Patience
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Creator: Salman al-`Awdah
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Subject: dawah
Title: Patience
Created on: Wed Jan 09 15:31:25 -0500 2008
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Abstract: ... is witnessed in the hadeeth narrated by Bukhari, "There will come a time among people, when a person won't care about what he eats, whether it is haraam or halaal." That haraam, has settled in the nufuws [pi. of nafs] of many, as well as in their pockets, their establishments, and their wealth. Stead of (the daa'iya) making an attempt to forbid people from this, to look for the shariyya's proper alternatives for increase and develop wealth, the ones who have no certainty in religion come to him (the daa`iya) and try to tempt to reconsider some of the areas of what is clear ribaa'. This becomes the people's reality in a limited period of time, attempting to fix some of the shariyya rulings that have been firmly established through the centuries! This causes the nufuws of the duaat to loose patience, which in turn causes him to loose hope! A poet once said, "I indulge in hope, waiting in anticipation. How distressful a livelihood would be without the ampleness ode." If only the daai'ya would listen to that sincere advisor who said to his friend, "If you're not capable of accomplishing something, then leave it and move on to what you are capable of." You are not required to achieve victory for the Islamic reality, for it's realization depends upon the decree of Allah. You are required to do your utmost in His path only! And the Prophets and Messengers were addressed to do so, "...We have not sent you as a watcher over them, you are only to deliver..." (Shuuraa:48) and they [the Prophets] said, "Our Lord knows that we are surely messengers to you. And we are required not but to deliver clearly." (Ya Seen: 17) And some of the people may come to the daai'ya saying, "You're doing tremendous work, persisting day and night. But the end result is little and the people are abandoning you. Yet you see the reasons that devastation and destruction overwhelm the majority of them." This begins to ruin in an hour what the daai'ya builds in a year! As the Poet said, "What day will the building be completed, if while you are building it, another is demolishing it?" Such talk may influence many who are not used to steep roads. Here lies the role of patience. Being hasty in picking the fruit of dawa is not conformable to patience which must be a characteristic of the daai`ya. The daai'ya may be in a certain place, a school or institute, he is forbidding the forbidden, spreading the dawa and speaking to many people, but he won't notice the change himself because it is coming gradually. Just as the father does not notice the growth of his child whom he sees every morning and evening! He is growing gradually! How many duaat deserted a certain place thinking that he'd had no influence, but after he left, his absence became noticeable, and his influence then appeared, as was said, "My people will ... [Full Article...]
