New Possibilities for Inviting People to God

For the first time in history, these reduced distances to the barest minimum and made it possible for a preacher of Islam to make the entire world his arena for dawah work or conveying God’s message to people. This was an expression of a tradition of the Prophet wherein he predicted that a time would come when the message of Islam would reach into every house in the world: “To every home, big or small, God will bring the message of Islam.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 23814) 5. In the Introduction to my book Aqliyat-e Islam, first published in 1978, I wrote: “In the Free World, extraordinary new possibilities for dawah have opened up. However, this exception is the Communist world because it is entirely under coercive rule. Free opportunities for dawah are unavailable there.” However, just thirteen years after I wrote these lines, conditions changed considerably. The end of 1991 was also accompanied by the end of the Communist Empire. Thus, the same opportunities to convey God’s message to people were opened up in erstwhile communist countries as were previously available only in the non-communist world.