What is the best method for da'wah to women?
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The Shaykh : Here is a question that I find very strange. What is the best method for da'wah? How is da'wah to be done? I say to women: Stay in your homes. You have no business with da'wah. I disapprove of the use of the word "da'wah" among the youth, as if these are people of da'wah, as if da'wah has become the fashion of the present age. Every person who knows something of knowledge has become what? A da'i (caller to Islam). And the matter did not stop with the youth; it extended to the young women and the housewives, and they have become, in many cases, neglecting the performance of the duties of their homes, their husbands, and their children, turning away from these duties for what is not obligatory upon them, which is to engage in da'wah.
One of the previous questions was from a questioner who said that she heard from a tape of mine in a gathering in Kuwait that it is not permissible for women to go out for da'wah. So here is the question: What is the best method for da'wah? And how is da'wah to be done?
The original rule for a woman is that she stays in her home, and it is not prescribed for her to go out except for a pressing need. We mentioned earlier the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): regarding prayer in the mosques. And we see now a widespread phenomenon among women where they frequently go out to the mosques for congregational prayer, let alone for the Friday prayer, , except—as I also mentioned earlier—if there is a mosque with a knowledgeable imam who teaches the attendees something of the sciences of religion, then the woman goes out to the mosque to pray in order to listen to the knowledge; there is no harm in that. As for a woman being occupied with da'wah, let her sit in her home, and let her read from the books that her husband, her brother, or some of her mahrams (close relatives) prepare for her. Then there is no harm in her designating a day to invite women to come to her, or in her going out to attend at the home of one of them. That is better than the group of women going out; it is better for them that one of them goes to them than that they all go to her. As for her setting out or traveling, and perhaps traveling without a mahram, being deceived into thinking that she went out for da'wah, this is an innovation of the present age. I do not limit this to women only; rather, it includes the youth who are obsessed with talking about da'wah while they are still in the shallowest depths of knowledge.
The Shaykh : Here is a question that I find very strange. What is the best method for da'wah? How is da'wah to be done? I say to women: Stay in your homes. You have no business with da'wah. I disapprove of the use of the word "da'wah" among the youth, as if these are people of da'wah, as if da'wah has become the fashion of the present age. Every person who knows something of knowledge has become what? A da'i (caller to Islam). And the matter did not stop with the youth; it extended to the young women and the housewives, and they have become, in many cases, neglecting the performance of the duties of their homes, their husbands, and their children, turning away from these duties for what is not obligatory upon them, which is to engage in da'wah.
One of the previous questions was from a questioner who said that she heard from a tape of mine in a gathering in Kuwait that it is not permissible for women to go out for da'wah. So here is the question: What is the best method for da'wah? And how is da'wah to be done?
The original rule for a woman is that she stays in her home, and it is not prescribed for her to go out except for a pressing need. We mentioned earlier the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
And their homes are better for them
وبيوتهنَّ خير لهنَّTheir homes are better for them
بيوتهنَّ خير لهنَّ
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