What is the correct method for calling non-Muslims to Islaam?
Question:
"What is the correct method for calling non-Muslims to Islaam and who are responsible for calling the kuffaar (disbelievers) in the West to Islaam?"
Answer:
"Each Muslim should take this responsibility upon himself to discharge this risaalah or this message of Islaam to the people. Each Muslim should invite according his ability. Each person should at least have some knowledge about what he is inviting to, so that he can actually call in a way that is convincing and there should be no harshness or violence involved in inviting to the Deen. Allaah سبحانه وتعالى says:
{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) to the way of your Lord (i.e. Islaam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Revelation and the Qur’aan) and fair preaching…} [an-Nahl 16:125]
So this should be the methodology to be followed – a proper and gentle message implemented by each person who intends to invite, and he should have some knowledge. For this reason the Students of Knowledge, should fulfill this particular responsibility more than anyone else and they should not act arrogantly towards anyone when inviting to Allaah's Deen."
Shaykh Muhammad bin 'Abdullaah as-Subayyal, may Allah have mercy upon him
Source: Question and Answers Session, delivered on the 11th of June, 2005.
"What is the correct method for calling non-Muslims to Islaam and who are responsible for calling the kuffaar (disbelievers) in the West to Islaam?"
Answer:
"Each Muslim should take this responsibility upon himself to discharge this risaalah or this message of Islaam to the people. Each Muslim should invite according his ability. Each person should at least have some knowledge about what he is inviting to, so that he can actually call in a way that is convincing and there should be no harshness or violence involved in inviting to the Deen. Allaah سبحانه وتعالى says:
{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) to the way of your Lord (i.e. Islaam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Revelation and the Qur’aan) and fair preaching…} [an-Nahl 16:125]
So this should be the methodology to be followed – a proper and gentle message implemented by each person who intends to invite, and he should have some knowledge. For this reason the Students of Knowledge, should fulfill this particular responsibility more than anyone else and they should not act arrogantly towards anyone when inviting to Allaah's Deen."
Shaykh Muhammad bin 'Abdullaah as-Subayyal, may Allah have mercy upon him
Source: Question and Answers Session, delivered on the 11th of June, 2005.