In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
MODEL DAWAH PROGRAM ,
INDIVIDUAL ACTION PLAN & BUILDING IMOA
The Dawah Program with the following comments:
1.
Basically it must be cleared to all of us that Dawah and Tarbiyah must go together. Keeping them at poles
asunder we could not get any thing so far and if we follow the same practice,
we will get nothing even if we try for hundreds of years more.
2.
The "Dawah Plan" that you have sent is quite “sketchy”, insufficient
and different from what we need in the present context of ICNA and that of the
3.
In this respect, I am enlisting the following requisites that each worker must posses.
Each
worker will have his own Action Plan to enable him/her to emerge as
an effective Da'ee within six month to one year time. He/she has to
attain the following minimum requirements. However,
individual targets can be re-set locally in consultation with Unit President or
with the undersigned during his visit to Units or through E-mail or on phone as
it suits to individual worker.
The objectives of the Individual Action Plan are to attain:
a. working knowledge of Islam: b. knowing this country very well; c. changing his/her life by becoming
a model of what he/she preaches; d. developing
the spirit of sacrifice of time, talents and resources for Allah's Deen and
the Islamic Movement; e. actively
involving in Dawah activities through attending all the programs of ICNA at
local, Unit and Central levels and contributing to Baitulmal regularly.
The Individual
Action Plan for each MGA/worker to follow meticulously is appended below.
4. To make the Program effective, Inchrge of each NNT will submit his monthly
report of all Dawah activities [on a given format] to its UNIT within the first
week of the following month and the Unit President will submit a consolidated monthly
report of his Unit to Dawah Department by 20th of each month for
review and comments, if any. The Dawah Department will submit a quarterly
report to Amir for his review and comments.
5.
Keeping the
above needs and objectives in mind, I have developed the following Dawah Program for the Years 2005
-2006/7 and hope you will get it approved by the Shurah with the understanding
that each member will assist to his
level best to get it implemented in his respective Unit/Region/Central
involvements.
I. THE GOAL:
1. Bringing
the message of Islam at the doorsteps of every house in
2.
Organizing the Muslim community of
3. Holding
Quarterly Dawah Camps in each Unit for evaluation of Dawah
efforts/programs/targets at individual, Neighbornet/Usra and city levels and attending both individual and collective
Dawah problems.
II. THE PROGRAM:
1. Dawah
at individual level:
* Dawah to self: self-education and
self-purification – eradicating all impurities and inconsistencies from life -
thoughts, action and deeds; * keeping vigilance for observing obligatory Salah,
preferably in congregation, Sawm and Infaq [spending in the way of Allah] along
with the non-obligatory ones, especially Tahajjud, to the extent possible;
* cultivating extreme fear of Hellfire and sustaining un insatiable urge to get
into Jannah [Paradise] through continuous struggle for Iqamatuddeen in the land
where we live. [Literature for study will be as prescribed in the Individual
Action Plan]
* Dawah
to Muslims: through person-to-person contact – At least ONE
contact in a week; * participating Masajid Dawah program; * inviting
Muslims to join Masajid programs and be a part of it;
* Dawah to Non-Muslims: At the initial stage, developing
social contact with Jews and Christians in neighborhood and at job or working
place, creating the impression that you are a good “guy” and a man who comes
to help at time of need and distress – Developing social contact with at
least two persons in 2005 and four in 2006.
2. Dawah
at family level:
*
Arranging family get together once a week for acquiring Islamic knowledge and teaching
Islamic manners to the children and other family members of the house to the
extent that they are practically involved with the Islamic Movement of America
[ICNA]
* Making the home as model for
neighbors, friends and relatives, keeping it clean both from inside and
outside, observing moral values and ethical standards prescribed by Islam and
manifesting love for the youngsters and respect for the elders;
3. Dawah
at Society/Community level
* At
Neighbornet/Usra level: Group Contacts in selected or designated areas through
intensive/extensive Dawah programs: door to door contacts; Service
to humanity; educating the people against Munkar; holding Open
House Meetings, arranging frequent get together and holding other
public-oriented programs, as situation warrants, to that effect.
* At Community level: Organizing the Muslim
Community of
* Weekly
Programs at Neighbornet/Usra level:
First
Week: Group Dawah contacts in designated areas
Second
Week: Education and
self-development program as prescribed by our Tarbiyah Department.
Third
Week: Group Dawah contacts
as in the first week;
Fourth
Week: Education and
self-development program as prescribed by our Tarbiyah Department.
* Quarterly
Dawah Camps at CITY LEVEL with the following Programs for six to
eight hours duration:
1. Study of the Qur’an - Significance of DI and
allied topics with Q/A
2. A discussion –comparative study of
Islam with Judaism, Christianity and other modern cults/Isms
3.
Special Dawah Field Trip to the designated areas of the city;
4. Visiting mosques - meeting
Imams, Muslim
leadership of the area, discussing Dawah at Masjid
or community level, addressing Musalli and
helping/providing their Dawah needs;
5. Discussing about individual and collective
Dawah Problems – through workers participation;
6. Collective Du’a to be followed by
collective Dinner.
IMPORTANT NOTES: * Each Region/Unit is to plan/arrange
Dawah Camps in advance for whole of the year; * Book the speakers on its own accord; * Amir, VP, SG and Chairman of Dawah and
Tarbiyah Departments and Members of the Central Shura will be available on
contact – on first come first serve basis;
* The Amir, the SG and the Chairman of Dawah Dept. will evaluate the
entire Dawah program/projects/targets along with the input and output of each
MGA at city level. It is a must for them to do wherever they visit the Units.
Chairman Dawah Dept. will make special visits to different Regions/cities for
this evaluation process. It is the key to attain our Goal/Objectives as spelled
out at the very outset of this Program.
* Dawah in Jail: * will continue as it is going
on by our Why-Islam Unit; * Effective
Flyers and Dawah material will be arranged as and when required; * Visit to
Jails will be arranged locally by each Unit; * especial efforts are to be made
to follow up the Muslim inmates coming out of jail in order to make them good
Muslims and effective Da’ees; * if
possible, to start in NY a half-way house with the help of ICNA
Relief.
* Dawah through Internet:
Opening Dialogue on website, E-mail correspondence – To be undertaken by
workers at individual level through a Dawah network to be made operative by our
why-Islam Unit in consultation with Dawah department making every effort to
start Why-Islam unit Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Washington and LA in 2005
* Central Dawah Programs:
i. Abraham [Prophet Ibrahim] Day.
ii.
Qur’an Awareness week. [“Qur’an is for everyone”]
iii. Membership
drive week.
iv.
New Muslim Convention at Orlando, FL.
iv. Dawah
Week for non-Muslims.
NOTE: Respective Dates/weeks to be fixed by
our Shura, considering the overall situation of the movement and local
situation.
4. FUNDS:
BUDGET ITEMS
1. Dawah Literature -Flyers and Books
2. Dawah in Campuses
3. Qur’an Awareness week
4. Traveling and Telephone
5. Other Office Expenses
6. New
Muslims Convention
NOTE: All Regions and City Units will immediately
open a Dawah Fund and make especial campaign to raise funds for Dawah Projects;
publishing Dawah material and Dawah field activities. Units will keep 50% for
the local Dawah needs and transfer 50% to
5. IMPORTANT
GUIDELINES:
i. Each Unit
MUST immediately designate one Dawah Coordinator to look after the
implementation of this plan and inform the DD with his name, Phone/Fax #,
E-mail and postal addresses.
ii. Each Unit MUST create a separate Dawah Fund, as
spelled out above, to implement this plan at Unit, Regional and Central levels.
iii. Each Unit is to arrange literature to cater its
Dawah needs. Sample of Dawah flyers will be provided by Why-Islam Unit and
Dawah Dept. DD can also arrange Dawah material, provided it is furnished with
funds as explained above.
1v. For Mass Contact: Every unit will be FREE
to make its own program such as: opening Dawah Booths in local festivals, busy
market places, political rallies, displaying sign boards on streets,
introducing toll free number, arranging Dawah tables at campuses and Mal on
regular basis, organizing Why-Islam Dawah projects on
local/state/national levels.
iv. Every
Unit will constitute a committee to look after the brothers and sisters, who
become Muslim, especially through its own efforts. It would help in organizing
our Mini Convention of New-Muslims and afterward will help in keeping contact
with them in a continuous process to make them effective Da’ees. It should
be given top priority in order to make genuine efforts to transfer ICNA
leadership to indigenous brothers and sisters ASAP.
v. Dawah talents available outside ICNA are invited to work with our mass contact programs and be part of our Dawah efforts and the Movement subsequently.
vi. Our Youth must be especially advised to arrange Dawah tables on fixed days in campuses and Mal on regular basis.
vii. Dawah Ilallah is the blood artery of the Islamic
Movement and contact on person-to-person basis is its backbone. Each of us,
therefore, is expected to devote at least SIX to EIGHT hours in a week for the
cause that he or she loves the most. Every
one of us will, Insha Allah, commit to this minimum standard. Unit Presidents
will keep an eye over this commitment.
Viii. The best moments of life of a Da’ee are those
when he is in the field for Dawah Ilallah or begging to his or her Lord during
late hours of night for His Maghfirah, Mercy and Isteqamah fi Al-Deen. Let us adopt DI as the routine of our life
with sincerity and devotion. It would be a practical demonstration of our will
to get the Deen of Allah introduced, spread and establish in the body politics
of this land in due course, Insha Allah.
May Allah give Tawfeeq to each of us to be the model
for others! Amen!
II. INDIVIDUAL ACTION
PLAN – [TARGETS]
I. UNDERSTANDING ISLAM - INDIVIDUAL STUDY PROGRAM [MINIMUM]:
The Objectives: *developing the habit
of study on daily basis; *Understanding Islam from direct
sources through his/her own vision, *getting confidence through direct
study and enabling him/her to present the Deen of Allah any time any
where in the light of the Qur'an, Sunnah and the Seerah of Rasulullah (S).
QUR'AN: One Ruku daily. Minimum 4 RUKU PER WEEK
[memorizing 1 verse every week]
HADITH: One Hadith daily. Minimum 3 HADITH PER WEEK [memorizing
1 Hadith every month]
SEERAH: 4/5 pages daily Minimum 20 PAGES PER WEEK [preparing your
own notes]
[Seerah of Rasulullah (S) and that of
Sahabah & A'imma Arbaa]
II. BOOKS TO STUDY [A MUST]:
1.
"LET US BE MUSLIMS" ["KHUTBAT" in Urdu]
2. "TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ISLAM" [ " Risala
DEENIYAAT" in Urdu]
3. "THE COMMITMENT" + "METHODOLOGY OF DAWAH" + “THE DAWAH
PROGRAM”
4. "ISLAMIC WAY OF LIFE" [ITS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC & POLITICAL
SYSTEM]
5.
"ISLAMI TAHZEEB
6. "ISLAMIC ANTIQUATES" [ADABEY ZINDAGI in Urdu]
7. "EVERY DAY FIQH" [ASAAN FIQH in Urdu]
8. "HISTORY OF ISLAM" of the first 150 years of Hijrah
III. UNDERSTANDING THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE:
1. History
of the
2. DAILY
NY TIMES - Section A, specially its OP-ED PAGES or any standard local
paper
3. HISTORY OF JEWS, specially the Protocol of Elders
4. History of Renaissance [From 1452 A.D.TILL DATE, noting specially world
trends.
5. Comparative study of Islam, Judaism and Christianity
IV. DAWAH TO SELF, FAMILY, MUSLIMS
& PEOPLE OF THE LAND
1. Dawah to Self:
* Mindfully carrying out the Study Program, changing life in process
* Watchfully observing Individual Ebadah besides Faraiz: Tahajjud, Nafil Sawm
& Infaq
2. DAWAH TO FAMILY: Holding weekly get together for: *Joint
study program – Qur’an, Hadith
Seerah;
*Let
us be conscious Muslims;
*Let us make ours a model home
3.
DAWAH TO MUSLIMS: AT
LEAST ONE CONTACT PER WEEK [to begin with]
4. DAWAH TO PEOPLE OF THE LAND: Developing
at least two social contacts with neighbors
in six
months to one year.
5.
FOR MASS CONTACT:
1. Actively participating in Dawah
activities at Masjid or neighbornet level
2. Actively participating with Inca's Dawah
& Tarbiyah Projects at
all
levels with financial and physical contributions in its programs.
V. EVALUATION: AT EVERY MONTH-END WEEKLY MEETING at NNT level
IMPORTANT NOTES:
1. Self-Evaluation: It is obligatory on each worker to read
minutely at least once a
week Appendix - D [Matters to think and Job to
Perform] from “The Dawah Program”,
evaluating his growth and shortcomings in every field
of his life on regular basis.
2. Every week every worker will give his progress on the above
Five points within two minutes.
The NNT Incharge will make his notes and give general comments within
five minutes, if
necessary. General discussion will, however, take place in
month-end weekly meetings.
3. Study of the Qur'an will be as per course listed under Appendix
-B of “The Dawah Program”.
*For Hadith, please start from “Zaderah” or "The Provision For
Akhirah"
4. Regularity and punctuality with devotion and
commitment are the essence of success.
It is hoped that each worker would be recognized by others by these attributes.
5. DU'A - SUPPLICATION TO ALLAH: It is the most effective
Tool of a Da'ee to seek Allah's
Nusrah
in his Dawah efforts. The more he begs from Him, the more he will get it,
thereby,
developing a constant life-long habit to beg everything from Allah. It is
the prime most
beauty of a Da’ees character. Every
worker will, Insha Allah, build this habit
prominently within self.
6. Every worker will get it printed at his end and keep it
always with him as guidelines
towards fulfilling the obligation of
Iqamatuddeen.
7. For the fulfillment of
the Action Plan, each worker will have to put up compulsorily minimum 6
to
8 hours every week as it is his
commitment.
May Allah give Tawfeeq to all of us to accomplish these Targets
to His entire satisfaction, enabling us to build the requisite team of
Da'ee Ilallah in American perspective. Amen!
III. BUILDING THE IMOA?
As presented in the open session on Sunday, I am producing the same for the consideration of the Committee through your good offices:
I. ICNA could not fix its priorities at the very outset as “what to do and how”? As such, it “wasted” a lot of energy, talents and resources that could have paved the way to struggle for Iqamatuddeen in this country.
2. The priorities of Iqamatuddeen in the
3. If the objective of ICNA was and should be as per its CBL to
establish the Deen of Allah in the
4. As such, ICNA could not fix the NEEDS and its priorities to
build the Islamic Movement in this country so far though it claims vociferously
that it stands for that “Faridah” [obligation] and it is used as a “slogan”
only having no depth in this claim. Only “terminologies” of an Islamic Movement
are used but the spirit is missing. ICNA
could not fix the NEEDS of Iqamatuddeen in this country and I am sorry to say
it is just beating about the bush
5. The NEEDS of the IMOA can be summarized as under with the
expectation to asses what we could do so for and what we could not do due to
lack of vision in our leadership
6. The NEEDS as were at the outset and are the same as today. They are as follows:
A. Developing/building a team of devoted dedicated and committed Da’ees [brothers and sisters] with trustworthy character in American perspective - a continuous process that must start forthwith from the available committed workers [MGA’s] of ICNA. [If it needs any explanation and programming, I will do it gladly, Insha Allah, if asked by the [NAZM]
B. Preparing, producing and publishing Dawah literature as the prime need of Dawah Ilallah in this country as urged by Late Maulana Maududi (RA) and quoted in my book at page 111 of Methodology of Dawah]
C. Working simultaneously both extensively as that of [Why Islam or Masajid Dawah projects] and intensive Dawah contacts on person-to-person basis, multiplying the number of worker gradually and steadily.
D. With the growing numerical strength of Islamic workers, programs to purify the society must be undertaken in close cooperation with Masajid, Churches, Synagogues [Judeo-Christian-Muslim community], resorting to humanitarian services as where and when necessary.
These are the NEEDS and the priorities of the “would-be” Islamic
Movement in
I hope the committee will give due consideration to these decades old neglects and come up with a definite plan to transform ICNA to be the vibrant IMOA.
My best prayers and unconditional support will always be there for this cause that is dearest to all of us.
Shamim A Siddiqi