The Ruling on Comedic Dawah Lectures to Attract the Youth

Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: Is calling people to Allah by delivering comedic lectures so that the youth accept it, love the da'wah, and love the da'wah and righteousness among the correct means of da'wah?

Answer:
Matters of religion are not to be mixed with any of these matters of independent legal reasoning. Matters of religion are matters of seriousness and firmness and clarity; they are not to be mixed with jokes and distractions. This is something that some people have introduced who claim to be from the da'wah, but they are not. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not call people to these matters by telling them jokes. He would recite the Qur'an to them, call them, command them, and forbid them. He did not tell them jokes or things of this sort of triviality that those who claim to be in the da'wah now use. Yes.