Fasting and Dawah Ilallah CONTENTS

In the following verse dawah ilallah has been called ‘helping God’ or Nusrat-e-khuda, “Believers, be God’s helpers. (The Quran, 61:14) It means to become wholly honest in relation to God and to feel and evince total goodwill towards all one’s fellow men. Muslims are duty-bound as followers of Prophet Muhammad to undertake dawah ilallah. Giving Zakat for propagation of the message of true religion is an effective way to perform one’s duty of dawah ilallah assuring God’s reward for those who spend their wealth for God’s cause: “Those who spend their wealth for God’s cause may be compared to a grain of corn which sprouts into seven ears, with a hundred grains in each ear: for God grants manifold increase to whom He wills; God is infinite and all knowing.” (The Quran, 2:261) Fasting prepares a believer for the mission of God. Giving zakat for the sake of God is a way to