Shift in Focus

CONSEQUENCES OF MISINTERPRETATION In the external world, believers are given a mission of Dawah (invitation) and Shahadah (bearing witness), creating a vast field for serving the Deen (religion) of Allah. Shahadah means that you fully utilize your capacity for expression and communication to convey God’s message to those who are heedless of Him or have turned away from Him. You present it with such intensity and conviction, as if these divine realities are first-hand experiences that you are witnessing and testifying to before the world. This is a mission that never ends. One never feels that there is a lack of opportunities to fulfill it. It involves you in an immensely active life, for as long as there is a single person on earth straying from the path of God, and as long as you have a pen in hand or words in your mouth, there is work to be done. However, the interpretation mentioned above took this valuable field away from the believers by describing their external mission not as bearing witness, but as “revolution,” thereby depriving you of this precious field. Under the concept of shahada and tabligh (dissemination), the ultimate goal for a preacher is to fully deliver God’s message to God’s servants. However, as a natural consequence of its structure, this interpretation assumes the responsibility that “the ultimate goal we wish to achieve in this world is to end the leadership of the sinful and corrupt, and