Mustafa Khattab – Dawa Training 1 A The Art of Dawa
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And inshallah every Monday, after I show up,
we'll be meeting for about 40, 45 minutes.
And we'll share with you some of the
techniques that I have learned
over time and how to
make dawah.
Why is dawg is very important? I'm gonna
give you the answer after we'll show you
this video. This is how North Americans, Americans
and Canadians
think about Muslims and the people around them.
Is it drink,
heard, or false? Coffee is a drink. Coffee
is black. It sounds like a law firm.
Yeah. Who is Tony Blair? I don't even
know. I can't. Alright. Any guess?
World that country runs.
Coffee in there is a drink. True or
false? Coffee is a drink. Coffee is what?
It sounds like a law firm. Yeah. Who
is Tony Blair? I don't even know. Okay.
Alright. Any guess? Any guess?
Scaling. Tony Blair is an actor. Michael Blair's
brother.
Which countries are in the axis of evil?
I know Germany's one of them. I'm not
sure what the balance is. Okay. California.
Yep.
New York. Jeremy's the number?
I got you. There's more wine. I think
all of them. There's stuff? That's
Florida.
Okay. I'm a little bit
mixed up with the Palestinians
and the Israelis. Mhmm. Okay. Which one is
stolen rice? The I guess the name of
the other one. The fellow with the turbine
thing and
I call it the diaper head. Really?
Yeah. I believe
Mississippi. Who was the 5th man in the
trunk?
Armstrong walked on the moon. I think it
was a Russian. I'm not sure. Well, I
gotta tell you. Some people don't believe that
happened. They believe that was, reincarnated
in Arizona somewhere. What is a wolf?
Don't have any idea. Well, a guess.
An animal. I have a totally intelligent guess.
Do I let you to guess? How many
kidneys does a person have? 1. What is
clutter image?
Well, they just made a film about it,
but that's definitely not what it is. It
probably
has something you what the movie was about,
but not necessarily related to the movie. Do
you know what I mean? How many world
wars have been made?
3. 3. Which state does KFC
come from?
Like a
chicken.
I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Do
do you know what KFC stands for?
Kentucky fried chicken fried. Star Wars is based
on a true story. True or false?
True. But what are Hiroshima
What is the main religion of Israel?
Muslim.
The language that speaks in Latin America is
Latin. True or false? The what? Believe me,
I don't know who answers this question, but
I'm thinking.
Okay.
So,
as you guys see, most people don't know
nothing about Islam.
And
there have been a lot of recent studies
that,
test people's knowledge of Islam and the Muslim
world,
and they say that Islamophobia
in the West is not caused
by the lack of knowledge in North America,
by no, but by the misinformation that people
get all the time about Islam. They know
a little bit about Islam,
but almost everything they know about Islam is
wrong. Why?
Because if you don't know something about something,
what do you do? Because you are busy
working 2, 3 short shifts and this is
a materialistic world and you have work all
the time. So you always listen to the
news whether it's radio
or the TV or you you need to
read the newspapers. Okay? So this is where
most people get their knowledge about Islam from.
And this is what they tell them in
the media about Islam and Muslims. We we
start with Aladdin movie, cartoon movie that came
out in 1992.
This is how they describe
our lot, like that, in the song
in the film.
So this is how to describe
I love in a cartoon movie for for
kids.
I come from a faraway place
where they cut off your ear if they
don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey,
it's home. Okay. Thank you.
Then of course, if you get your knowledge
from Fox News,
it's gonna be worse.
So what they do all the time, they
invite conservatives,
people who claim to be jihad experts,
and they don't know nothing about Islam, or
most of the time they invite
for who who call themselves former Muslims to
speak about Islam.
So for example, if you listen to, this
guy, we'll start with this guy.
So let me ask this again. So when
people say talk about modern
Islam, you're saying it doesn't exist. It doesn't
exist. But I tell you what what happens.
Muslims
have moralities,
responsibilities,
logics more than their god. The most criminal
terrorist Muslim
has morality, a minimum of humanity
more than his god.
Their god is a terrorist
and ignorant. Alright. Last question.
And
First of all Yeah. I just have to
give you this quote.
And, and get your thoughts and all there,
my glasses.
The fact that,
in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to
some man
as his absolute property, either as a child,
a wife, or a concubine,
must delay the final extinction of slavery until
the faith of Islam has ceased to be
a great power among men. Pretty
outrageous stuff. Yeah. You didn't say that though.
I didn't say that though. No. Winston Churchill
said that. Yeah. Winston Churchill, as a matter
of fact, in a book in the fifties,
also made a comparison like Orianna Falachy and
Anthony but also Winston Churchill. The comparison between
Mike Duff and doctor Ryan.
So this is what they call in of
course, what the first guy did, this guy
here,
said, this one of the propaganda techniques used
in the media is called name calling. Now
when you're kidding, you call Islam, you give
Islam a bad name or you call Muslims
a bad name. It's named, it's called name
calling.
And what this guy did, it's a testimonial.
What he did basically, there are about 16
or 17 propaganda techniques. He used what they
call testimonial.
If Gwenison Churchill said that Islam is a
bad religion,
and he said that the Quran is like
Mein Kampf, do you know what Mein Kampf
is? Yes.
Who? Yes. Hitler's book. And you know how
much people hate Hitler. So when
you say that the Quran is like Mein
Kampf, of course, this is also name calling,
but what he used is testimonial. When you
get someone famous
and you call them words about something like
Islam and you say, because they say it
is bad, it has to be bad because
this famous person said it. So it has
to be true.
And this guy is making what they call
in propaganda. It's generalization.
You said, for example, in my radio show
last week, which we appreciate, you said that
you believe
that the true practitioners of Islam, realism, are
the radicals, that the moderates aren't practicing
real Islam.
So actual Islam is a radical religion in
your view.
Yeah. It is. And, you know, it's kind
of like, most Christians,
don't read the Bible very much. I believe
most Muslims don't read the Koran very much.
You're calling it a Bible really?
Yeah. Well, that that's, that's why most Muslims
are not radical,
but when someone begins to really study the
Quran
and they begin to read the 109
verses that call for violence and war,
they become,
very, very different. They become radical.
They feel that, they need to convert people
by force. So you understand what they
Okay. This is called generalization.
He's saying basically, if you are not practicing
Islam,
you are a good guy. If you start
to practice Islam and read the Quran, and
you start to pray and come to the
mosque, you are a terrorist. This is his
definition of the word terrorist.
Today,
the brochure pamphlet got out,
and I, as I said before, this is
one of the biggest projects,
DAO projects in the history of,
Alberta.
And
I was told that some people started to
complain and they started calling their MPs, and
they were saying, oh, Muslims are sending us
this pamphlet. They are trying to force Sharia
on us.
Why? Because they listen to blame big and
Bill Riley and Fox News all the time.
So this is what they put in their
heads.
So it it is sad. It is sad.
Okay.
Today, inshallah will talk about 1 is Dawah,
the different types of Dawah, and who is
qualified to give the Dawah.
Of course,
over the past few years, the biggest helper
in the field of Dawah al Rashid has
been Nabi'al Eshman.
And of course,
we used to have some volunteers, but some
of them, they traveled, some of them ran
away, and so on and so forth. So
we have no options. Either to clone Habil
Hashim and make many copies of him, and
this is gonna cost a lot of money,
or
we can give some good brothers and sisters
like yourself and shame them on how to
do Dawah. I gave this course last year,
and we got several brothers and sisters who
were helping us with Dawah.
And I gotta say that my biggest two
helpers in the past year in Dawah were
Nabil Nasrud
and,
brother, I'm in our I'm in our way
the late in Buffalo. I used to help
me all the time. He used to take
me to places to make
And,
you know, also kind of honor his soul
and peace. And
in the in the winter, he used to,
of course, he used to drive around,
his cab driver and his son used to
do construction work.
So he used to take that one, material
from my office all the time. He he
keeps Quran all the time. We kept Quran
all the time with him, booklets and materials.
And every time he got someone, a customer
with him, he would start a conversation about
Islam, and he would give him a Quran.
So he was using his work to do
Dawah as well.
So
one of our biggest problems in the Dawah
work is we are not organized.
If you compare Muslims to Christian missionaries, for
example, they are very organized.
They spend 1,000,000,000 of dollars every year, and
they are supported by organizations.
Most Muslims who work in the field of
Dawah,
they work individually.
They don't have organizations
supporting them, and they need to beg people
for money
to do that.
Sometimes, of course,
it's an individual
duty, and it has to be done collectively.
Otherwise, we will disappoint.
About a month ago, this sister called me,
and
she said,
Suham,
statistically,
75%
of all the people who accept Islam are
women. This is a fact.
In my case, I would say more than
90% of the people that I gave Shahada,
more than 90% have been women.
I don't know why.
Maybe irresistible but
I don't know why. But
I always use this to prove to people
that Islam is not a prison to women
because if Islam is bad to women, how
come that the great majority of people who
are accepting Islam are women? Doesn't make sense.
So this sister called and she was she
traveled to Jordan
to visit for some time, and she liked
the culture, she heard a lot about Islam,
So she wanted to know more. Eventually, Alhamdulillah,
a few days later, she came back and
she took shahab. Alhamdulillah.
So we sat a little bit for about
20 minutes in my office. I gave her
a little bit of an introduction to Islam.
And okay. Now, this is the time for
the tour. So I invited her to this
call, and I started to explain. As soon
as we entered the door,
there was this old,
brother who was sitting here. He saw us,
and he came toward us fast like a
bullet,
and he pushed himself on the conversation. And
he started to tell the lady about his
adventures in the past when he traveled to
this country and he's done. And he ignored
that I was there completely.
And he started to talk about terrorism. He
started to talk about
and he started to talk about terrorism. He
started to talk about sunnah and Shia and
all that. Na'avukar. So and he started to
give her the 5 pillars of Islam and
the all the stuff that I told her
about except for the his adventures and the
Sunni Shia things. Because when people come to
learn
you don't bombard them with all the bad
stuff. The division of the Sunnis and Shiites
and all that stuff and the terrorists. The
reason they are running away from their own
religion is because of division. This is Protestants.
This is Catholic. This is Jehovah. This is
is Catholic, this is Jehovah, this is Mormon.
So they hate this, and this is what
makes them leave. And when they come to
us, we told them, Yeah, we have Sufis,
we have Shia, we have Quran Muslim, we
have them. So you make them feel horrible.
And I'm gonna try to interrupt and tell
him I already told her that stuff, and
she has been reading about Islam. What is
this? You don't force yourself on people like
this. Okay?
Don't set my boundaries because
I studied Sharia, I studied Dawah for about
27 years. I know what I'm doing. Okay?
If you are an electrician, you're trying to
do your job, I'm not gonna step your
boundaries and
start to talk to your customers about electricity.
This is none of your business.
That is the word for the word to
invite.
And technically, that was to spread awareness of
Islam, to teach people about Islam. This
is our responsibility
to be the fidditch people for Islam, to
deliver
the message of Islam,
to convey and not to convert.
And the prophet said, Allah will say, your
job is just to convey, not to convert.
Their guidance is not up to you.
Guidance is where
in the hands of Allah SubhanAllah.
Sometimes you look at someone
and think, SubhanAllah.
I meet this I meet these people all
the time.
Take a look at him in a minute.
And he would he told me we're having
dinner together, and he told me that a
couple of years back he said he is
a revert to Islam, and he makes a
lot of dawmesho, but very active in dawm.
He told me, they were walking in the
streets of London one day giving out pamphlets
about Islam.
So they came across this guy, and that
guy,
as I said, he wore 2 3 things.
Sunglasses,
a pair of shoes, and shorts.
That's it. Because it's a it was the
summer maybe.
So and he said, this guy had tattoos
from head to toe. He was covered by
tattoos. Everything, you know, women, and
birds and things on his body. And he
said when I saw him alive,
he looked like the shaitan to me. So
I told my friend of me, get away
from this guy. He's gonna waste our time.
You know, he will never accept his time.
And he said he took shahala on the
spot.
Why? Because Hidayah is in the hands of
Allah Subhanahu wa'ala. Don't judge people by their
looks.
Sometimes you work with, someone for so many
years,
and they don't know you are a Muslim.
Why? Because we're trying to hide our identity.
We are afraid.
You don't look like a Muslim.
You don't use a Muslim, mate. Oh, they
start calling you Mike, Johnny, Bobby, Rich, all
that stuff. So nobody knows you are Muslim.
And so, how about in many cases, those
who accept Islam?
Several ones, they've told me, and I've seen
that before.
They said, where have you been?
Why didn't you teach us about Islam before
this? If you taught us about Islam before
this,
my dad, Gulati, would have accepted this sign
before he died.
But you guys, you never delivered a message
to us, and we are not doing enough
in dawah. So Allah said, we do dawah
to Muslims.
Those who don't practice the religion, we give
them naseih. This is the dawah to Muslims.
Of course, to new Muslims, to teach them
a part Islam, how to pray, how to
do things. And to non Muslims to deliver
the message to them. Whether they accept or
not, it's not your business.
So Allah subhanahu wa'ala tells
us in the Quran in Surat Al Kahr,
This is a truth from your Lord.
Let those who want to believe, believe. Those
who don't want to believe, it's up to
them.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and we read in
the seal of the Sahaba of the prophet
a lot of them who did dawah to
whole tribes and cities, and they accepted Islam.
Abu Dhan al Bifari,
Rifa accepted Islam
because of him, one person. And Rifa before
before Islam his tribe, they were what?
Thieves.
So he made them and they accepted Islam.
Abdul Fayed Al
Athaloussi,
he was the head of Islam, and Islam
was located somewhere between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
And
he came to Mecca for the Hajj before
Islam,
so he met the Fox News people,
Bin O'Reilly and,
Glenn Beck and Hanate,
the other
guys. So they told him, don't listen to
Muhammad. He's breaking families up. If you listen
to him, his words are like, say, magic.
So don't listen to him. He said,
they told me bad stuff about the prophet
until I fill my ears with cotton,
so I don't listen to him. But he
said when I was making dua around the
Kaaba and the prophet was reading Quran, I
overheard what he was describing,
and I took shahal after I spoke to
the prophet.
Of course, Malcolm Hicks,
the great majority
of the hundreds of thousands of African Americans
who are Muslim now in the US are
Muslim because of Malcolm Hicks.
Elijah Muhammad, as the head of the Nation
of Islam. I started the Nation of Islam
for 3 years for my masters.
And when he assumed the leadership, he led
people to Islam
and to renounce the teachings of his father,
Elijah Muhammad.
And
the
they left the nation of Islam, and they
became Muslims.
These are probably the
the 10th most successful dua in the world.
They have one thing in common.
All converts. All converts to Islam. None of
them was,
born and raised Muslim. All of them accepted
Islam. They are new Muslims. All of them.
The most famous and most successful Dua'an in
the world,
they they are revert to Islam, new people.
Why?
Because they speak good English,
they understand the culture in the West,
but us, most of us who come from
the Muslim world, they start to speak with
broken English. They don't know the language. They
don't know the culture.
So they, you know, they can't do that
in the best way. But these people, they
know how to talk to people. They talk,
they talk, and they walk. 4th, Josephus,
who
70 years old. When he got out several
years later, he moved to Egypt to study
at the last time. Now he has a
doctorate degree from Allah's heart in Sharia in
Arab.
So he speaks Arabic better than me than
history, of course, his English is better than
me. But he's a scholar now.
You have to turn the Khaim
quick, and you have use of Islam. Everybody
knows that he was a singer back in
the 19 6 seventies. You have Sheikh Abdulahin
Green that was talking about. And
so
many of them.
Very active in dawah.
So as I said before, there are different
types of dawah. Dawah to Muslims includes
advice to Muslims,
home dawkes.
Present dawkes
and lectures.
Dawes to the Muslims tours, come to the
Masjid. We visit them in their schools and
universities,
open house.
We invited to head up Ramadan.
We sent out pamphlets and books, and so
on and so forth. Interfaith, Dara Hope, and
Dara'a to keep Muslims,
the mentorship program. We helped them,
Yani, learn about Islam.
The qualifications for that, Shala, we have talked
to him 50 more minutes ago.
The first one, basic knowledge of Islam and
the culture.
You have to know about Islam and the
culture of the people that you're talking to.
Otherwise,
they they wouldn't know what you're talking about.
Of course, you have to speak good English.
The majority of the imams will come from
the Middle East, especially from Egypt. The English
is not the best.
Of course, if someone tries
to make down here, they have they they
know the culture and they speak good English,
but they don't have the knowledge.
So you have to have a combination of
everything,
the communication skills, the style,
and,
a Dahi basically is a salesperson.
So dawah to non Muslims.
And, of course, actions speak louder than words.
Most people who accept Islam that I gave
shahab accepted Islam because they admit a good
Muslim,
and they were impressed by them, and they
wanted to be as good as they are,
so they took shahad. Not by talking.
Of course, you have to
have the knowledge to speak about Islam. Because
if you wanna talk to someone and you
don't have the knowledge,
you will not be able to convey the
balance. And sometimes you would, give Islam on
that night. I remember when I started to
make dua a long long time ago in
Egypt,
I think I was in the 1st year
of college
in 1997.
And I went to that church in Cairo,
and I started to talk to that nun
in the Egyptian church.
And she told me my English was not
the best at that time.
So she told me, how come that you
say that Allah has 99 names in Islam,
but none of them is the loving one?
But Jesus is the loving one.
I didn't have the proper knowledge on how
to answer at that time. Is
Yani, does Allah
has one of his names that mean the
loving one?
So if you
wanna represent Islam, you have to have the
knowledge.
Of course, the wisdom.
Sometimes when people come to learn about Islam,
you tell them, oh, you talk to the
guy and tell them, oh, you have to
grow your beard.
And,
you talk to the lady, and you tell
her, you know, if you accept Islam, and
inshallah, you're gonna force your husband to accept
Islam, and please let him marry 4 wives
because this is part of Islam. He has
to marry 4 wives.
And, of course,
in one time, one of the shayoods, a
lady came to accept Islam, and he asked
her, did you take a shower before you
come?
I said, okay.
Do I smell bad or what?
No. Taking a shower is not an obligation,
and you don't have to have 2 witnesses
for someone to take shahad.
This is something recommended but not an obligation.
If someone comes to you and tell you,
I need to take shahad, don't tell them
to go home and take a shower. I
wouldn't ask them before they come. If
Don't tell them wait. No. Take shahada now,
and Allah
will help you.
Sincerity.
You give dawah
A few years back,
not a few years. A year and a
half ago,
one of my brothers,
he helped me and and everything. He said
he parked his car in the back of
the masjid.
He went after Aisha to get his car
and go home. He found this Muslim brother
standing with this un Muslim lady in the
door.
So when they saw him, and he said,
what are you guys doing here? The lady
started to run away,
and the brother stood there. He didn't know
what to do, so the brother said, okay.
What are you doing here in the dark?
He said, I'm showing her the light.
Show her the light in the dark.
He was giving her dua. This is what
he said.
You give her dua in the in the
back of the masjid in the dark. What
kind of dua is this? So you have
to have sincerity before you give dua to
people.
Don't show them the light in the dark.
Show them the light in the light,
And don't push. Here's the day. Someone will
come to the masjid, and they just they
they just come for a tour to learn
about Islam. When you see them, you land
to them, and you jump over them. Oh,
take Shahad and have to do it. Oh.
Or they come to you, we are interested
in Islam. We need to learn about Islam
to learn about Islam.
First thing I tell them, even if they
come to take shahada, I tell them,
if you need more time, we can't give
you more time. There's no rushing. There's no
pushing. Take all the time you need. They
say, no no no no. We want to
take shahada now.
But if you start pushing them,
it will go back. Oh, these guys, they
will take a commission if I accept
Islam. No.
If they come, tell them, please take all
the time and want. Of course, in your
heart, you want them to take Shahadah,
but this is a good technique. Always make
them feel like if they accept Islam or
not, it's not gonna make a difference for
you. They benefit themselves. They are not benefiting
you. But in Tadaq al Khalielah
who gives Hidayah, he benefits or she benefits
herself or himself.
The biggest challenges for Dawah,
number 1, the miserable condition of the Muslim
world.
There are so many miserable Muslim countries back
home.
If you need a proof,
the proof is all of us are here.
This is one proof. If you get from
Egypt or Lebanon or Somalia or Habashat, this
is a proof
that our countries are listenable. Okay?
Political corruption,
social problems, economic problems. So this is why
we are in a way, and we come
to this snow and this cold weather.
So many years back when I decided to
come to Canada
and,
America, someone was telling me, how come do
you leave your country with the cold weather
and go to Canada in the cold?
So I told him, believe me, brother.
The cold weather of Canada is much better
than the heat of corruption in my country.
Here, I can survive. Here, I can live
as a good Muslim. I I live a
decent life. But back home,
there's no way you can survive in such
an atmosphere before the, revolution.
Of course, we're responsible behavior of some Muslims.
Horrible people. Okay. I'll give you one story.
It's gonna break your heart.
This brother from a country I'm not gonna
leave the country.
He,
spoke to this lady
and may or maybe she was a new
Muslim.
Through they channeled on Facebook or Yahoo. She
accepted Islam, Alhamdulillah.
She and her family, none Muslim family sponsored
him to come here. And for several years,
after they got married, he stayed with him
in the house.
He he's a professional. He makes a lot
of money. He was not paying a penny
in the house.
He didn't give her a month or dowry.
When she read about Islam and she