What is your advice for one who enters Islam and then immediately begins calling others to it, without starting by calling his relatives?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is your advice for one who enters Islam in the lands of the disbelievers, and then immediately begins calling others to it, without focusing on calling his relatives, but rather going to those who are far away?
Answer:
First of all, how can he begin calling others to it when he has not yet learned? He is a new convert to Islam; he must learn. The call must be based on knowledge, so he learns first, then he calls to Allah and starts with his relatives.[Ash-Shu'ara 26:214] He starts with his relatives. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is your advice for one who enters Islam in the lands of the disbelievers, and then immediately begins calling others to it, without focusing on calling his relatives, but rather going to those who are far away?
Answer:
First of all, how can he begin calling others to it when he has not yet learned? He is a new convert to Islam; he must learn. The call must be based on knowledge, so he learns first, then he calls to Allah and starts with his relatives.
And warn, [O Muhammad], your closest kindred.
وَأَنذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2108 -3022] ما نصيحتكم لمن يدخل في الإسلام ثم يبدأ مباشرة في الدعوة ولا يبدأ بدعوة أقاربه؟ — youtube.com
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