The Call of Dawah in the Modern Age March-April

Unfortunately the example set by Syed Jamaluddin Afghani is being constantly repeated by Muslims in our times. Muslims everywhere are engaged in political battles with their rulers on one count or another, to the extent that the word ‘Islamic dawah’ has, for Muslim rulers, become almost synonymous with subversion. Such nefarious practices have led not only to the loss of full cooperation by Muslim governments in the dawah mission, but also to a situation in which, even when individuals or groups attempt to engage in dawah work, quite independently of official support, the government treats such efforts with extreme suspicion and creates obstacles to their being a success. It is high time to divorce from dawah work any political machinations designed to destabilize or even unseat Muslim rulers, whether it be in the name of Islam or for any other cause, so that in every Muslim country, Islamic missionaries may benefit from the cooperation of their national governments. Only with such aid will it be possible to bring about on the desired scale a revival of Islam, the introduction of non-Muslims to Islam and the reform of Muslims themselves. Furnishing a task force Present opportunities for the satisfactory discharge of Islamic dawah are better now than ever before, and if they are to be availed of, a task force must be raised. To this end the Quran enjoins the preparation of select individuals by giving them training exclusively directed towards their gaining a deeper understanding of religious matters. When by dint of intensive study of the subject, they have become thoroughly versed in the message they have to convey, and the proper strategy for its communication, it will be their duty to spread themselves across different nations in order to disseminate the concept