In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
We are pleased at the Sheikh Hasa Islamic Center
to present to our esteemed listeners
a reading of the book
*The Treasure of the Muslim*
on the merits of calling to Allah,
by its author, John Yar Bamarni.
The fruits of calling to Allah for the individual, the family, and society are immense.
Among them
is the realization of the purpose for which Allah created mankind.
The purpose for which Allah created the creation
is to worship Him alone, with no partner.
Allah the Exalted says:
﴾And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.﴿
Worship
is a comprehensive term for everything that Allah loves and is pleased with,
whether it be outward or inward words and deeds.
In the call to Allah, there is clarification and explanation of this worship,
an exhortation for people to adhere to it and abandon what contradicts it,
and a declaration of the great rewards resulting from performing this worship.
This is the greatest objective of the call to Allah.
The emergence of generations of faith.
Among the fruits of the call to Allah
is that you halt the lineage and generations of disbelief.
For before a person embraces Islam,
he was a disbeliever, the son of a disbeliever, the son of a disbeliever,
going back thousands of years.
Then you come and change the situation
through your call to this person to Islam,
and the lineage changes for all the years to come.
The next generation becomes
a Muslim, the son of a Muslim, the son of a Muslim.
Allah is the Greatest.
What honor is greater than this?
To halt the generations of disbelief
to begin generations of faith in His oneness
and the worship of Him alone.
Increasing the Ummah of Muhammad.
Among its fruits also
is increasing the Ummah of Muhammad,
which is the fulfillment of what the Prophet (peace be upon him) hoped for,
which is to have the most followers among the prophets,
as he said:
"I hope that I will have the most followers among them on the Day of Resurrection."
Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Indeed, the conversion of one person at your hands
means millions of people,
for the deeds of his children, and his children's children,
and those who embrace Islam at their hands until the Day of Resurrection
are in the scale of your good deeds.
If you calculate that this new convert has two or three children,
and their children likewise,
it means that every twenty years
the number will double.
And after one hundred years,
the number will have doubled a thousand times.
Reflect.
Suppose one hundred years have passed,
the number is one thousand Muslims.
500 people remain from them,
and the rest died during the hundred years.
We take the five hundred,
and we multiply them by a thousand.
After another hundred years,
the number is 500,000 people.
After two hundred years,
after another hundred years,
meaning 300 years from today,
we take half the number of the second hundred,
which is 250,000,
and we multiply them by a thousand.
The result is
250 million people.
And what if we calculated the fourth and fifth centuries?
And so on.
It is not necessary to say millions;
even one million is enough.
This is if no one else embraces Islam at the hands of this man.
But if one person embraces Islam at his hands,
we calculate the same calculation for the new convert.
So what if ten people are guided at his hands?
Or a hundred?
Or a thousand?
This is all if one person embraces Islam at your hands or because of you.
What if one person embraces Islam at your hands every day?
There is a caller to Allah at whose hands seven thousand people embraced Islam.
And the reason for this caller's own conversion
was an elderly man in Riyadh
who gave him a book.
I know a person at whose hands a priest in Africa was guided,
and then more than a million people embraced Islam at the hands of that priest.
Remember that the conversion of one person
does not mean he is just one;
rather, it means millions, by the permission of Allah.
For these millions,
if they glorify Allah or give charity,
you have the like of their rewards,
without their rewards being diminished in the slightest.
And every step these millions take to the mosque,
you have the like of its reward.
If they perform Hajj or fast,
or strive in the way of Allah or call others to Him,
or help others,
you have the like of their reward.
If they learn and teach,
and raise children, write books, or establish endowments,
you have the exact like of it.
The point is that every deed, whether
it is verbal, physical, or of the heart,
you have the like of its reward.
If Allah bestows His favor upon you and a person embraces Islam at your hands,
then the deeds of his children and his descendants
until the Day of Resurrection are in the scales of your good deeds.
By a simple calculation,
their number doubles after three hundred years
to millions of human beings
whom you were the cause of guiding to Islam.
Reflect.
If you were not the cause of that one person's conversion,
you would lose all those numbers,
which could reach a million or more.
Is there any loss greater than this loss?
Building role models.
Among the fruits of the call to Allah
is establishing a society in which
the qualities of idealism and role modeling are embodied as much as possible,
just as it happened for the first generation
in the era of the Prophet (peace be upon him).
That era
is the role model for every era after it
until the Hour is established.
The people in it were brothers, harmonious,
cooperating in righteousness and piety,
upholding the laws of Islam,
characterized by its morals,
advising one another, and compassionate.
As the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
"The likeness of the believers in their mutual love, mercy, and compassion
is like the body;
if one part of it complains,
the rest of the body joins it in staying awake and suffering from fever."
Calling to Allah increases faith.
It is known in the school of the *Ahl al-Sunnah*
that faith increases and decreases;
it increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience.
It has been mentioned in *Sahih Muslim*,
in the chapter on the prohibition of evil being part of faith,
that faith increases and decreases,
and that enjoining good and forbidding evil are obligatory.
Then he narrated after it the hadith of Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him),
from the Prophet (peace be upon him) that he said:
"Every morning, charity is due from every joint of yours."
Every glorification of Allah (*tasbih*) is charity,
every praise of Allah (*tahmid*) is charity,
every declaration of His oneness (*tahlil*) is charity,
every declaration of His greatness (*takbir*) is charity,
enjoining good is charity,
and forbidding evil is charity.
And two *rak'ahs* performed at *Duha* (mid-morning) suffice for all of that.
Life for the hearts.
In the call to Allah is the life of the hearts.
In it is stimulation for the lethargic,
a reminder for the heedless,
and an increase in the faith of the believers.
In it is the suppression of the people of desires and falsehood,
and delight for the workers.
Its fatigue is a pleasure for those for whom the call to Allah has become the air they breathe.
Its sweat is not like any other sweat.
We all break into a sweat when we head to work on the roads,
while practicing sports and activities,
or when we ride animals and transport,
or cook food and grilled dishes.
But there is a vast difference between one sweat and another,
and one fatigue and another.
The greatest of that is the sweat that pours down
while you stand in the way of Allah for hours
to distribute pamphlets to tourists,
or carry boxes of booklets,
or become exhausted and fall ill in the jungles of Africa
to become a cause for the guidance of thousands,
or even millions.
By my life, there is no fatigue or sweat
more honorable or beautiful than this.
Steadfastness for the truth.
In performing the call to Allah the Exalted,
and continuing it in all aspects
and in all circumstances,
there is steadfastness for the truth,
a repulsion of falsehood,
a support for the religion,
and the preservation of the victorious group
promised with emergence and victory
over everyone who opposes the true religion,
the people of innovation, sects, and those of desires and doubts,
in every time and place.
As the Prophet (peace be upon him) said
in the agreed-upon hadith:
"A group of my Ummah will continue to be manifest upon the truth;
Those who abandon them will not harm them.
They will remain in that state until the command of Allah comes to pass.
It involves securing benefits and warding off harms.
In the context of Da'wah, it involves securing and increasing benefits.
And warding off and minimizing harms in societies as much as possible.
For it halts corruption and vice.
As well as narcotics and injustice.
It spreads virtue, security, safety, and reform.
It halts proselytization, deviation, and atheism.
As well as superstitions and polytheism.
And it spreads the message of Tawhid.
Many thinkers acknowledge.
And many Western media outlets and research centers.
That Islam is the primary religion.
And the most rapidly spreading in the world.
It solves problems within society.
Including the resolution of issues related to communities.
Intellectually and socially.
As well as morally and behaviorally.
The persistence of which is among the causes of destruction and ruin.
For if a human being follows his own intellect and desires.
And isolates himself from divine revelation.
Then he is inevitably doomed.
Da'wah is a clarification of the path of salvation for all of humanity.
The religion of Allah is the guide to every good.
It is the effective cure for all human ailments.
Intellectual, behavioral, and otherwise.