82. The whole life of the Prophet of
Islam was based on dawah mission, but the entire Muslim world is not
aware of this. What led to the
shift of emphasis?

I often experienced this when I spoke to several educated Muslims and asked them why do they not do dawah work? They said that dawah work was only the Prophet’s work, while their own work was to pray, fast and establish seminaries. This is wrong thinking. The Prophet had to spread his message to his contemporaries, but what will have to be done with the generations that follow? The importance of doing dawah work was almost deleted from recent Muslim history. Some focused on the revival of the Muslim community, while others on different aspects of religion. However, nobody worked for revival of dawah work.

This should raise our sense of responsibility. We should understand that we must now rigorously work for dawah, which the Muslim community has least focused on.