This booklet serves as a beginner’s toolkit to understanding the importance of dawah and also how to give dawah. By the end of this booklet, you will have mastered a framework on how to convey the message of Islam effectively. This framework is like a skeleton which requires you to do further advanced studies in order to add meat to it. Has the thought ever crossed your mind that your non-Muslim friends, neighbours, colleagues, acquaintances and even the local supermarket cashier will one day face Allah on the Day of Judgement and will be made to spend their eternal lives suffering in the depths of Hell? What’s even more profound is that YOU have a part to play in their fate. How? Let me explain... Allah created man for a noble purpose: to worship Him and lead a virtuous life based on His teachings and guidance. How would man know his role and the purpose of his existence unless he received clear and practical instructions on what Allah wants him to do? Thus Allah chose from every nation a prophet to convey His message to the people. The sole mission of every prophet and messenger was ultimately to guide humanity to paradise. However, the last of these prophets was Mohammad (PBUH) and there is no one else to come after him. So the question arises: whose responsibility is it to guide mankind to paradise? Allah answers this in the Quran where He says: “And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to all that is good (Islam), enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.” (Quran 3:104) As Allah clearly states, it is our responsibility as Muslims to enlighten people about Islam and to continue spreading the message of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). We learn from this verse that the one who adopts this noble duty and calls to Islam will be successful. In fact, taking the job of the prophets will not only result in satisfaction in this world, but also immense reward in the hereafter. The Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said: “Whoever guides (another) to a good deed will get a reward similar to the one who performs it.” (Muslim) So imagine you guide one person to Islam, and they start praying salaah, fasting, performing hajj and giving zakat. You would get the reward for all of that without ever doing the deeds yourself! But it does not stop there. Imagine that person gets married and has children who also grow up to be pious Muslims who do good deeds; you would get the reward for that too! But wait, there’s MORE! If they then have pious children who grow up to be practising Muslims and do good actions, then you will get the reward for all of their good deeds as well. In fact, this could go on for generation after generation until the Day of Judgement. You could be standing on the Day of Judgement, witnessing crowds of people, all of whom are descendants of the person who became Muslim through your hands, enter into Paradise. Subhanallah the reward is unimaginable! Allah says in the Quran: “Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” (Quran 13:11) So making dawah a key part of your life defines who you are, which will have an immensely positive impact on you and the Ummah. My dear brothers and sisters, let us not delay our responsibility any longer. It’s time for us to step up to the mark and perform the duty of dawah commanded by Allah. This booklet will guide you through some simple steps to giving effective dawah, so that you can help bring the light of Islam into someone’s life inshaa’Allah. An effective structure to introduce the foundations of Islam is the GORAP, which stands for: The GORAP method allows you to control your conversation and avoid difficult situations. It allows you to take the non-Muslim on a journey that reveals some of the compelling reasons for Islam being the truth. To learn the GORAP effectively, practise on a friend or a member of your family first. But before we go into the GORAP we need to look at how to initiate a dawah conversation.
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