Dawah Thinking

people are able to undertake journeys on a large scale. The whole world has, in fact, become a global village. From the point of view of dawah, easy access to facilities for travel has facilitated its performance. It is not just the passengers who have become mobile, it is the madu who are on the move everywhere. Prior to the age of modern communications, there was an unbridgeable distance between the dayee and the madu. Now with speedy transport systems, the madu himself is coming to the dayee. And for a variety of reasons, many gaps have been bridged between the dayee and the madu. In this respect, we can aptly call the modern age the age of the madu. While this state of affairs prevails all over the world, it is more common in tourist spots. One of these is the State of Jammu and Kashmir. It is estimated that the number of tourists in J&K is almost equivalent to its population. Therefore, this State has a special opportunity to communicate the divine message to its visitors. The easiest way is to give them copies of the Quran and other books on Islam. The tourists, that is, the madu, are approachable in every part of the State. If the spirit of dawah is alive in the Kashmiri Muslims, they will find innumerable opportunities for dawah work in their own immediate vicinity. One of the two best things The mission of calling people to God is a divine mission. The Quran describes such a mission as “one of the two best things.” (9:52) .That is, such a mission is destined to achieve “one of the two best things”. The first “best thing” is ideological, while the “second best” is practical. In other words, the true divine mission will surely meet with one success or the other -- either success in dawah work, or success in bringing about a revolution. In present times, in all those places which have been the hub of the culture of violence in the name of Jihad, people are duty-bound to make every effort to rectify the situation, that is, to make those who stoop to violence aware of their error, to call upon them to shun violence and adopt a peaceful course, to tell them that their actual duty is to convey to people the message of truth and not to engage in confrontation with them; to impress upon them the fact that their duty, being believers, is to treat non-Muslims as madu and not as enemies; and wherever they live, to work towards promulgating the