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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

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We are pleased at the Sheikh Hasa Islamic Center

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to present to our esteemed listeners

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a reading of the book

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*The Treasure of the Muslim*

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on the merits of calling to Allah,

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by its author, John Yar Bamarni.

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The fruits of calling to Allah for the individual, the family, and society are immense.

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Among them

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is the realization of the purpose for which Allah created mankind.

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The purpose for which Allah created the creation

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is to worship Him alone, with no partner.

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Allah the Exalted says:

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﴾And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.﴿

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Worship

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is a comprehensive term for everything that Allah loves and is pleased with,

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whether it be outward or inward words and deeds.

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In the call to Allah, there is clarification and explanation of this worship,

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an exhortation for people to adhere to it and abandon what contradicts it,

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and a declaration of the great rewards resulting from performing this worship.

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This is the greatest objective of the call to Allah.

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The emergence of generations of faith.

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Among the fruits of the call to Allah

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is that you halt the lineage and generations of disbelief.

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For before a person embraces Islam,

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he was a disbeliever, the son of a disbeliever, the son of a disbeliever,

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going back thousands of years.

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Then you come and change the situation

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through your call to this person to Islam,

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and the lineage changes for all the years to come.

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The next generation becomes

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a Muslim, the son of a Muslim, the son of a Muslim.

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Allah is the Greatest.

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What honor is greater than this?

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To halt the generations of disbelief

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to begin generations of faith in His oneness

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and the worship of Him alone.

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Increasing the Ummah of Muhammad.

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Among its fruits also

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is increasing the Ummah of Muhammad,

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which is the fulfillment of what the Prophet (peace be upon him) hoped for,

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which is to have the most followers among the prophets,

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as he said:

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"I hope that I will have the most followers among them on the Day of Resurrection."

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Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.

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Indeed, the conversion of one person at your hands

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means millions of people,

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for the deeds of his children, and his children's children,

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and those who embrace Islam at their hands until the Day of Resurrection

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are in the scale of your good deeds.

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If you calculate that this new convert has two or three children,

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and their children likewise,

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it means that every twenty years

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the number will double.

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And after one hundred years,

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the number will have doubled a thousand times.

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Reflect.

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Suppose one hundred years have passed,

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the number is one thousand Muslims.

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500 people remain from them,

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and the rest died during the hundred years.

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We take the five hundred,

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and we multiply them by a thousand.

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After another hundred years,

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the number is 500,000 people.

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After two hundred years,

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after another hundred years,

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meaning 300 years from today,

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we take half the number of the second hundred,

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which is 250,000,

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and we multiply them by a thousand.

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The result is

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250 million people.

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And what if we calculated the fourth and fifth centuries?

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And so on.

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It is not necessary to say millions;

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even one million is enough.

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This is if no one else embraces Islam at the hands of this man.

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But if one person embraces Islam at his hands,

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we calculate the same calculation for the new convert.

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So what if ten people are guided at his hands?

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Or a hundred?

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Or a thousand?

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This is all if one person embraces Islam at your hands or because of you.

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What if one person embraces Islam at your hands every day?

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There is a caller to Allah at whose hands seven thousand people embraced Islam.

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And the reason for this caller's own conversion

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was an elderly man in Riyadh

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who gave him a book.

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I know a person at whose hands a priest in Africa was guided,

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and then more than a million people embraced Islam at the hands of that priest.

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Remember that the conversion of one person

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does not mean he is just one;

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rather, it means millions, by the permission of Allah.

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For these millions,

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if they glorify Allah or give charity,

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you have the like of their rewards,

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without their rewards being diminished in the slightest.

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And every step these millions take to the mosque,

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you have the like of its reward.

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If they perform Hajj or fast,

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or strive in the way of Allah or call others to Him,

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or help others,

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you have the like of their reward.

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If they learn and teach,

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and raise children, write books, or establish endowments,

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you have the exact like of it.

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The point is that every deed, whether

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it is verbal, physical, or of the heart,

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you have the like of its reward.

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If Allah bestows His favor upon you and a person embraces Islam at your hands,

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then the deeds of his children and his descendants

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until the Day of Resurrection are in the scales of your good deeds.

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By a simple calculation,

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their number doubles after three hundred years

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to millions of human beings

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whom you were the cause of guiding to Islam.

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Reflect.

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If you were not the cause of that one person's conversion,

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you would lose all those numbers,

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which could reach a million or more.

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Is there any loss greater than this loss?

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Building role models.

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Among the fruits of the call to Allah

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is establishing a society in which

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the qualities of idealism and role modeling are embodied as much as possible,

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just as it happened for the first generation

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in the era of the Prophet (peace be upon him).

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That era

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is the role model for every era after it

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until the Hour is established.

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The people in it were brothers, harmonious,

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cooperating in righteousness and piety,

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upholding the laws of Islam,

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characterized by its morals,

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advising one another, and compassionate.

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As the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:

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"The likeness of the believers in their mutual love, mercy, and compassion

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is like the body;

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if one part of it complains,

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the rest of the body joins it in staying awake and suffering from fever."

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Calling to Allah increases faith.

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It is known in the school of the *Ahl al-Sunnah*

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that faith increases and decreases;

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it increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience.

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It has been mentioned in *Sahih Muslim*,

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in the chapter on the prohibition of evil being part of faith,

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that faith increases and decreases,

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and that enjoining good and forbidding evil are obligatory.

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Then he narrated after it the hadith of Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him),

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from the Prophet (peace be upon him) that he said:

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"Every morning, charity is due from every joint of yours."

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Every glorification of Allah (*tasbih*) is charity,

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every praise of Allah (*tahmid*) is charity,

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every declaration of His oneness (*tahlil*) is charity,

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every declaration of His greatness (*takbir*) is charity,

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enjoining good is charity,

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and forbidding evil is charity.

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And two *rak'ahs* performed at *Duha* (mid-morning) suffice for all of that.

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Life for the hearts.

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In the call to Allah is the life of the hearts.

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In it is stimulation for the lethargic,

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a reminder for the heedless,

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and an increase in the faith of the believers.

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In it is the suppression of the people of desires and falsehood,

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and delight for the workers.

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Its fatigue is a pleasure for those for whom the call to Allah has become the air they breathe.

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Its sweat is not like any other sweat.

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We all break into a sweat when we head to work on the roads,

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while practicing sports and activities,

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or when we ride animals and transport,

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or cook food and grilled dishes.

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But there is a vast difference between one sweat and another,

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and one fatigue and another.

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The greatest of that is the sweat that pours down

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while you stand in the way of Allah for hours

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to distribute pamphlets to tourists,

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or carry boxes of booklets,

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or become exhausted and fall ill in the jungles of Africa

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to become a cause for the guidance of thousands,

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or even millions.

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By my life, there is no fatigue or sweat

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more honorable or beautiful than this.

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Steadfastness for the truth.

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In performing the call to Allah the Exalted,

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and continuing it in all aspects

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and in all circumstances,

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there is steadfastness for the truth,

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a repulsion of falsehood,

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a support for the religion,

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and the preservation of the victorious group

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promised with emergence and victory

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over everyone who opposes the true religion,

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the people of innovation, sects, and those of desires and doubts,

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in every time and place.

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As the Prophet (peace be upon him) said

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in the agreed-upon hadith:

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"A group of my Ummah will continue to be manifest upon the truth;

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Those who abandon them will not harm them.

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They will remain in that state until the command of Allah comes to pass.

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It involves securing benefits and warding off harms.

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In the context of Da'wah, it involves securing and increasing benefits.

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And warding off and minimizing harms in societies as much as possible.

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For it halts corruption and vice.

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As well as narcotics and injustice.

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It spreads virtue, security, safety, and reform.

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It halts proselytization, deviation, and atheism.

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As well as superstitions and polytheism.

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And it spreads the message of Tawhid.

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Many thinkers acknowledge.

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And many Western media outlets and research centers.

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That Islam is the primary religion.

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And the most rapidly spreading in the world.

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It solves problems within society.

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Including the resolution of issues related to communities.

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Intellectually and socially.

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As well as morally and behaviorally.

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The persistence of which is among the causes of destruction and ruin.

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For if a human being follows his own intellect and desires.

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And isolates himself from divine revelation.

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Then he is inevitably doomed.

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Da'wah is a clarification of the path of salvation for all of humanity.

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The religion of Allah is the guide to every good.

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It is the effective cure for all human ailments.

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Intellectual, behavioral, and otherwise.