Month of Dawah Giving Islamic Dawah to other people is very
important, especially during the month of Ramadan.
Dawah means, inviting people to Islam and encouraging people to follow Allah (swt)'s
law.
This is the best job in this entire world and that’s exactly the job that all of the
prophets did.
In Islam giving dawah is mandatory to all Muslims.
In Surah Nahl verse 125 Allah (swt) ordered us to invite the people to Islam in very good
way.
If you see our prophet Yunus (pbuh) story, you will see what happened when prophet Yunus
(pbuh) did not do his Dawah work properly.
Allah (swt) sent prophet Yunus, or in English known as Jonah (pbuh), to the big town of
Nineveh.
They were very bad who used to worship the idols and did not believe in Allah (swt).
The people did not like prophet advice.
They even argued that they were not afraid of Allah (swt).
Prophet Yunus (pbuh) became very sad and angry at them.
He lost his hope on those people.
He thought Allah (swt)'s punishment would come to those people in any time.
So without Allah (swt)'s permission, he left his people and abandoned his town of Nineveh,
which was where Allah (swt) appointed him to give Dawah to the people.
He hardly left the city when the skies began to change color and looked as if they were
on fire.
When the people saw that they started to fear the punishment was coming from Allah (swt)
to destroy them all.
Immediately they believed in Allah (swt).
Everybody in that town, adults and children gathered in the mountains and started to cry
to get mercy and forgiveness from their creator Allah (swt).
Allah (swt) accepted their request and forgave them.
When Allah (swt) removed the storm from them, they prayed for the return of prophet Yunus
(pbuh) to guide them.
But prophet Yunus (pbuh) was far away from the town at that point since he got in a small
passenger ship to cross the sea.
It sailed all day in calm waters with a good wind blowing at the sails.
When night came, the sea suddenly changed.
A horrible storm blew as if it were going to break the ship into pieces.
The waves were very big and wild.
They rose up as high as the mountains.
In the mean time Allah (swt) sent one of the biggest whales in the ocean, who was the right
behind the ship and kept his mouth open as he obeyed Allah (swt) to follow the ship.
They did not know what to do.
The chief crewman asked the others to lighten the ship's heavy load, so they threw their
baggage into the water but that was not enough for their safety.
At that time the non believers thought the sea and the wind were some of their gods.
So they decided to please their angry gods by throwing the people one by one into the
sea but that was very hard task for them to choose who they will throw out into the water
first.
So they drew a lottery among themselves.
Prophet Yunus (pbuh) name appeared three times.
Prophet Yunus (pbuh) realized that Allah (swt)'s hand was in all this because he did not take
permission from Allah (swt) to leave the Dawah work for his people.
When he realized the storm was because of him, he stood at the edge of the ship and
threw himself into the sea by the name of Allah (swt).
Immediately, he disappeared in a huge wave and the whale which was waiting for him swallowed
him into his stomach.
Inside the stomach he was scared of Allah (swt).
He was very sorry for his mistake since he did not do his Dawah work properly.
He prostrated to Allah (swt) in the belly of the whale and recited the very powerful
dua for his pardon.
And finally Allah (swt) forgave him and sent him back to his people to continue his Dawah
work.
The same way we should always think to give Islamic Dawah to the people, so they can follow
Allah (swt)'s order.
In Dawah work we have to be very sincere and truthful.
To give dawah we also need a really good knowledge about Islam.
In Dawah work we have to be very gentle and we can't be rude.
Even, when Allah(T) sent prophet Moses and Aaron (pbut) to the Pharaoh, Allah (T) advised
them to be gentle with the Pharaoh.
For Dawah work we have to have to use good manners and keep our patience.
For the Dawah work we have to follow this rule.
Suppose when our prophet Muhammad (s) sent some Sahabas to Yemen, he advised them, first
give dawah about the one and only God and accept Mohammad (s) as a prophet.
If they accepted this then advise them to pray five times a day.
In Ramadan every Muslim has to give Dawah to the people and get lots of reward from
Allah (swt).
For more informaiton we can see Surah: Surah al-Bayyinah: 5
Surah Al-Baqarah: 44 Surah 'Ali-Imran: 159
Sahih Bhukhari Sahih Muslim