Yusha Evans – Dawah Workshop #01
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The call is aimed at "will" in Islam, with a desire to "will be cast out" by the Mecca people. Islam is about the concept of "will" and how it relates to the concept of "will" in English. The importance of DLive in the Christian faith and the principles of protecting Islam is emphasized, along with the importance of learning the rules of fortification. The importance of protecting Islam is emphasized, and the book Fit of DLive by Mu'am Mohammed Saj Torre covers the importance of learning to fulfill obligations and eat healthy.
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Night, and we yesterday trying to make sure
that we are streaming and all that is
good. Alhamdulillah.
Who was here last week for the beginning?
Yeah. So we're gonna kinda revisit a couple
of things just now that where everything's going
on video.
They wanna get started,
straight away into,
our intensive dawah course that will be going
on over the next 6 months to a
year.
Now last week, we discussed
the reasons why we are giving Dawah, the
call to Tawhid, etcetera. What did I say?
What what is Dawah?
What did I say Dawah was?
Invitation to Tawhid. That's it. A lot of
people think, and we just I I made
this very specific
and I gave the analogy,
about the people being brought on the bus.
We'll go over that analogy again, just to
make sure everybody online has it as well.
That a lot of people when you say
they think it's inviting just to Islam, inviting
to whatever it might be, inviting to the
religion which is
in and of itself correct.
But to be very specific, when we look
at the sira of the prophet alayhi salatu
wa salam, his was to tawhid and Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Because his initial dua was to the people
of Mecca. And the people of Mecca already
believed that Allah existed. Yes or no? The
people of Mecca already believed Allah existed. So
if you would have gone around telling people
say you believe in Allah, they would have
said okay, we believe in Allah. Now what?
And
the point was that
he wanted them to sing about Allah in
worship.
That Allah is
Say Allah is 1. This was his dawah.
This was his call. Even when he
went to,
when he went to and told him that
you will be cast out by your people,
he said, are they going to cast me
out for a single word? And what was
that single word that he wanted from them?
Uhad. To say that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is Uhad. Take all of the gods that
they have been worshiped in, get rid of
every single one of them, and give that
singular worship to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I said the same thing in the hadith
of Mu'ad ibn Jabal. When he sent Mu'ad
ibn Jabal to Yemen, he said you're going
to a land of the people of the
book. And if we know that they are
people of the book, then we know they
already believe in Allah. If you go and
tell a Christian, I want you to believe
in God. What is he gonna say?
I already believe in God. What what's what
what do you mean? Or if you go
and tell a Jew, believe that God exists.
I already believe that God exists. It's different
than dealing with the atheist, which we'll get
to later
on. But he said, let the first thing
you call them to to be tawhid and
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That is the core principle of this religion.
That is the core principle of this religion.
The core of Islam, the entirety of the
Quran, the entirety of the sunnah, the entirety
of the Sira is all about the concept
of tawheed and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Because tawhid and Allah is the reason why
existence
exists.
It is the reason why existence exists. And
Allah says this in the Quran, had there
been more than 1 had there been more
than 1 God, had there been more than
1 creator, had there been more than 1,
then the heavens and earth both have been
destroyed. This is not possible.
It has to be a singular
And the word
does not mean 1
as we think in numbers. What is the
number 1?
This is this is basic Arabic grammar.
What is, what do you say when you
say 1?
Waheed. But if you take waheed and add
it to waheed, what does it become?
It's name. You add another one and it
becomes You can divide it and it becomes
a half.
This is not how we refer to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. When we say,
means one that cannot have a second.
One that cannot be divided.
One that is alone by itself.
Alone.
And this is actually the oneness
that Jesus,
peace be upon him, preached.
When he when we look at the Bible
as it is still,
written today by the Christians, which we're gonna
go into how that became what it is
today. We we cannot say any of it.
We know for sure to be truly from
Jesus, peace be upon him, or God because
we have no evidence of it.
But when he came to them, he told
I'll give you 2 verses that he explained
to them. Number 1, they came to him
and tried to trick him. Right? They asked
him a question. They said, well here you're
a good teacher. And you can tell from
the language that it was kind of in
a mocking way. Right? Here you're a good
teacher, so teach us. Yeah?
What is the greatest commandment?
Because according to
the
the Hasidic Jews, according to the Talmud, they're
all like the the commandments are all equal.
Right? There's no difference between them. He said,
I cannot tell you He he he also
tricked them back. He said, I cannot tell
you the greatest commandment without telling you the
first commandment.
And he said the first commandment is hear,
oh Israel, the Lord your God is 1.
And the word he would have used in
his own language, he spoke the language of
Aramaic,
would have been very similar to the word
Almost grammatically
the same. Even if he was quoting even
if he quoted from the the the Old
Testament, quoting from the Torah and he used
Hebrew, he would have used the word,
which means the exact same thing. That Allah
alone is one singular. There's nothing like him.
He cannot be added to and multiply, divide,
and subtract it from, etcetera. He said, the
lord your god is 1. And love the
lord your god with all your heart, with
all your might, with all your strength. And
then love your neighbor as you love yourself.
He said all of the law and all
of the prophets who came before me hang
upon these two principles.
I want to ask you really quick. What
did he just describe?
He summed up what?
The entire religion of Islam.
He summed up the entirety of the religion
of Islam, even the one that we have.
Because if I were to take the religion
of Islam
in a basic, basic, basic principle and divided
all of Allah's rulings
into 2 parts.
All of Allah's rulings into 2 parts.
On one half, you would have the rights
that belong to Allah. You would have the
rights that belong to Allah. For instance, when
we pay salah, we pray salah, we pay
all of these rights that belong to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. And on the other side
of the law are the rights that belong
to human beings, other people. The rights that
belong to other beings and human beings and
other people. And he's summed up the spirit
of that law that belongs to God is
that you love the Lord your God with
all your heart, with all your might, with
all your strength. You give everything to Allah
that belongs to him, with with all that
you have, with.
And then the second part, he said the
overwhelming principle or the spirit of the law
between human beings is to love your neighbor
like you love yourself. That our prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam not say something very similar.
Did he not say something very similar? That
you love for your brother what you love
for yourself? He said everything hangs upon these
two principles. He taught religion. He taught the
deen.
There's another verse in John 17
verse
3. He said, this is life eternal.
If I say to you that this is
life eternal, what am I saying?
This is your path to paradise.
This is your way to paradise. This is
your way to Jannah. He said, this is
life eternal.
That they know you,
the only
true God. That they know you, the only
true God. And that they know Jesus Christ
whom you have
sent. Whom you have sent. He didn't say
whom you gave birth to or whom is
part of you. He said whom you have
sent.
He said whom you have sent. He said
that was it. This was the way to
paradise. It's to know God as one and
only and to know Jesus Christ whom you
have sent. Really quickly, I'm gonna make a
small little side note. When I say Jesus,
I use the word Christ. Are we allowed
to do that as Muslims?
Yes. Why?
What does the word Christ mean?
Christ comes from the Greek word, Christos,
which means anointed one.
Anointed one. That's all it means linguistically.
When we say Jesus, we say Al Masih.
What does Masih mean?
Masih, wiped over, anointed one. Same thing. So
it is there's no problem. And I've had
some brother come in. You can't say Jesus
Christ. It does not mean deity in any
form of fashion. It literally means the messiah
and the anointed one. And so we give
him that respect. Jesus.
So that is why we focus on tahid
alone because this was the message of all
the NBL, was to focus on
Allah alone. And I gave you the analogy
that if we brought 500 people here, and
I spent 4 hours with them teaching them
about hijab,
teaching them about the beard, teaching them about
why we don't eat pork, etcetera. And they
agreed to all those principles.
And they left here, and they died before
they reached home. The plane crashed, and they
all died, that I would not have saved
any of them from hellfire. That those principles
alone will not save you from Jahannam.
But if I had brought them here and
spent 30 minutes teaching them about the tawhid
that Muslims have in Allah, the
mono the pure monotheism
theism because Islam is the only pure monotheistic
religion left on the planet Earth today, and
they agreed to that. They took the shahada
and they left and they all died. Then
if they were sincere in their shahad, they
would not only be people of paradise, they
would probably be high ranking people of paradise
because they would meet Allah with very few
sins. The only the sins they committed from
the time they left me to the time
they died. So this is why tahid
is awwilin. Tawhid is first. It has to
be the principle of our dawah. So the
goal in going forward in all these things,
when we start getting to different religions,
when people ask me how do I give
dawah to an individual. Right? Because you always
have this is my number one question in
dawah. I have a friend, how do I
give him dawah?
That's very, very,
specific question. It's like asking, and this is
why Dawah is so important, and this is
why studying it is so important,
is that Dawah is like the medical field.
The medical field. If I were to call
a doctor, let's say I have I have
a few friends who are doctors. Right? I
were to call them and say, my daughter
is sick. What should I do? What's he
gonna say?
He's gonna start asking me questions. What what
what what's going on with her? What are
the symptoms? What is this? What is her
issues? He needs to know some more information.
Correct? He can't just be like, okay, well
just give her this medicine. He doesn't know
what's going on. That's the same when you
ask me, how do I give my neighbor
the I don't know very much about your
neighbor. You know what I mean? I I
need to know a little bit If you
want to give them very good Dawah, I
need a little bit more. If not, if
not, then the general principle is call them
to tawhid. Just like if I were to
say somebody is sick, I don't know any
of the symptoms, nobody's sick. Well, the general
thing is make sure they're getting plenty of
fluids, Make sure they're getting lots of rest.
You know, it's, give them some vitamin c.
There are some general things you could do
for most illnesses. The same with that one.
But the goal is to find out where
this person is. If I meet someone,
I want to know where their mind is
in a relationship to
Wa Ta'ala.
And from there, how do I bridge the
gap between that
and Tawhid? For instance, if I speak to
someone and they tell me that and I'm
gonna give you some of these principles about
how you can ask like 3 questions and
within 2 minutes find out exactly where somebody
is. Let's say I'm speaking to a Christian
who is a Trinitarian.
I know that the barrier between them and
Tawhid
is the belief in Jesus, peace be upon
him, as God in the flesh and the
begotten son of God. I know that is
the the the barrier for them. If I
can break that barrier down,
then I create a bridge
between them and Terahdin. Whether or not they
walk across it is up to them. But
I'm going to make that bridge for them
and show them the path from where they
are to the path of Tahiti.
And then they can decide whether or not
they want to walk it. Does that make
sense? That is the principle of dua. Find
out where this person is in a short
amount of time and then bring them over
insha'a'a'a'a.
Alright. This morning, this is the principle we're
going to stick with and then we'll, have
some nice breakfast.
I I had a taste of it, a
little bit early last night. Please forgive me,
but it's one of my favorite meals, Keema.
So I had to make sure it was
it was legit for you guys, inshallah. It's
legit. It's legit. Brother Ekram's wife did a
very good job. May Allah bless her.
Everything in Islam
has a place.
This is one of the things I love
about this religion and I've loved about this
religion since I first accepted
it 26 years ago, is that everything in
Islam has a place. It's systematic. It is
the most systematic
religion on the planet Earth.
Everything has its place.
Now when it comes to Dawah, I will
tell you that Dawah
is an obligation.
There is no question about this fact. It
is an obligation. It is upon
every single Muslim. And we know this from
one verse if if there's there's a lot.
I I'm gonna go through many things throughout
this course to show you how it's obligation.
But if there the scholars have said that
if there was only one evidence
of the weight of the it would be
the verse in
where
Allah
says,
Call into the way of your Lord with
wisdom and with good speech and argue in
them in a way that is best. The
very first word gives us the understanding
of its weight. Allah says,
What grammatical state is this word in?
Amr. It's in the command state. Allah is
giving an order.
The same one like he says.
This is an order for you to establish
salah.
To zakat. Pay zakat. This is an order
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah is telling
us
And
I'm gonna ask just in case, there's 2
types of
orders in the Quran. There are specific orders,
meaning that there might be an order that
was specifically for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Or there might be an order that
is specifically for men, or specifically for women,
or for for a specific group. And then
there are general orders that are meant for
anyone who comes across this verse. What,
category do you think this verse falls in?
General.
It is a general command. You don't see
anything before it. There's no
there's no there's no there's no
specifics about whom Allah is speaking to. He
starts it with the command,
meaning anyone who comes across this verse and
believes in this book, you have been given
an order by Allah
to call to his way. To call to
his way. Now this gives us 2 more
principles that we'll discuss today.
All orders in Islam are divided into 2
categories.
And
means that it is an obligation upon you.
You must do it. You must do it.
You are solely responsible for it, and no
one else other than you is responsible for
it. And no one else can be held
accountable for not doing it other than you.
For instance, salaam.
I can't ask I can't call you on
the phone and be like, yeah, Habibi, you
know, I'm I'm a little bit tired or
I'm late at work. Can you pray salah
for me? And then when I get home,
I'll pray, Isha for you and, you know,
we'll even that out. Can I do that?
No. You are responsible for salah and you're
responsible for if you don't do it. And
it's the one of the things that you
will not move on the day of judgment
until you asked about it. And the prophet
said if your salah is in order, everything
else will be in order. If it's not
in order, everything else will be out of
order. So it is mandatory upon
you. Then there is which is a communal
obligation.
Meaning that there must be enough people doing
it in a sufficient manner so that it
can be said that the duty was fulfilled.
One of those examples is Salatul Janazah.
Is Salatul Janazah obligatory upon everyone?
No. Because that would be a burden. Imagine
if you were living in a Muslim country
and Salatul Janazah was farda'ayn. You'd never get
anything else done because people are always dying.
Right? So it is a communal obligation. As
long as there's enough people and there's a
difference of opinion upon scholars how many people
have to be there, but as long as
someone has prayed for this person, the rest
of the community is free from this obligation.
But if no one shows up
for an obligation, what happens?
Anybody know the ruling behind this? If no
one shows up, it reverts to being
It reverts to being ford
until the obligation is met. That means everyone
becomes culpable if no one did it. Everyone
becomes culpable.
Falls into the category
in its general state, meaning that if the
world was in a state where it should
be, then it is a fardqifiy obligation.
As Allah says
that there must be a group of you.
We'll get that verse deeply later. There must
be a group of you who are calling
to the way of Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, ordering
good, commanding good, forbidding evil, and it's these
who will be successful. Allah said there always
must be a group in this Ummah. So
it is in its general sense.
But the scholars have said, number 1,
if Islam we live in an era if
we live in an era where Islam is
under attack.
Islam is under attack. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is being mocked. The Quran is being mocked.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is being mocked.
Then the the the
obligation of Daw becomes because
it is very similar in its rulings to
the obligations of war. The obligations of war.
Like war in order to go out
and expand and and and spread Islam or
or I mean, or expand territories to deal
with threats that might be out there. This
is a fard kifaya obligation. Right? You send
a group of army out, the rest can
stay at home and they don't have to
do anything. But if the city comes under
attack or the Muslim nation or the Muslim
lands come under attack, then it is a
obligation to defend it. It's a obligation to
defend it.
Is very similar. We live in an era
where Islam is being attacked. Islam is being
mocked. Our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is being
mocked. Allah
himself
is being mocked. So it becomes a further
obligation
on every Muslim to defend the honor of
Islam, to defend the honor of the prophet,
salallahu alayhi wasallam, to defend the honor of
the Quran, and to defend Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Also,
I don't believe we're meeting the rules of
fortify either. Do you think there's enough people
out there in the world doing dawah in
a sufficient enough manner so that we can
say the rest of us are cool?
No. There's too many people who don't know
anything about Islam. There are too many people
who are ignorant of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So in both ways,
becomes
In both ways, becomes
upon us. Because Islam is under attack. The
religion is under attack. Allah is under attack.
The Quran is under attack. As well as
there's not enough people doing it. There's not
enough people doing it.
So we have to understand
that this is important,
that it is an obligation.
And lastly, as, and we'll finish up on
this principle,
on the next session, inshallah.
Lastly,
since it is an obligation,
the number one excuse I hear
around the globe, and I've been hearing this
for 20 years, of why people are not
involved in Dawah even though they will admit
that it's an obligation.
Can you by telling me, what do you
think, the number one excuses? Busy?
That's one of them.
That's one of the top 3.
Knowledge. I don't know how.
I don't know how, and I'm too busy.
That's that's top 1 and 2 right there.
I'm too busy, and I don't know how.
Does this free you from an obligation in
Islam?
Let's say salah. Let's take salah. A fard
ayn obligation. Do you agree with me that
Dawah is fard ayn in our current circumstances,
especially here in America?
Yeah?
If I agree that Salah is Fard Ayn,
and I and I I don't pray. Let's
say I have never prayed. And I say
because number 1, I never learned to pray,
and number 2, I'm too busy. Am I
excused?
Why? Why am I not excused?
I don't know how.
Because in the Sharia,
anything that is an obligation,
by default knowing its rulings
of how to perform it is also an
obligation.
They go hand in hand. If salah is
an obligation,
then knowing the rulings of salah is an
obligation.
And anything that is a precursor to it
is an obligation.
Like tahara. Knowing how to purify myself. This
is why the books go in this order
in fit books. Tahara comes first. Right? Because
I can't pray unless I am pure. So
I need to know the rulings of Tahara.
I need to know the arkan of wudu.
I need to know the arkan of salah,
etcetera.
Those are obligatory
by by default. In being busy, there's no
there's no excuse for this. We have to
make time for these things. You have to
make time. Make time to do them and
make time to learn the rulings. So if
Dawah, we have agreed, is a fard an
obligation,
then by default knowing the rulings of Dawah
are is an obligation.
Knowing the prerequisites of Dawah is an obligation.
This is the entire reason why I developed
this course, was so that we can
by the time you leave, there's no excuse
between you and Allah
You will have enough info to know how
the prerequisites of that or the prerequisites of
the du'at,
and you will know how to go about
performing
this act of worship to Allah, which
we will get into as well. How deep
of an act of worship it is. Because
what I'm gonna give you a secret on
that you'll learn later on
is it is one of the acts of
worship
that has
the most, if not one of the most,
immense
potential for reward of any act that you
can perform.
It has the most,
if not one of the most,
potentials
for reward
that any act of Islam has. And I'll
explain that in in
in the coming sessions.
Any questions really quickly before we have breakfast
on this principle of it being an obligation
and being a obligation
and the fact that you must learn it?
No?
Was I crystal clear enough? Alhamdulillah. Because usually
when there's no questions
I like questions, by the way. It lets
me know you're listening. Because usually when there's
no questions,
either number 1, you understood everything beautifully and
you did not need to question anything about
any of it, which is the good part.
Or number 2, you didn't understand anything. You're
half asleep.
My my my my broken southern English, which
we don't have a real grammar here in
English,
and then in south, I don't know if
you've realized that. The southern people don't have
grammar, so you don't know even know what
to ask about. Southern people don't have grammar,
by the way. English is one of the
weakest languages on the planet Earth. I know
this by by default. It's it's it's,
grammar is is is atrocious.
You know? But southern people, we take it
a whole step further. We just say, we
gotta get rid of everything. We take entire
sentences and make it one word. I know
you lived in Texas long enough to have
heard this. For instance, in the South, if
I want to say, do you want to?
How do you say that in Texas? Say
it the same way in South Carolina.
It's one word,
yon'too.
That's it. Yon'too?
Yon'too means do you want to?
So there's lots of there's lots of, sentences
in the English language that are just like
this. Trust me. Where I'm from in the
South and you go to Alabama, Mississippi, there
are people who will speak
a whole paragraph in 4 words. And you
need to know what they're saying. If not,
you're you are completely lost. Like my, I
watched this one show one time. It just
came out. It happened to be on Discovery
Channel because I watched Discovery Channel a lot.
It's called Duck Dynasty.
And you guys heard of that show where
these guys sell things? There was this old
guy named Cyrus.
He spoke in such a heavy He did
that a lot. Put ball sims. They had
to put,
subtitles on him for English language
for English language. But I could understand my
wife would be like, what is he saying?
And I would know exactly what he's saying.
And my father does the same thing. When
my father speaks to my my daughter and
my wife, they both look
at me like They look at me waiting
for the translation because my dad has a
very deep southern drawl. So that was obligation.
Insha'Allah. We're gonna learn to fulfill that obligation.
But now let's fulfill the obligation of eating
some nice keema breakfast, inshAllah.
This is the book I have brought today
for you to take a look at. There's
another one. This is called Fit of Dawah
by Mufti Mohammed Sajjad. It is literally 40
ahadith
on dawah and commentary on it. It's a
very good book. Alhamdulillah. I've used it quite
frequently. So take a look at this. Try
to find inshallah. Assalamu alaikum.
Can you just come up a little bit?
The sisters are gonna come and get their
food inshallah.
We always give the sisters the preference inshallah.
So come up. Let the few sisters who
come and get their food. Once they get
their food, then you guys can, can feast
like animals insha'Allah.