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    Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah
    Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah
    Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah
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    Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah

    By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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    Dawah is the principal mission of the Muslim ummah. It is to call people to God. It is to convey, in a peaceful manner, God's message to humankind. It is to explain the reality and purpose of life to people in a manner that is intelligible to them. It aims to enable seekers of Truth to learn about God's Creation Plan.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoodword Books
    Release dateMay 21, 2019
    ISBN9781393846826
    Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah

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      Dawah - Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

      Dawah:

      The Mission of Muslim Ummah

      Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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      Introduction

      Shahadah or ‘witnessing’ is a very exalted task. God will bless those who engage in it with a lofty position in Paradise.

      Shahadah is precisely what is also called dawah, or calling people towards God. It is to convey, in a peaceful manner, God’s message to humankind. It is to explain the reality of life to people in a manner that is intelligible to them. It aims to enable seekers of Truth to learn about God’s Creation Plan. And as for those who do not have any desire to search for Truth, shahadah is to engage in providing them the necessary evidence for Truth so that in the Hereafter they will not be able to claim that they had no idea what God had wanted of them.

      Different words are used in the Quran to refer to shahadah or the dawah mission, such as tabligh (5:67), which means to preach, and ‘bearing good news and giving warning’ (4:165). The literal meaning of shahadah is ‘to witness’. Shahadah and dawah both mean the same thing, but the former contains an element of particular emphasis, indicating that it entails engaging in the work of dawah in such a complete way that the very being of the one who does this becomes a total embodiment of dawah.

      This is what shahadah or witnessing is. The belief, held

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