.

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That you're conveying the message of Islam. And so we are sinful if we are not.

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If we are not fulfilling this obligation.

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However, most of us, we live passive lives.

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We live passive lives, not doing even the least that we're capable of.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Billy who I knew what I

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conveyed for me.

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Even if it be one, I have one verse.

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And so this is a command. What we learned from this hadith is firstly, it is a command from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the commands of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they indicate that it is obligatory.

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Anything that Allah or his messenger commanded

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is an obligation.

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And so it is an obligation on each and every single Muslim,

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to teach to convey the message of Islam.

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But this Hadith also teaches us

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that everyone is different.

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And some people are more knowledgeable than others.

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And so just because you know, little,

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just because your knowledge of Islam is literal, it does not excuse you.

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From this obligation of giving Dawa. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Teach convey even if it be one eye.

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And which Muslim can say he does not know

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when I have the Quran, or one concept of Islam that you can pass on to others.