I just recently been talking with one of our activist dakwah. He is currently the head of some big company and always giving motivational talk at schools, matrix and universities.
When we had the chance to sit and talk i was really eager to hear from him. He start to remind us the importance of having good relationship with Allah.Nowdays most tend to neglect these thing.. Those who was once involved in dakwah but then when lives becomes easy and all they want they can get in a wink of an eye, i mean when the world is spread infront of them , they ' forgot' to solat.
Involve in free sex, do anything prohibited in Islam as if they was and would never be a God in their lives.
I'ts really sad.
That's his first advice. Then i asked him on how to balance between reading dakwah books and profession books.
His answer is somehow quite interesting.
Whether or not to agree is anyone's choice.
He says that it's better you to focus on one, only one and not both at once. I mean dakwah and study. Simply to say that now i'm a medical student and that means i have to pay more attention to it.
( Not meaning i have to ran away from dakwah work)
It does not exclude anyone from doing dakwah.
Even if you excel in your study, your increasing mast knowledge would somehow bring you closer to the Creator. Then you would appreciate the Supreme, incredible power of Allah .
Doesn't that contribute a lot as a muslim. Imagine who are the first liners for the procedure of some complex surgery, or who is the most experienced doctor for treating women during labour.
Are we going to answer to Allah and to society that we are not that good at this job and then leave it to non muslim to conduct our responsibilities?
Then there are saying that we should not talk of unless of what is our specialty,.
A medical officer cannot talk on powerplant work because he is not knowledgable and not the best person to explain on it. But for dakwah it's a different thing, i mean all level of society can talk on it. But then you must not deprived yourself the responsibilities to learn those medical knowledge as that is your awla or priority.
Imagine that you doing dakwah at the same time as medical student. But then your achievement in study is stunted. Also your part time job as a dae is going nowhere..
Both are not excel, whether dakwah or study. Then is it just a waste . Why not do your very best at medic, try to know and increase in knowledge and one day you will get closer to Him.
Or do your best in dakwah and then you would achieve a lot more.
The main of his talk is not for us to leave dakwah nor saying that dakwah is preventing our success, but then we must look at our specialty and try to gain as much as possible benefit and experience in those field.
And also not to say that involving in dakwah is a failure job and only the responsibiliies of the Al Azhar graduate but more to emphasize the importance of being excel in your respective profession as these can guide you towrds understanding the creation , the creator.
It's good if you can do dakwah and then excel in your carrier.
Oh yes one more thing. He mentioned that we do all these dakwah is actually for our own good and not merely to call others into Islam. in surah as soff verses 12 says that what we should do to save ourselves from the hell fire is by believing in Allah and his prophet and strive in this path of Allah.
Conclusion
It's good if you can become a Muslim who is expert on many field of career.
It's also good if you gain knowledge and it brings you closer to the Creator at the same time mould you into becoming a good Muslim who obeys all Allah's order and leave that is disallowed.
It would be the best if you could excel in your study at the same time the same goes for dakwah.
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