Introduction
This is just a sharing with brothers and sisters
in faith about the importance of da'awa according to the tafsir written by Mr. Abdul Malik Amrullah from
Indonesia. I read his books since before my full repentance and trying to be a "submitting" Muslim
again. My dad has a collection of religious books and literatures but he never
read any of them. It was me who read them even though I was just a young little
kid. One does not have to be labeled as a member of Jama'at Tabligh or Ikhwan
al-Muslimun to perform this noble work. It does not need any brand or
mission order.
Ancestral
Mission Order
During my research about our ancestors and their
heritage, I found that those who landed here were merchant alias da'ie
and they also had the hierarchical basis like those of Tabligh Jama'at
and the Ikhwan al-Muslimun. Nowadays many were ex-communicated from the tariqa
due to that they were scattered
everywhere and disconnected from the centers of mission. If brothers and
sisters could guess, our paternal community is a minority community which could
be founded in Northern Yemen mountainous region, in Najran which is a province in Southern Saudi Arabia, in Saudi
Arabian Eastern province, in Gujarat
of India and in Sindh of Pakistan.
Our ancestors were from the second branch of the tariqa which was known in general by those who claim themselves as
the Sunnis as deviating tariqa
because of their confusion which leads to generalization with the first branch
group's practices or maybe its doctrine. The tariqa generally traced its genealogy from the Fatimid
Empire of Egypt around 10th century. However, many people in our ancestral
branch of tariqa were also
specialized in any of four “Salafi Imams” jurisprudence apart of the belief
that they have with them and those originated from Yemen practicing the
jurisprudence almost identical to the Shafi’ie
madzhab practices except with little differences as I could still remember
how I was taught to pray at home by elders when I was a five years old little
boy where we have the takbeer during
the sitting between two sujoods. I recalled this act when I
saw an Iranian praying in our hostel’s musalla
before he gets his student visa and later disappear because he already get what
he wants. One of our ancestral faiths is that da’awa is an obligation on every Muslim and it is a part of the
faith articles.
Da’awa as a
Way to Preserve the Grace of Allah
It is mentioned by the Lord in Glorious Quran in Surah
Aali 'Imran verse 104. Says Allah : "And
there must be some of you a group (or nation) who call toward goodness and
telling others to perform charity and to prohibit vices. And they are those
among who will achieve success".
For us, our Path is not only a way of life but also a grace from the Lord. To preserve His grace upon everyone, there must be a group of Muslim congregation as what has been mentioned by the Lord with the word “nation” who prepare themselves for the mission to call people to Him. These people are calling others to perform charity and chastity. They behave politely and propagating love besides prohibiting vices and anything which opposes the norms of society and human-being as a whole.
In the verse, there are two important words which
is ma’aruf or charity which was
rooted from the word ‘uroof. It
means something which is accepted and being perceived by society as a healthy
norm performed by every sane human-being. The second word is munkar or vice which means something
unpleasant, detested and rejected by society because it is inappropriate. Vice
is not something which is accepted by sane human-being.
The path or religion here is a mean to help
human-being to differentiate which one is ma’aruf
and which one is munkar. Because of
this, the munkar and ma’aruf are never separated from
general opinion. If a person is performing charity and chastity, most of people
in society will generally accept his acts, accepting the acts and praising the
acts. If the acts are those categorized as munkar
or vices, society generally will reject them, detest them and dislike them.
That is why, when a person is highly immersed in his religion or path, he will
get to know more what the ma’aruf
are and what are the munkar acts or
behavior? Before we go further, can anyone sense the basis of law-making here?
Is it so hard to understand this law of nature? This is not only about Islam, this is not only about Muhammad s.a.w if some people are so
anti to these without any basis. This is about the nature…
As such, it is an obligation on every Muslim man
and woman in a congregation to work hard in order to lead people toward the ma’aruf and to help people from
committing munkar so the society
will be a valuable society. Not a low-life society. Calling people toward
goodness, charity and chastity and helping people to avoid vices, crimes, and
evil acts is known as da’awa or
mission. Da’awa is the spirit of
religion and without it, the religion is dead.
Allahumma salli 'alaa Muhammad, wa 'alaa aali Muhammad wa sahbihi ajma'iin! Dear the God, please be in contact with Muhammad s.a.w and with his family and with his companions all, amin!
Sealed with prayers for mercy, peace and love, amin!
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