Family DAWAH

Asalaamu `alaikum,

Everyone please post your "family dawah" stories you've had since attending the Conquest class. They will help others learn from your experiences and then we can all improve how we give dawah. Remember, you can't give dawah to strangers if you can't even give dawah to your OWN FAMILY!!!

Asalaamu `alaikum,

Mostafa

Asalaamu `alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barkaatuhu,

I guess I'll start with one of my experiences this weekend doing FAMILY TIME/QUALITY TIME.

My grandmother (maternal) is here visiting from Egypt. So we were talking about how people in general may ask for a lot of advice, asking many different people, but ultimately, a lot of people aren't looking to implement even one bit of that advice. It's almost as if they are doing it to be entertained or to get sympathy from the people so they essentially aren't expected to do anything.

As soon as we talked about that, the whole section from the last day about SHOORA just kept flashing like a neon light in my head. So I started to explain to my grandmother -- Faatimah, like the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) daughter (may Allah be pleased with her) -- about how important shoora is. How the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) always sought the shoora of his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) -- even though logically, he would need it the least -- and how this showed how important shoora is in Islam. How all of the Khulafaa' had advisors around them at all times, and would even go out into the general community (to brothers and sisters of their ummah) for shoora -- but that the big difference in how they sought shoora and how the people of today seek shoora was that once they got all the advice they needed, they acted on that advice in one way or another. They didn't sit back and "wait for something to happen" .. they were men of action.

I've been having a lot more of these talks with my grandmother (and others) since the class. It's makes the time I have spent with her lately so much more meaningful than the usual "When are you getting married, Mostafa" conversations -- not that I don't enjoy those with my grandmother But to be able to speak with her on that level, and to see how much more she knows than I once thought ... I just know we both have come away stronger in our relationship with each other. May Allah continue to protect her and to guide her. And may He also allow her to see the day that I finally do get married Ameen

Asalaamu `alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barkaatuhu,

Mostafa Khalifa
Ameer Qabeelat Durbah

P.S. -- Now I wanna hear your stories And that's an order from the Ameer!

assalamu alaikum
i have a family dawah story..i was over my aunt's house, and my cousins were watching tv...(sponge bob square pants to be exact) and i have a strong hate for that show...so i told them i have and amazing story to tell them...at first only one of them, who is 6 years old, was interested...he came and sat with me while the other kids watched SPONGE BOB (YUCK) ...so i told him this is a true story about someone named abdullah ibn al zubayr..i started telling him about al-zubayr radee allahu anhu...and by the time i got ot abdullah (RAA) the tv was off and the rest of the kids were sitting around listening too!! alhamdulilah..they were sooooo excited that at dinner time, their cousins came over too and i overheard the 6 year old telling his other little cousins about ABDULLAH IBN AL ZUBAYR!! it was exciting alhamdulah...thats my story, eid mubarak, wassalamu alaikum

[Muhammad Alshareef]

Ma sha Allah, excellent thread.
These stories are my favorite to read because it's about how the knowledge affects others - which is the whole point of learning in the first place.

Asalaamu `alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhu,

Here is a CLEAR example of why I wanted you all to share your family dawah stories --

http://forums.almaghrib.org/showthread.php?t=422

As you can see by reading this thread, Sr. Sara's "Sponge Bob-Ibn Az-Zubayr" family dawah story has helped a sister overseas who was struggling to find a way to reach out to the youth in her area -- youth who preferred malls to masajid and lectures. So not only are you helping Durbah's dawah by posting your stories here .... you are helping our GLOBAL DAWAH efforts as well.

On the flip side, if you don't post your experiences, you're holding back from the ummah. You have no right to do such a thing. So i want to see some more action in this thread ASAP inshaa' Allah!!!