If your ruling on a society is that it is Muslim, then what is your need for da'wah within the Muslim society?

The questioner : ... We find that those who adopt ... stand before us in that they say.

The Shaykh : Before?

The questioner : Before us.

The Shaykh : Before us.

The questioner : If we stand before ... specifically ... a Muslim society; then what is your need for calling to ... calling them to Islam within the Muslim society?

The Shaykh : Subhan Allah! This is our position.

The questioner : There is.

The Shaykh : That this ... Islamic society, first, is the one that is dominating and adding corruption upon corruption; second, the same Islamic society. I think this detail, were you not present? It does not understand Islam correctly, and consequently does not apply it even within the limits of what it understands from it. Thus, tabarruj (a woman's display of her adornment), for example, ... there is a sect that approves of it, saying it is permissible and there is nothing wrong with it, while all the sects deny that it is haram (forbidden); nevertheless, it is widespread in these lands. Therefore, da'wah is not possible ... at all; whether in terms of correcting concepts, or in terms of improving or expanding the application. Therefore, da'wah is necessary, and more specifically, so that the word of Allah is the supreme and the ruling one. If we do not create a Muslim people filled with knowledge and faith, it is not possible to change the ruling on ... on the Muslims.