Calling the patrons of cafes, advising them, and giving them booklets
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Question:
One of the questioners says — or rather, he speaks about some places where some people spend their time in other than obedience, and they may even fall into what is wrong, such as cafes and casinos, where they pass their time and waste it in smoking shisha or cigarettes, or watching satellite channels. What is your view on going to them and advising them with gentleness and kindness, and giving them some tapes and booklets by which Allah the Exalted may benefit them?
Answer:
This is a good deed, and this is among the best forms of calling to Allah: that you go to the places where people gather, and there may be what is wrong in them, so you call them to Allah with wisdom, good admonition, and the best kind of argument. You give them books, pamphlets, or good tapes, perhaps Allah will benefit them with them. But if we leave them in their gatherings and in their cafes, and no one goes to them, then the evil will increase and develop. But if they are accustomed to being visited, advised, and called to Allah the Exalted, then either the evil will be removed, or at the least the evil will be reduced. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
One of the questioners says — or rather, he speaks about some places where some people spend their time in other than obedience, and they may even fall into what is wrong, such as cafes and casinos, where they pass their time and waste it in smoking shisha or cigarettes, or watching satellite channels. What is your view on going to them and advising them with gentleness and kindness, and giving them some tapes and booklets by which Allah the Exalted may benefit them?
Answer:
This is a good deed, and this is among the best forms of calling to Allah: that you go to the places where people gather, and there may be what is wrong in them, so you call them to Allah with wisdom, good admonition, and the best kind of argument. You give them books, pamphlets, or good tapes, perhaps Allah will benefit them with them. But if we leave them in their gatherings and in their cafes, and no one goes to them, then the evil will increase and develop. But if they are accustomed to being visited, advised, and called to Allah the Exalted, then either the evil will be removed, or at the least the evil will be reduced. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
Source
الحكمة في الدعوة إلى الله — alfawzan.live (1:02:01)
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