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Islam and the Quran

82 The whole life of the Prophet of
Islam was based on dawah mission, but

the entire Muslim world is not

aware of this. What led to the

shift of emphasis?

often experienced this when I spoke to several educated
I Muslims and asked them why do they not do dawah
work? They said that dawah work was only the Prophet’s
work, while their own work was to pray, fast and establish
seminaries. This is wrong thinking. The Prophet had to
spread his message to his contemporaries, but what will
have to be done with the generations that follow? The
importance of doing dawah work was almost deleted
from recent Muslim history. Some focused on the revival
of the Muslim community, while others on different
aspects of religion. However, nobody worked for revival
of dawah work.

This should raise our sense of responsibility. We should
understand that we must now rigorously work for dawah,
which the Muslim community has least focused on.

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