Dakwah is not The one and Only

assalamualaikum

my post today sounds a bit awkward isn’t it? Well what can i really I’m now deviating myself from the true message and making my own fatwa haha. Just joking

not really. What I meant by that actually is why people must look at the word dakwah through a narrow perspective.

Yesterday I had a long discussion from Jamaahtul tabligh from Malaysia. The one that i talked too is quite knowledgeable and he was being reasonable in answering my question. At the end I did learn something from him and he did agree with my suggestion in term of dakwah, ghash, bida’ah and wisdom in preaching the islam to the muslims.

They term their ghash as going out to seclude yourself in a mesjid and do call upon the locals to do amar makruf nahi mungkar. Although what they are doing “ ta’awwanu a’la birri wat taqwa” is based on quran but there is no evidence showing that one person should go out (seclude oneself and do iktikaf) for three day, or 3 month etc. Besides, they also quote that the sahabah went out from madinah to spread the message of islam. But which one comes first, the dakwah or the knowledge? Read properly the stories of Prophet Muhammad saw, the sahabah and the four imams.

I’m not here to condemn them or to fire-up hatred among the jamaat and me, rather i see them as my brother in islam and whatever group they belong to, this is not a reason why i must be quite if something not right happening in front of my eyes. And for what that’s right, i acknowledge and put my complement.

Anyway that is not what i’m going to talk about.

Dakwah mean to deliver and i don’t agree to some group claiming that only

“This method is right, that’s not.”

“We are right and you are not.”

“Look at our way doing the dakwah and yet we never see you doing it”

Allah created people differently and the message of islam is universal.

As long the dakwah is based on authentic sources (al-quran and authentic sunnah) that’s fine.

Whoever you are, whether you are sufi , tablighi jamaat or wahabi if you grip this principle you’re on the right track.

Wasalam