Assalamualaikum to all fellow Muslim readers. Peace be to the rest.
I have been in the Islamic information services since 1990. I have met thousands of good people from the West who came seeking the truth about Islam at our Islamic centre at the Kapitan Keling Mosque in the city of Georgetown, Penang, which is my home state. In Islam, we do not compel anyone to come into the faith. You can lead a horse to the water but you can’t force it to drink ! A classic proverb that explains it all so perfectly.
I used to have the Christian visitors sit with me and my friends in the marbled walkways of the mosque’s inner sections. We used to answer their numerous questions about Islam. What the principles of Islam are and why Islam makes sense. Some of those visitors had actually been on a soul-searching trip to our mosque for which they had been saving up for some time. Word of mouth by those who had benefitted from our information services at IPCI (Malaysia) gets around and these people really meant to come seek the truth for what it is.
Many a time we came across individuals who, after being with us for a couple of days, studying, researching and asking countless questions, eventually come to embrace Islam and Alhamdulillah, some took the Shahadah from me and my friends. Eventually, these new Muslim brothers and sisters from the USA, Britain, Australia, Canada, etc., return home to their countries and passed on the message.
I have had people ask for us by name and they spend time with us in the mosque, learning about their birthright to be Muslims and being smart and intelligent, they end up taking Shahadah with us and in turn, go out to preach the truth about Islam, Allah’s Code of Life for all of mankind.
Today, we see Muslims being propositioned by Christian evangelical groups and missionaries relentlessly with a zeal that astounds us. Day by day, they seek out the weak, the poor, the sick, the destitutes amongst the Muslims of Asia and work their way in. Many of these missionaries work under guise of charities and relief effort workers.
By doing a bit of research, what do I find ? Countless projects by the Christian Global Missionaries out with a purpose…to convert the Muslims to their creed.
Among those which I found are these :
- Caleb Project : Malaysia & Singapore
- John Mark Ministries : Pray for Christians in Malaysia
- Prayer Profile : The Malay of Malaysia
They even have a 30-Day Study of Ramadan and its special meaning to us Muslims. Their missionaries are encouraged to study the facts and figures of Islamic teachings yet use this knowledge to sow seeds of doubts and draw the weak and meek amongst the Muslims to “Believe in Jesus as the Lord Almighty”. Na’uzu billahi min zaalik !
It boggles the mind to see the extent to which these evangelists are going all out to rope in the poor, the feeble and the weak of faith amongst the Muslims. The Muslims of the world need to wake up to this strategy of the kuffar and put their affairs right. Maybe the wandering Jamaat Tablighs of the world who waste their precious time “worrying” about Islam should come to their senses and instead of haranguing the Muslims, go after these missionaries. That would be a sight to see ! A friend of mine by the name of Mirza aptly referred to the Jamaat as “Tablighones”.
The Prophet Muhammad left us a clear and complete message. A way of life enjoined by Allah ta’ala. Now comes this group, innovating a system that is entirely thought up by a Maulana Ilyas and a Maulana Zakariya from Deoband, India, going out on a 3 days, 40 days, 4 months “da’awah walkabout” especially to the IPB countries !
When I come to think about the hadith of Rasulullah SAW about the Ummah dividing themselves into 73 sects and movements whereby 72 of these wayward sects will be in the Hellfire and only the one Ahlul Sunnah Wal Jamaah will be saved, I think of this and the numerous other groups cropping up amongst us, each claiming to be The Chosen Ones.
May Allah SWT guide us all. Ameen.
Guys, give me a break. Do not condemn other religion. Both Christian and Islam come from the same root, so why fight amongst us ? If the Christians believe in Jesus, so be it. If the Muslims believe in Islam teaching, so be it. If you are talking about numbers of peoples convert into Islam, then how about numbers of Muslims convert into Islam by their free will ? The choices if up to the individuals. C’mon, believe in what you believe in and STOP comparing and condemning other religions. I’m a Christian and I believe in Jesus. That’s matter for me. I believe in Jesus because He’s the Way, the Truth and the Life. I know for Muslims Jesus is just a Prophet. So what ?
Assalamualaikum,
“Invite (mankind, O Muhammad SAW) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islâm) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur’ân) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.”
As for you quoting the above ayah of the Qur’an and writting a lot of hater crap, shows you need to read the ayah carefully.
Regarding the Tabligi Jamaat, I am sure if you used your eyes and tried to use your brain with it you might have noticed how many people around the world have change because of its work. You so-called Salafi’s would and continue to jump up and down, ready for an arguement, should chill out and analayze.
It started as a revival for Muslims “O Muslims, become Muslims”. You might know that just by calling yourself a Muslim and going Shirk does not make a person a Muslim. Most of my village upto the ‘70’s did some sort of shirk until the Jamaat came. No one would let them in the Masjid’s. They had to do Salat in someones guesthouse. Now most of the village has stopped wrong practises and all the Masjid’s allow them in. There are many such cases international, even where whole villages and towns have become Murtad and because of the works of Tabilghi Jamaat the people have become Muslims. Yes a lot of times they (as Tabilghi Jamaat) do not talk to people who call themselves non-Muslims but individually people who join with the works of the Jamaat do talk to non-Muslims. I personally know of 5 people (from the top of my head) in my area who have become Muslims through people who are link to the Jamaat. 2 whites (former Christians), 1 Indian (former Sikh), 1 Zimbabwean (former Christian), 1 Congolese (former Christian and member of the opposition in former Zaïre!). So it is more a wake up for Muslims and people who call themselves Muslims, a “handspan”, a first step, so they can move on and implement Islam fully in there lives.
Personally I did not like the way they did there dawah at one time, because I thought I knew better. That was until, a person who was returning from Raiwand (where there is the second largest gathering of Muslims in the world every year) near Lahore said to a conductor of a Toyota Hiace.…(you must know the line)…we have read the Kalima.…now you read it…why is he asking Muslim I thought (I was very critical of the Jamaat as I was a Ghair Muqallid)…anyhow to my shock and amazement, the conductor who lived in the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan” did not know it!!! So we had to teach him all the way to Lahore, he just about got it when we jumped off near the Badshahi Masjid in Lahore. So this is my experience with the Jamaat. It is positive. But you do get people talking rubbish sometimes. By the way it now international, jamaats come out of Makkah and Madina and my friend told me when he was in Palestine in Masjidul Aqsa they where doing bayans there.
“O Muslims, become Muslims”
Dear Santana Kamarudin,
A careful reading of Deutoronomy 18:18 will tell you that the new prophet that will be raised among the Israelites is not Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The context of that chapter is that Moses shall not be granted the permission to enter the promised land, Canaan ; and God will raise another leader to lead them into the promised land. In verse 15, Moses said, ” The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me among you, from your brothers…” indicates that the leader chosen is among them (an Israelite) in this case. As for Isaiah 29:12, it does not speak anything about a prophet but of the stubborness of the Israelites, and therefore disposed to exile.
I believe there is more room for discussion on this.
Wa’alaikumsalam UK_Brother,
Does stating the truth of deviance constitute slandering the Tablighis ? I don’t think so. I do not plan to engage in a useless debate with you whom I can guess to be one of them.
The Ulama’s expose the deviant practices of the Jama’at Tabligh. You want to label them and me as Salafis ? Go ahead, it makes no difference to me.
I write as I do about the Tabligh because I know for sure what they do ! They only go disturb the Muslims who are already observing the obligations of Islam. They skip the homes of the Non Muslims and do not do anything to stop maksiat that takes place before their very eyes !
What does that say about them ? They are deviants and useless fools who go around misquoting hadiths and come up with false ones to justify their deviance !
I don’t give a rat’s ass about your trying to speak up for those who clearly are misguiding ignorants and jahils into following a deviant group that only weakens and takes advantage of those who are naïve about the true obligations of a Muslim !
“Invite (mankind, O Muhammad SAW) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islâm) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur’ân) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.”
Al-Qur’an Surah An Nahl Verse 125.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala Commands us Muslims through Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam’s example to ‘Invite All Mankind to Ad Deenul Islam’ with Wisdom and Beautiful Preaching and to discuss, debate or argue with them the Non Muslims in Ways that are Best and Most Gracious !
Allah SWT does not tell us Muslims to go preach just to Fellow Muslims, does He ?
I mean, hello…if Rasul SAW had done just that, to talk to people who were within his circle and reach, you and me would not be Muslims here, debating about a deviant jamaat !
I have personally taken the Jamaat Tabligh who come knocking on my door as to why they skipped visiting my neighbours who are Chinese Buddhists, Christians and Taoists,Indian Hindus, etc ?
Their reply ? They aren’t Muslims ! Well, if they do not go share the Truth about Islam and teach them, the Non Muslims, won’t they be shirking the true responsiblities that Allah SWT has Commanded those of us who call ourselves as Da’ee’s and carrying out the works of Tabligh in the real sense of the word ?
I have asked the Jama’at Tabligh to join me in combating maksiat that was taking place before us in my neighbourhood but have always got cock and bull answers in them saying that they hve better things to do than to go confront the maksiat perpetrators !
Talk about being hypocrites !
Rasul SAW has in one of his authentic hadiths commanded us : ” Whomsoever amongst you (Muslims) sees an injustice take place before you to stop it with your hands (power/authority/capabilities); failing which you must speak out against it (go tell them off/advice/warn/confront/write about it/expose/etc); failing which to hate it in your hearts which is a sign of those weakest in their Iman and close to Kufr!”
Now, is the Tabligh really practicing what Allah SWT and Rasul SAW has asked us Muslims to do ?
Think and do your own research about whether the Tabligh Jama’at are right or wrong !
I will keep exposing their deviance as long as I live, Insya Allah ! Wabillahi Taufeek Wal hidayah !
Wassalamualaikum.
Salaam Alaikum brother,
Before slandering Muslims which is a big sin in itself, please do your research into the Tablighi Jamaat and Deoband from a non-biased neutral source, the website you provided is an Indian Ahle Hadith/psuedo Salafi site which IS biased,
Deoband University was established over 100 years ago and follows the Hanafi Madhab of the Ahle-Sunnah-Wal-Jamaat which as you know is one of the four groups of the main body of sunni orthodox Islam, this is also confirmed by Al-Azhar University and the majority of Saudi Scholars, your quote “Now comes this group, innovating a system that is entirely thought up by a Maulana Ilyas and a Maulana Zakariya from Deoband, India, going out on a 3 days, 40 days, 4 months “da’awah walkabout” especially to the IPB countries!1 There is a whole website dedicated to the uncovering of these wayward group’s activities here. Read and study for yourselves about this group’s shenanigans.” Is totally wrong although they do go on these “da’awah walkabout” as you put it they haven’t introduced it as part of Islam so it’s not an innovation if it’s not Islam!!
It’s funny how you are worried by the Christian Missionary onslaught against the weak Muslims in your country then you ridicule this group who are the only group who are preaching to the weak non-practicing Muslims of the world and making them strong Muslims by teaching them the deen, so can I ask what was your point in ridiculing the Tablighi Jamaat ?
PLs don’t link Christianity to Anglo Saxon domination it would be the equivalent of linking all Muslims to terrorism. Islam also had its fair share of empires & alll these mpires were conquered from non muslim lands.YOu guys go in into they are lands and force them to convert.Not necessarily by sword but by psychological means.Forcing them to pay jizyah,forbiding them from worshiping publicly,forbidong them from mourning they ‘re dead in public,not allowing them to construct new temples of worship,not even renovating htye are places of worship unless necessary(who are u to allow or disallow thi?),not taking they are statements in sharia courts simply because they are non-Muslims ! ypu say that you are religion of peace but in places which you conquered you destroy temples and build mosques on the(Bbabri mosque).YOu convert CHurches into mosques(Hagia Sophia).I have seen writings by an author named Hamka that seem to justify these actions. These psychological warfare done MUslim govts are being done by some ppl here too. SOme zealots tell MUslims not to wish nonmuslims during their celebrations,local councils demolish temples, delay approvals for Temple and Churhes for even 25 years !http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/10/15/nation/15733957&sec=nation. So that they can cosntantly tell nonmuslims that they r 2nd class citizens unless they are muslims. You ppl say “We ought to call what is falsehood as falsehood, and preach the Truth of Islam to everybody”. Yet u say that ur religion preaches justice and fairness. If your religion is about fairness then everyone can preach his religion to you as much you can to us ! YOu use converts to your religion to launch an aasault on our religion by printinfg they are testimonials about Islam and theier views about their former religion. HOw disguting it is to here from a former HIndu or a Christian tell bad things abot his old religion.Yet htis is done by our own GOvt tv every Ramadan.YOu religious leadres can tell bad things about our religions in GOvt publications such as Dewan Masyarakt, yet no actions from govt under Publishing & PRinting presses act or the SEditions act.LOok wat happened to Sarawak Tribune after one accident. MUslimin said “Jews and Christians will not stop harassing you until you follow their straying path”, who is doing the harrasing ? Abu Al-Ala Al-Mawdudi’s View : Discrimination is Necessary !
In his book, “Rights of Non-Muslims in Islamic States” which has been translated into many languages, this great scholar asserts that we should distinguish between the rights of non-Muslims and the rights of Muslims. On pp. 2 – 3, Abu Ala al-Mawdudi says :
“An Islamic state … is by its very nature bound to distinguish between Muslims and non-Muslims, and, in an honest and upright manner, not only publicly declares this state of affairs but also precisely states what rights will be conferred upon its non-Muslim citizens and which of them will not be enjoyed by them.”
When you ppl look at history and say Christaians spread they are religion by brute force through conquest. yet you fail to understand that THe MUghal,ottoman,are all colonisers.they came from the outside to impose” an alien concept ” on them by seting one law for MUSlims another for others and u ppl shout at the top of the lungs that terrorism is the response to discrimination by non muslims.This country has one law for non-Muslims and another for NON muslims, THis isvery unfair SAntana kamaruddin!THat’s why non muslims have to reject these laws.Will you reject laws that clearly discriminate u because of ur religion ? You will probably go on a jihad. Many ppl say that jihad is response to discrimination and cruelty.I think that your doing the same to.….. evangelise your religion.THose in glass houses should not thrhow stone at otheres.You were also colonisers and force converters to your religions.
this is racism
Islam is not just a religion, it is a complete way of life. From the moment you wake in the morning to the moment you go to sleep at night, all affairs of a practising Muslim are reflected by this. This is the what the non-Muslims have a problem in understanding. Religion is not between an individual and his ‘God’; Secularism in Islam is an alien concept which the West wants the Muslim nations to embrace, alongside the concepts of democracy etc. and this is simply impossible.
As far as the Christians are concerned, Allah SWT has described them as being the closet in love to the Muslims, because amongst them, there are people of learning and justice who do not hold any ill-feelings towards the Muslims. Likewise, the principle of ‘no complusion’ in religion stands firm for all to see. The ideological and the theological differences between us Muslims and the Christians will continue to be debated and discussed.
Islam remains the fastest growing religion in the world because of it’s logical and factual basis by which many embrace Islam. The author of the following book ( http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/muslim/library/jesus-say/contents.html ) has done an extensive job in highlighting the huge gaps that exist between us and through this book, many Christians have seen the error of their ways, with all due respect.
One has to only look at the manner in which Christianity was introduced into S.E Asia, unlike Islam that was mainly brought through Arab and South Asian traders, the Catholic Church used brute force to convert the native people to the cross. Dare I say this was the mindset that has it’s roots in the Churchs’ crusades and the inquisitions within Europe.
This same Church tries to lay the charge of ‘forced conversions’ upon Islam and raises the ago-old misnomer allegations of Islam being ‘spread by the sword’. This has been rebutted so many times, that I present another angle to this answer here : http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=43087&ln=eng
Peace to all.