85 results for “dawah”

Seerah 16 results
13 BH Period of Secret Dawah

... of people — a period the seerah historians call the secret dawah (al-da'wa al-sirriyya). The divine command had not yet come...

10 BH Gatherings at Dar al-Arqam

...y Muslim community in Mecca during the secret period of the dawah and continuing into the early public period. It was the hou...

10 BH Public Declaration of Islam

...ijr, 15:94) With this command, the period of careful secret dawah ended and the far more dangerous phase of open proclamation...

9 BH Conversion of al-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi

...rah al-Dawsi. Al-Tufayl's conversion and subsequent patient dawah thus created the spiritual conditions through which the gre...

2 BH Presenting Islam to the Tribes at Mecca

...rom tribe to tribe warning each group not to listen to him, calling him a liar who had abandoned his fathers' religion. The Pro...

1 BH Mus'ab ibn Umayr Sent to Medina as Teacher

...shhal clan. Sa'd came to confront Musab, sat down at Asad's invitation to at least listen, heard the Quran, and converted on the s...

12 Rabi al-Awwal, 1 AH First Friday (Jumu'ah) Prayer

...ess, addressing piety, death, and communal obligations, and calling the gathering to obedience of Allah and His Messenger. The...

2 AH Marriage of Fatimah to Ali ibn Abi Talib

...). The Prophet ﷺ was deeply attached to his grandchildren — calling Hasan and Husayn the Masters of the Youth of Paradise. The ...

5 Sha'ban, 4 AH Birth of al-Husayn ibn Ali

...ad period. In 61 AH, he traveled toward Kufa in response to invitations from its people — who then failed to support him — and was...

Muharram, 7 AH Letters to the Rulers of the World

...m's universal scope: not a religion for Arabia only, but an invitation to all of humanity, dispatched from Medina to the thrones o...

7 AH Return of the Abyssinian Emigrants

...s to the Negus remains one of the earliest recorded Islamic da'wah speeches to a non-Muslim ruler. He described pre-Islamic Ar...

Jumada al-Ula, 8 AH Battle of Mu'tah

.... When some companions threw dust on the returning soldiers calling them fleers, the Prophet ﷺ corrected them: 'They are return...

Shawwal, 8 AH Battle of Hunayn

...Tihamah. The Prophet ﷺ stood in the rout on his white mule, calling: 'I am the Prophet of Allah — I am Muhammad ibn Abdullah.' ...

Shawwal, 8 AH Siege of Ta'if

...ission and the destroyed idol, the full arc of patience and da'wah realized.

Ramadan, 9 AH Delegation of Thaqif and Acceptance of Islam by Ta'if

...t complete demonstrations in the seerah of what patience in da'wah looks like over time. The principle established by the Thaq...

Rajab, 9 AH Death of the Negus (al-Najashi) of Abyssinia

.... He announced to the companions: 'Your brother has died' — calling him brother, placing him in the brotherhood of Islam — and ...

History 15 results
Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Nuh (Noah, peace be upon him)

... increased them in flight.'" Despite his tireless efforts — calling in public and in private, openly and in secret — only a sma...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Hud (peace be upon him)

...you" (Surah Hud 11:53). Hud remained patient and steadfast, calling them to repentance and warning them of Allah's punishment. ...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Lut (Lot, peace be upon him)

...ying they would expel Lut and his family if he did not stop calling them to abandon what they practiced. Angels in the form of...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ishaq (Isaac, peace be upon him)

...n, Dawud, Sulayman, and Isa. Ishaq continued the prophetic calling of his father Ibrahim, maintaining the message of tawhid in...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Sulayman (Solomon, peace be upon him)

...t queen who worshipped the sun. Sulayman sent her a message calling her to Islam. Before she arrived, her throne was transporte...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ilyas (Elijah, peace be upon him)

...rophethood. Despite their rejection, Ilyas persisted in his calling, warning them of the consequences of their idolatry. The Qu...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Alyasa (Elisha, peace be upon him)

...e performed miracles and continued the prophetic mission of calling Israel back to the worship of the one God. Islamic traditio...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Isa (Jesus, peace be upon him)

...110). Isa was given the Injeel (Gospel) — divine revelation calling humanity to the worship of Allah alone. He foretold the com...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)

...man existence. The Prophet ﷺ spent thirteen years in Mecca calling to tawhid, enduring persecution, torture of his followers, ...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ The True Message of Isa AS: Pure Tawhid

... the Torah, purifying the excesses that had accumulated and calling humanity back to the fitrah. It contained guidance on praye...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ The Remnants of True Monotheism: Communities of Pure Faith

... of Ibrahim, refusing to eat meat slaughtered for idols and calling upon Allah directly without any intercessor or image. The P...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ Waraqah ibn Nawfal: The Christian Scholar Who Awaited the Prophet ﷺ

...thood and affirmation of its truth — even before the formal invitation to full submission — was accepted by Allah for those who di...

History · Rashidun Caliphate Battle of Siffin

...ered soldiers to hoist copies of the Quran on their spears, calling for arbitration. Many of Ali's followers compelled him to a...

Battle · Rashidun Caliphate Battle of Siffin

...wiyah's forces attached pages of the Quran to their spears, calling for arbitration by the Book of Allah. Ali's army, particula...

History · Abbasid Dynasty Founding of Baghdad

Caliph al-Mansur built Baghdad as the new Abbasid capital, calling it Madinat al-Salam (City of Peace). The round city became ...

People 26 results
prophet Prophet Shuayb (Jethro)

Prophet sent to the people of Madyan, calling them to honest trade and worship of Allah.

modern Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani

... and Islamic modernist who traveled across the Muslim world calling for Muslim unity against European colonialism. Teacher of M...

modern Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi

... grassroots movements in the world. Emphasized door-to-door dawah and self-reformation through traveling in the path of Allah...

modern Hamka

Indonesian Islamic scholar, author, and political figure, known for his major Quran commentary 'Tafsir al-Azhar.'

modern Uthman dan Fodio

Fulani scholar, reformer, and founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, one of the largest states in 19th-century Africa.

modern Nana Asma'u

Daughter of Uthman dan Fodio and a celebrated female scholar, poet, and educator who established women's education networks in the Sokoto Caliphate.

modern Abdal Hakim Murad

British Muslim scholar, Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, and one of the most influential Western Muslim intellectuals.

modern Habib Umar bin Hafiz

Yemeni scholar and founder of Dar al-Mustafa in Tarim, one of the most influential traditional Islamic learning centers in the world.

modern Habib Ali al-Jifri

Yemeni-Emirati Islamic scholar, media personality, and founder of the Tabah Foundation for Islamic studies and research.

modern Manzoor Nomani

Indian Deobandi scholar and author of 'Ma'arif al-Hadith,' a popular hadith compilation widely read in the Indian subcontinent.

modern Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

Syrian scholar from a distinguished scholarly family, known for his traditional Islamic teaching and work in counter-extremism.

modern Hamza Yusuf

American Muslim scholar, co-founder of Zaytuna College, widely regarded as one of the most influential Muslims in the Western world.

modern Zainab al-Ghazali

Egyptian Islamic activist and author, founder of the Muslim Women's Association and author of 'Return of the Pharaoh' about her imprisonment.

modern Ahmad Dahlan

Founder of Muhammadiyah, one of the largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia, and a pioneer of Islamic educational reform.

modern Abu al-Hasan an-Nadwi

Indian Islamic scholar and author of 'Madha Khasira al-Alam bi Inhitat al-Muslimin' (What the World Lost by the Decline of Muslims), a seminal work on Islamic c

modern Muhammad al-Ghazali as-Saqqa

Egyptian Islamic scholar and thinker, author of numerous influential books on Islamic ethics, Quran interpretation, and social reform.

modern Hasan Ayyub

Egyptian Islamic scholar and author of popular, accessible books on fiqh, seerah, and Islamic behavior widely used across the Arab world.

modern Jafar Sheikh Idris

Sudanese Islamic scholar, philosopher, and educator (1931–2025 CE). Born in Omdurman, Sudan, he pursued advanced study in Islamic sciences and philosophy in Eng

modern Bilal Philips

Canadian-Jamaican Islamic scholar, prolific author of over 50 books in English on Islamic sciences, and founder of the International Open University.

modern Yusuf Estes

American convert to Islam and prominent da'wah scholar known for his accessible teaching style and online ...

modern Siraj Wahhaj

Prominent American Muslim leader, imam of Masjid At-Taqwa in Brooklyn, and one of the most recognized Muslim voices in the United States.

modern Yasir Qadhi

American Islamic scholar with a PhD from Yale University, formerly Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, known for accessible English-language educat

modern Zaid Shakir

American Muslim scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States.

contemporary Muhammad al-Arifi

A prominent contemporary Saudi Islamic scholar and preacher (b. 1970 CE), known for popular books Enjoy Your Life and You Can Be the Happiest Woman and for his

contemporary Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

A prolific Saudi Islamic scholar and preacher (b. 1959 CE), author of La Tahzan (Don't Be Sad), one of the best-selling Islamic books of all time with tens of m

contemporary Ahmad Deedat

A South African Muslim author and orator (1918-2005 CE), founder of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI), known for comparative religion debates

Articles 9 results
Dawah Dawah — Calling to Islam

The obligation of inviting to Islam: methodology from the Quran and Sunnah, wisdom, and beautiful preaching.

Dawah Islam and Christianity: Key Theological Differences

A respectful comparison of core beliefs about God, Jesus, salvation, scripture, and the afterlife in Islam and Christianity.

Dawah Islam and Judaism: Shared Roots and Divergences

Exploring the Abrahamic connection between Islam and Judaism, from monotheism and dietary laws to prophets and scripture.

Dawah Embracing Islam: The Journey of Conversion

A guide for those considering Islam: taking the shahada, the support new Muslims need, and the rights converts have in the community.

Dawah The Etiquette and Methods of Dawah

Quranic principles for inviting to Islam with wisdom, beautiful preaching, and respectful dialogue, following the Prophet's example.

Dawah Interfaith Dialogue from an Islamic Perspective

The Quranic foundations for engaging with people of other faiths, historical examples, and contemporary guidelines.

Dawah Embracing Islam: The Spiritual Journey of Conversion

Guidance for those interested in Islam and new Muslims, from the shahada to building a strong Islamic identity.

Society Islamophobia: Historical Roots and Islamic Responses

Understanding the origins of anti-Muslim prejudice, its modern manifestations, and the principled Islamic approach to responding with wisdom and good character.

Society An Islamic Perspective on Social Media

Balancing the benefits of connection and dawah with the spiritual dangers of social media, including riya,...

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