Character plays a major role of inviting mad3u to taqwa. You
may be great in delivering speech but your action makes most of the effort of
making mad3u conscious of Allah. There was a story of a muslim man. He was
raised by a muslim family. But his family’s deen was some kind of complicated.
It was totally mixed up with other religion. He grown up in New York and never
really practicing Islam at that time. He used to get into fight with his
mother, he went to jail, he used to be in mob gangs and all kind of stuff.
Later on, he repented and starts looking for god. As his
name was muslim so he started to search about Islam. He started going to masjid
and starts learning how to pray. One day his wife [who was not a muslim at that
time] realized that his husband had changed. He was praying, beers was gone
from the fridge, he was not going out with his drinking buddies and he did not
spend his weekend in Atlantic City anymore. He was a different guy! And the guy
did not tell anything to his wife. He didn’t even asked the wife to wear hijaab
or to pray.
The guy went to meet a scholar in their city. He told the
scholar of their current situation that he was becoming more religious and her
wife was still a christian. And he did asked for help! The scolar said ‘ Don’t
say anything about islam. Just be the best husband you can be and to that, just
study what kind of husband that our prophet had shown to us’. In the other
word, just follow the sunnah!
At first he did make some argument with her wife about
christianity but none of them really worked. 3 years goes by and he stops
debating about christianity. He just be what he can be as the best husband. One
day as he was making maghrib, his wife joint him in solah! He was totally
curious and asked her after solah.
H: What happen?
W: No, nothing..
H: No you have to tell what’s going on.
W: It’s complicated
[like most women said]. Eventually the wife told the husband that she was
really amazed with his husband. The way he treated their family. The way he
plays with their child. It was totally different. She never saw a man treated
their family like he was. Even his father was not so good to her. It was so
beautiful. This religion can’t be wrong.
Subhanallah! You can see Islam in the way people communicate
and socializing. It was’t just about being in masjid, remembering as many ayah
of quran, spits out the knowledge at someone and how many qoutes of scholars
you can deliver. It is about how are you living up your life. If people can see
that, you are calling them to the taqwa. -UNAK-
I'm not so good when it comes to practical but do pray for me and tell me if I did anything wrong :)