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Dawaah in the Public Forum
 
Taken from HIRU - Human Interaction for Religious Understanding athttp://www.angelfire.com/sd/HIRU/
 
The public forum is the public areas where the general population interact orgather. Such places as public libraries, County Fairs, Neighborhood Street Parties,State Fairs, Craft Fairs, College campuses, etc.
 
Muslims have only begun to address the public and to openly discuss Islam, andthe various Muslim Cultures within Islam. Too often we as Muslims have set backexpecting someone "more knowledgable" to teach Islam. Yet this is not how thefirst Believers taught Islam. With each piece of knowledge, that they learned,they took it back to their own people, and taught that piece of knowledge.
 
We as the present day Ummah must follow the Sunnah & do the same.
 
A Muslim or Muslimah does not have to be gifted in public speaking, for bringingIslam to people can be done in a variety of ways.
 
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Leave Islamic Magainzes in Doctor's Clinics for patients to readwhile they wait.
 
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Design a bulletine Board display for a public library regarding some"cultural" aspect of Islam (i.e. hijab, prayers, motherhood, etc)
 
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Become a donor to A local Library, providing books that showMuslims & Islam in a positive light.
 
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Volunteer to read to elderly in a nursing home.
 
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Buy Soup & Bread, then serve it to homeless people where theylive (travel with it in a thermos to keep it warm)
 
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Choose school paper topics which deal with some aspect of Islam.Then research the subject & write your school paper on thatsubject. In this way you are teaching your teacher something newtoo. (i.e. Cross-gender non-verbal communication & the effectveiling has on it)
 
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Take your Out-of-fashion or No longer worn clothing, and deliver itto an area of homeless people (i.e. a shelter or kitchen) Give it toindividuals directly whenever possible.
 
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Arrange for local stores you regularly shop at, display a rack withbrochures on Islam.
 
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Cooperate with inter-religious organizations to have Muslimspeakers as guest speakers.
 
 
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Participate in your LARGER community. Islam is best taught byexample, so don't try to isolate yourself. It was not the sunnah of the Prophet to live in isolation.
 
It is important to Remember the Quran tells us that Allah has blinded some fromthe truth & made some people deaf to the words. So don't expect everyone toconvert, or to be interested. It is not our job to MAKE people Muslim. It is ourresponsiblity to offer Islam.
 
So in a way, we must first BELIEVE in what the Quran tells us.
 
Dawaah in the Work Place
 
Taken from HIRU - Human Interaction for Religious Understanding athttp://www.angelfire.com/sd/HIRU/
 
Often Muslims are reluctant to do dawaah at their job site. This doubt is often thebiggest stubbling block to defeating the stereotypes about Muslims, as well asone of the biggest LOST opportunities that exist for Muslims in providing dawaahto others each day.
 
Often Muslims work to participate in dawaah trips, choosing to travel elsewhere toperform dawaah, where they can feel SAFE since no one will be able to "followthem home".
 
Yet it is our daily actions as Muslims that teaches people little things about Islam.In fact it is because of the actions of individual Muslims that many of thesterotypes exist in America.
 
Too often Muslim blame the ignorance of the non-Muslim population, yet morethan not, the stereotype began as the action of a handful of individuals whowhere known to be Muslim & who's behavior was assumed to be related to theirreligious ideology. Since those individuals, and to a large extent generations of Muslims after did not correct the assumption, the stereotype was assumed to betrue.
 
If Muslims begin to open their own minds to the possiblities that exist in providingdawaah, insha Allah, we will find that many will have the opportunity & willingness to learn more.
 
You might ask, how one can go about providing dawaah, especially in the workplace where they are supposed to be working.
 
The answer is simple. Coffee Breaks!!
 
How many times do you sit by yourself during coffee break? Instead, do you sitwith other co-workers?
 
How often have you mentioned things like weddings you've attended, or the funyou had at the latest Muslim gathering? You don't need a formal degree toprovide dawaah!
 
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