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How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheists
Zara
03/26/01 at 11:58:36
[slm]

How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheist people which doubt the existence of Allah....Na auzobillah! La hawla wa la quwa ta illah billah...

[wlm]

Zara
Re: How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheists
nadeem
03/26/01 at 13:29:02
salaam alaykum.

Treat them like any kuffar.
Learn the arguments of proving the existnce of God.
Refute stone worshipping , in a most polite and intellectual manner.

more dawa materials :

www.beconvinced.com


aight?!

wassalaam

Re: How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheists
se7en
03/26/01 at 20:43:31

wa alaykum as salaam wa rahmatAllah,

I think your daawah should keep in mind the person's background and beliefs, so you can discuss the differences between them and Islam in a way that won't offend them or turn them off Islam.

The person who's giving daawah should also be *extremely* well versed in Islam, because otherwise having discussions and arguments with others might confuse them or cause them to doubt.  Being equipped with that 'ilm and solid eman is necessary protection.

Something that might be beneficial to check out for daawah to Hindus is Zakir Naik's
[url=http://www.jannah.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl/YaBB.pl?board=masjid&action=display&num=2195]"Most Commonly Asked Questions"[/url].  It actually has a section on common questions Hindus ask about Islam.

Hope that helps inshaAllah. :)

wasalaamu alaykum.
Re: How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheists
proudtobemuslim
03/28/01 at 05:03:50
Assalam-u-Alaikum,

A similar question arose during a question and answer session with Dr. Zakir Naik and the audience in the video Islam & Science Vol. II.

He said the first thing he would do is congratulat ethe stheist for already confirming half the Kalimah i.e. the La Ilaaha part of La Ilaaha Illa Allah.

Then he would explain what the Qur'an is to the Muslims and start quoting mirculous verses in the Book knowledge of which could not have been held my humans 1400 years ago such as the female mosquito being the one that bites, embryology, cosmology, chemistry and many other aspects (try www.it-is-truth.org).  After each amazing verse he would say that "Okay, maybe the writer got a good guess".

Then after mentioning many verses he would simply use the law of probability to state that it is completely unlikely mathematically that a human could have written this book and therefore it must have come from some being that is far above and more knowledgeable than man i.e. Allah.

Of course I strongly suggest you watche the video yourself... see if their office is near where you live at www.irf.net.  (I'm quite sure the video was Islam & Science II).

You can also add such things yourself such as the amazing fact that modern *scholarly* works on such stagnant things as law need to be revised and edited after a couple of years... and here we have the complete code of life for Muslims revealed 1400 years ago... not only is there not a single contradiction in the verses fo the Qur'an but there is also *nothing* like it before or after it was revealed.

May Allah (AWJ) forgive me for anything wrong I may have said and forbid me from repeating a mistake again.  All mistakes are mine, the benefit is from Him.

May Allah (AWJ) help you and grant you good.

Wassalam-u-Alaikum
Uzer
Re: How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheists
bhaloo
03/28/01 at 10:59:11
slm

I saw the video sometime back.  Someone had put the video up on the internet, but now I forgot where that website was. :(  I like Dr. Zakir Naik, alhumdullilah he is good at doing dawah.  He has an online course that you can sign up for to do dawah.
Re: How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheists
Yusuf
03/28/01 at 13:34:28
Perhaps show the Hindus this page?

[url]http://users.erols.com/zenithco/prophhs.html[/url]
where's the love
princess
03/28/01 at 14:04:34
[quote]I think your daawah should keep in mind the person's background and beliefs, so you can discuss the differences between them and Islam in a way that won't offend them or turn them off Islam.[/quote]

as'salaamualikum :)

i totally agree with that :) very nicely said :) i think if we treat em like they r less then us, and we're better then them, no 1 will get anything out of it :) treat them like humans..(i don't agree with the treating them like any kuffars comment :)) never argue :) always pray that Allah guide whomever u're working with :) that's all..inshAllah, that'll work :) all u can do is point em in the right direction, and inshAllah, the rest is Allah's neck of the woods :) later langur ;-D
Re: How does one give dawaah to hindus/atheists
momineqbal
03/28/01 at 14:06:55
[slm],

I have heard many lectures of Dr. Zakir Naik on cable TV in bombay. It is telecast every day between 10 to 11 am in the morning on many cable networks throughout bombay. Alhaumdulillah it is a wonderful means of Dawah being used. I wonder if it still is continuing. I used to live with hindu room mates and sometimes they used to watch the lectures too. And one day I had a long discussion with them on Islam and all the questions they asked were like the predictable ones, nothing new. But well I wasnt very successful in convincing them.

One problem I find with non-muslims, is that even after they have agreed on all that I have said, in the end their response is either, "all the religions are good and right" or "we should follow whatever religion suits us individually".
Maybe its an indication of some short coming on my part.

But anyways, one of the points Dr. Zakir Naik raises with hindu religious leaders is what is mentioned in some of their own Holy scriptures:

I can't quote the exact verse nos, but here is one of the things that is in their own Vedas:

Veda says there is only one God.

further the Veda says,

"Some one who worships natural things (e.g. sun, moon, stars etc. ) is into darkness, and someone who worships created (or manufactured) things (e.g. table, chair, bed, TV or whatever) is further more into darkness".

So there couldn't be a more unequivocal statement of monotheism from a hindu scripture.

Most hindus dont know about this.

Best thing to do with hindus I think is to anticipate their questions, and believe me there wont be anything extra that they can ask:

refer to the link that Sr Se7en put above on most common questions by Dr. Zakir Naik.

As for the atheist or  people who want to use Science to prove the existence of God etc. Br. Uzer has already mentioned some of the things he heard from Dr. Zakir Naik. But my personal opinion is doj't go into excesses with trying to map what Qur'an says to some of the scientific discoveries. I have seen some people quoting some verses of the Qur'an out of context in their over enthusiasm to prove a point to non-muslims.

Science is definitely not a muslim's yard stick for faith. As Dr. Zakir Naik says, Qur'an is a book fo S I G N S and S C I E N C E is a yardstick that we might have to use to prove some of the things to a person who might be in his arrogance insisting on wanting to get a scientific explanation for everything. Science many a times takes U turns in many of its finding, so the need to be cautious in using that as a yardstick for our own belief.

Anyways, some thoughts from my side.

Wassalam


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