Advice for graduates who have abandoned the call to the oneness of Allah in their homelands

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: I am from Russia. What is your advice for the students from Russia who graduated from the universities in this blessed land, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but who have stopped calling people to the faith and stopped teaching? We do not find them calling to tawhid (the oneness of Allah) despite their ability to do so? What is the advice for these people? May Allah grant you success.

Answer:
This is in the Noble Qur'an, and Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:

For there should separate from every division of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.

فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ

[At-Tawbah 9:122]

Therefore, those who have learned and known the truth and known tawhid (the oneness of Allah) are not permitted to remain silent when they return to their lands; rather, they must teach the people

with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best

بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَالْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ وَجَادِلْهُم بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ

[An-Nahl 16:125]

meaning they teach them with gentleness and mildness, as much as possible. Yes.

Source شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وتلاعب الشيطان بالمشركين في عبادة الأصنام له أسباب عديدة — islamhouse.com (49:42)

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