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Rerouting our dawah in a way which resonates with most people
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When we approach the average person, some of us (and I have been guilty of this) often adopt the debate approach, where we challenge the other person's world view after asking them what they believe in and attempt to show them how they are incorrect, so much...
that the other person ends up going back and forth and the overall message and intent of dawah work just fizzles out. While this approach is good with intellectuals and other people who are in the "field" of debating, this approach is often useless with the vast majority of...
people.
Human beings are generally not logical creatures. The mind will always like what resonates with it easily, and will be repulsed by frequent argumentation, as this is simply not the "natural state" of the mind.
Human beings are generally not logical creatures. The mind will always like what resonates with it easily, and will be repulsed by frequent argumentation, as this is simply not the "natural state" of the mind.
We need to do dawah in a way which speaks to the hearts of the people and send a message that they feel, which resonates more since Allah SWT has already created our predisposed nature to want to believe in a higher power, or spirituality.
all that needs to be done is this hunger needs to be fed with a message which already resonates. The other noticeable aspect is that when we debate the other person, the other person is often in a "fight or flight" mode in an intellectual sense. Meaning, they are far....
too caught up in defending their own argument rather than actually listen to the message being given from the person giving the invitation to Islam. One of the ways that the Qur'an approaches to inviting the masses to Islam is by forcing their minds to self contemplation.
We often find verses such as Do they not contemplate within themselves? Allah has not created the heavens and the earth and what is between them except in truth and for a specified term. And indeed, many of the people, in [the matter of] the meeting with their Lord, ...
are disbelievers. This questioning of asking people the question, such as the example above, makes people contemplate. This isn't to say we do not need to be equipped with arguments as it's often also part of human nature to be skeptical and ask questions. However, ...
Most people dislike critical argumentation from the get go.
