Mustafa Khattab – Dawa to Muslims 1& 2
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Some people think when we speak about Dawah
that we all mean making Dawah to non
Muslims.
The word Dawah is a very common term
in Arabic, and linguistically,
it means to call.
It's a general term.
So it means to make dua to Muslims
and dua to non Muslims as well.
There are some people who are Muslims just
by name. Their name is Mohammed al Hassan.
But this behavior is not Islamic.
Some people are born Muslim
and it says this person has moved in
their
driver's license
back home or in their ID
but they're not practicing Islam.
So we need to make dawah to them,
to give them the sayha advice,
to tell them about what is haram and
what is haram.
But before we speak about the techniques and
the
knowledge and wisdom.
So these are requirements for someone who makes
dawah to Muslims.
Also, in Surah Tursu, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
I call for the way of my Lord
as and as those who follow me
with Basir.
Both.
You have to be kind and nice when
you give naseihah to people.
Because most of us, we are human beings.
We don't like to be corrected.
This is a universal
characteristic
of humans.
We don't like to be corrected.
So you don't have to be nice
and kind and wise when you speak to
people, otherwise
they're not going to listen to
you.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he sent
Musa and Hawoon to the pharaoh, the arrogant,
he said, I'm your lord, the most high.
And he was an arrogant and oppressor person,
but still Allah
told Musa and Harun to go and bid
to him and say a nice word,
a goodly word, a kind word.
Otherwise, he will not listen to them.
So this is number 1. Number 2,
Don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. He forgives all sins. He
is the most forgiving, most merciful.
The prophet salawahu alaihi wa sallam says in
an authentic hadith in submitting
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says so it's
a quitsi hadith.
O son of Adam, if your sins fill
the distance between the heavens and the earth
and you come back to me asking for
forgiveness,
I will forgive you.
So how come that Allah Subhanahu Waala says
I will forgive people
and you tell your brother or your sister
who's not practicing that Allah would never forgive
you?
Why do you close the gates of mercy
of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala?
Don't tell the people that you will go
to the head fire, cursed class.
Sometimes
this is number 3.
Sometimes when we give nasiha to a Muslim
who's not practicing,
we will on talking about the hellfire.
We don't mention paradise where the rewards were
salah. Someone is not praying, for example,
We keep talking about the hilfar the hilfar,
the punishing, the choking, the crying,
the barbecue, and the hilfar.
But we never mention the jazah or the
reward for those who pray.
So you have to remind them of the
jazah or the reward agenda to motivate the
bond.
Some guys,
when they make down to the people, they
keep talking about the head fire
and
they describe it so thoroughly and so professionally,
they make you feel the reward and raise
this.
No. You have to remind the people of
being reward as well for doing good deeds
or avoiding something ill.
You have to show both,
sides of the picture. You don't dwell on
the hellfire.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala waif al Hadith al
Qudsi wa'hmati
sabhat gabbi. Allah says in Abu al Hadith
that my forgiveness, my mercy
comes before my anger and my punishment.
So if number
4,
So when you see a brother
not praying, for example, he prays a couple
of prayers but he gets lazy, he doesn't
pray the rest of the prayers, You go
and talk to everyone
except for the brother. You look at him,
they'll say how much you make backbites backbites
all the time.
You talk to the brother and give him,
they'll say how to correct
So Isa says,
what do you do if you see your
brother asleep
and his lie is uncovered
while he's asleep? What do you do?
You uncover him all the way to the
Milibah.
You exaggerate,
you exaggerate,
you add more drama
to the sin. You add more drama to
the mistake of the brother.
Mister so and so, did so and so,
something wrong, the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
wouldn't say why mister
Ibrahim or mister Ismail did so and so.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam would say,
why do some people say this or do
this?
Allah, the prophet, is gonna speak in very
general terms so he doesn't humiliate
the brother or the sister.
And in the same time, he's making Naseeha,
and he is educating
the Muslim community.
So this is number 4. Number 5,
So you don't insult
or make dua against the people who are
not practicing.
You make dua for guidance for them, but
you don't pray against them and you don't
insult them or cuss at them.
A man, a drunkard, was brought to the
prophet
so some people started to cuss at him
and insult him.
So So the prophet asked him and said
don't say this.
Make God for him. Don't insult him.
Don't insult him. Don't assault him. Don't assist
the shaitan against your brother.
Because technically,
if this brother who's not practicing or he
does something wrong,
You have to give them a sayah. You
have to be good to them. And make
dua that Allah
will give them Hiday and will give them
guidance and forgive them.
So when we make nasiha to people, we
shouldn't look down
upon them.
You should be kind and you should be
respectful.
If someone doesn't have a beard, it doesn't
mean you offend them or you show disrespect
to them. If a sister doesn't wear the
hijab, you shouldn't disrespect them or offend them.
You should give them nasiha in a nice
way.
Otherwise, they will not listen to you. And
what matters for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
how your life ends
in obedience or disobedience.
And also,
what matters for you, we don't hate someone
who is not practicing.
We don't hate we hate
the un Islamic
behavior
they do. We don't hate them as brothers
and sisters. We just hate their evil deeds.
Islam.
He is saying this scholar, he is saying
that a sin
that will humble you before Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and bring you back to Islam
is better in the sight of Allah than
a good deed that will make you arrogant.
Because some people go arrogant because of their
good deeds. Some people are humbled by sins
and I'm not saying that you should sin.
I'm saying that sometimes
a sin will bring you back to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because you feel regretful
and remorseful.
In conclusion,
I used some of these texts with some
brothers in the US and here.
Some people used to smoke and they never
pray Fajd on time. And when I made
Naseeh after them, they prayed on time and
they started coming to the Russians for Fajd
and they went smoking.
So the first one, if you need them,
give them salah with greetings of peace.
Number 2, if they invite you, you have
to accept the invitation,
if you can.
Number 3,
if they ask for your advice, you have
to give them sincere advice.
Yes. Number 4,
if he or she sneezes and they say
Alhamdulillah, you have to say Alhamdulillah to
And don't get me wrong. The last part
of the hadith says, if he or she
dies, you should follow him or her. It
doesn't mean you should die right after them.
It means you should follow their funeral.
So I'm just making sure you got this
right.
Before you advise other people so no one
will listen to you if you're not following
what you teach other people.
And I always wonder,
because I have seen it several times. A
father
The first thing that we
learn from the Surah Al Qasasalah is to
choose the right time to give advice
So imagine if you raise some money
off in the middle of the night just
to give you the say how to pray
properly.
They will say, thanks for coming. Shut the
door. Turn on the lights.
I don't want to hear nothing about prayers.
To prepare them for the shot, for the
advice.
So you have for example,
Yani, if a brother,
is not precise to go on with Tajweed,
but he or she has a very good
voice.
So in this story,
the prophet
would
advise people in in pride. He wouldn't,
as brother Nader Najm says, he wouldn't tar
and feather them.
Because nobody else heard about the mistake except
for himself, so he would narrate this hadith
after the death of the prophet
And this is the only way we knew
about the mistake and how the prophet
corrected the person.
When he answered to this time, he went
out to the prophet, saw a woman in
a camp. So one day, he was walking
by himself. So he saw a group of
beautiful
ladies. So he went to his tent. He
put on his nicest clothes, and he went
to them. He started to chitchat with them.
I said,
these ladies I have a very violent
rebellious camel and these ladies are making a
rope for me so I will tie my
camel so it doesn't run away.
And he said, I knew
utterly,
completely, entirely,
100%
that the promised officer knew that I was
a liar.
So the promised officer is gonna say if
they can be left.
A few days later, he said, I was
walking in the street.
Then
and he prayed to our Arsunan
and he sat in front of me. When
I saw the prophet waiting
for me and I knew what he was
going to say, so I started to recite
the Longi Surah in the book. So the
prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam came closer to me while I
was standing in the prayer and said, I'm
waiting for you.
Pray as long as you would. I'll be
waiting for you all day long.
So
the last advice from the prophet,
you have to be nice and kind and
good and courteous
to the people when you gave the Muslim.
You shouldn't offend them.
In this hadith, a bit of it, someone
who just accepted Islam,
It is not for your nation.
So the person according to the other nation
by Yag Ahmed was moved
by the kindness
and the generosity
of the prophet, salaam alayhi, and he said,
oh, Allah,