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Muslim Treasure - On the Virtue of Calling to God | Episode (5) | The fruits of advocacy are great for the individual and society
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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.