FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

There was an able shaykh who trained student for da’wah – six month in theory and three months in the field for practice. A confident student graduating from the theoretical part felt that he could do the practical part by him self. The syhakh warned him against this view, but the student did not listen. He went off  to a remote village to practice da’wah. On the first Friday, a phoney imam delivered a khutbah full of lies about Allah and the prophet. The student stood up and shouted : “the imam is a lier. Neither Allah and the Prophet (SAW) made any of these statement.” The imam responded : “this young man is a kafir and deserves to be punished.” The audience in the masjid beat the student badly. The student went back to his shyakh with bandages and broken bones! The shyakh said to him : “let me show you a good example of pratical da’wah.” Next Friday he went to the same masjid when the same imam deliverd a similiar khutbah. Having listened to the khutbah, the shyakh stood up and declared : “your imam is a man of jannah. Anyone who takes even a single hair from his beard will earn jannah.” At once, the people attacked the imam’s beard and pulled one hair after another until he was left beardless and bleeding on the floor. Then the shyakh whispered in the ear of the imam : “ are you going to stop lying about Allah and the Prophet (SAW) and behave yourself, or do you want more punishment ?” the imam admitted his mischief and repented. The student realized his mistake and pleaded to the shyakh to give him his three months of pratical da’wah field training! There is a world of difference between theory and application.

The story taken at the book af  “Training guide of the Islamic Worker”

Written by : Hisyam Altalib.