Islam: Questions And Answers - Inviting Others to Islam

225 Pages·2007·2.03 MB·English

by  Muhammad

Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 19
Inviting Others to Islam
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Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 19
Inviting Others to Islam
Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
B.Sc., DipHE
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© Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, 2003
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Contents
Introduction ..............................................................................1
Chapter 1...................................................................................3
Rulings on enjoining what is good and forbidding
what is evil...........................................................................3
32725: She is complaining about her
husband’s attachment to the Society for the
Promotion of Virtue.........................................................3
32693: Da’wah via private chat ......................................5
13450: I lose my temper with smokers
– what should I do?.........................................................6
11403: Enjoining what is good and forbidding
what is evil ......................................................................9
8957: Denouncing evil actions in one’s heart ...............14
10287: Ruling on justifying evil actions by
saying that a lot of people are doing it ..........................16
9287: Degrees of denouncing evil actions,
and sitting with people who do evil actions..................17
10231: How should she deal with friends
who are not religiously committed?..............................18
10218: Advising a person to his face ............................20
10214: Is it hypocrisy to forbid something
but then do it oneself?...................................................20
Chapter 2.................................................................................22
Means of Da’wah...............................................................22
44594: Advice to one who slanders his Muslim
brothers and accuses them without any proof...............22
11266: Ruling on taking sinners as friends...................25
22154: How to serve Islam ...........................................28
40040: Her husband is threatening to divorce
her if she does not watch pornographic movies
with him ........................................................................31
27170: Is it permissible to offer money to a
person on the condition that he does a good deed?.......33
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39349: Mixing with the Tableeghi Jama’at
and going out with them................................................36
3007: A list of brief Islamic sayings for sending
to one’s friends..............................................................39
12913: Advice for daa’iyahs travelling abroad .............49
10219: Should we call people who do actions
of Shirk to Tawheed only?.............................................54
10261: With what should the daa’iyah start
calling people to Islam? ................................................55
10108: Is it permissible to go into churches for
the purpose of da’wah, or just to look around?.............56
10210: How can a woman engage in da’wah
outside the home?..........................................................57
3690: Ruling on not doing some mustahabb
deeds in order to open the hearts of the people
of bid’ah whom one is calling to Islam.........................57
Chapter 3.................................................................................60
Qualities of one who calls people to Islam........................60
8674: Jamaa’at al-Tableegh – pros and cons.................60
6913: The wife of a Daaiyah is complaining
because her husband is so busy.....................................64
37809: Advice for a trainee teacher...............................69
9431: Ruling on describing those who are
committed to the religion as fundamentalists
and extremists ...............................................................71
21730: Women and da’wah...........................................73
2023: Upon whom is it obligatory to call
to Allah?........................................................................74
3759: He is involved in Da’wah but feels that
he is a hypocrite and weak in faith................................75
Chapter 4.................................................................................79
Calling Muslims to Islam...................................................79
10505: Advice after Ramadaan.....................................79
47096: At whose hand should change be wrought
at a time when the situation of the Muslims
contradicts the greatness of their religion?....................89
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47013: He wants to call other employees to
pray but he is hesitant....................................................95
14296: Consequences for one who does not
adhere to Islam..............................................................99
44594: Advice to one who slanders his Muslim
brothers and accuses them without any proof.............110
41687: Going out for da’wah......................................113
34696: Can he take his mother to the market
when she is wearing a short abayah? ..........................116
20880: Is the story that the astronaut Neil
Armstrong became Muslim true?................................117
20746: A man giving Islamic tapes to a
non-mahram woman....................................................119
33827: She has become Muslim and is
asking how she should tell her parents........................120
34958: Ruling on participating in satellite
channels for the purpose of da’wah.............................121
20796: Attending a party given by
misguided groups with the intention of
offering sincere advice ................................................134
34563: Keep your duty to Allaah and fear
Him as much as you can..............................................136
9243: Did Shaykh Muhammad ibn
‘Abd al-Wahhaab rebel against the Ottoman
Caliphate and what was the reason for its fall?...........138
9380: How to deal with sinful families.......................145
26075: He drinks alcohol on the basis that
he is free to do whatever he wants ..............................149
21505: He wants some statistics on internet
filth in order to convince some of his friends .............152
11967: Difficulties encountered by a woman
who wears hijaab.........................................................154
10081: Changing an evil is something that
does concern a Muslim, it is not one of the
things that do not concern him....................................157
13484: A woman who feels shy to do da’wah.............165
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21918: She has friends who are openly
committing sin – should she continue to be
friends with them?.......................................................168
10372: Saving the Muslims from loyalty to
the west in their journalistic writings..........................170
11363: A woman who has been guided to
Islam fears for herself and is suffering from
waswaas (insinuating whispers of the Shaytaan)........172
21576: Slandering callers and reformers.....................175
13759: Muslims and how others perceive
them.............................................................................180
13848: A man is accompanying one of the
female daa’iyahs, claiming to do good deeds..............184
13682: What is it recommended for a sick
person to do when his illness is terminal?...................185
10490: Some of those who are called to
Allaah, when they are told to fear Allaah
they say “Mind your own business”............................186
20096: Advice for university students during
the summer break........................................................187
11404: Her sister is friends with a homosexual
man (we seek refuge with Allaah)...............................188
12110: Islamic unity....................................................191
11881: Finding out about the people who
visit shameful websites ...............................................194
10867: Who are the Wahhaabis and what is
their message?.............................................................195
10836: Ruling on plays and skits for the
purpose of da’wah.......................................................196
12203: Advice to those who do not recognize
the Salafi scholars and call them Wahhaabis ..............200
9403: How to make people aware of the world
around them through Friday khutbahs ........................202
5273: Which should come first – establishing
the khilaafah or teaching the religion?........................204
1973: Ruling on giving flowers to the sick.................206
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7418: Ruling on choosing specific times
for encouraging good attitudes....................................207
3263: Does having only a little knowledge
prevent one from reading to people from a
book in the mosque? ...................................................210
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