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1 How can busy people find time for
(
dawah work the task of conveying
)
’
God s message to others ?

oday, we are living in the age of social and print media.
TI had found an answer to this question way back, even
before I had shifted to Delhi. I had once gone to South
India in a train. When I alighted, a Christian father and I
started walking together towards our nearby destination.
I was carrying a suitcase with me. The father told me that
he had to go in the same direction. At a crossroad, when
I turned to go in a different direction, he opened his
suitcase and gave me a small leaflet which was very well
printed and had been published in Ohio. At that time,
I had discovered that doing dawah work is very easy in
today’s world – all you have to do is carry literature with
you and give it to people around.

2 Why did Muslims not win in

the Battle of Uhud?

ou will certainly have to pay the price of your mistakes,
Yeven if you are a prophet. Muslims had made a mistake
during the Battle of Uhud.

‘Uhud’ is the name of a mountain in Arabia and the
battle was fought in the shadow of this mountain in the
year 624 AD. The commander had instructed the archers
positioned at the top of the mountain to not leave their

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