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Da‘wah in Complex Settings (3) | Ra’d ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz

PART (1) AND (2) discussed the first and second situations in which dâʿîs may find themselves today, according to Shaykh Al-Islâm Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy upon him. Here we discuss his third of three. (3) Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong:…

Da’wah in Complex Settings (2) | Ra’d ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz

PART (1) DISCUSSED the first situation—a position of powerlessness—in which dâʿîs may find themselves today, according to Shaykh Al-Islâm Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy upon him. Here we discuss his second of three. (2) Leaving off a Commendable Act for the…

Da’wah in Complex Settings (1) | Ra’d ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz

THERE IS NO question that there are few or no serious fiqhi (legal) problems connected with the Muslim individual’s living in a society where Islamic principles and teachings reign supreme. Difficulties, however, crop up when this society distances itself from Islam—and the…

Knowledge Is the ‘Sine Qua Non’of Calling to Islam

ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE (ʿIlm) of Islam—which is to say, Heavenly Revelation—is, perhaps, the prime distinction of the successful dâʿî—and, no surprise, Allah commands that ʿilm should come first. Thus for actions and utterances to be right with Allah, they must be predicated on sound ʿilm. Allah…