How to convert my family to the true deen of Islam?
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
dear brother burhan assalam-walekum-wa-rehmaatullah-e-wabarkathu
firstly i would like to thank u for showing me the right path of islam its only with ALLAH wt'S
GRACE and through your mails thah i
was able to revert to islam i
was a bohri but after reading ur
mails
i have freed myself from those
unwanted chains in the name of religeon though my
family is still on the path of shirk n I want u to help me bring them to the
path of allah becoz it
seems impossible for me i tried telling them abt various ill practises (like kadam bosi and kissing the graves
n one of ur article abt
selling the places in markaz n masjids)
but what i got was scolding frm
my mother n a warning tht if i
bring th topic agn she ill
take action abt it next time also i
was not allowed to check my e mail without her permission untill
after 6 months or so so plz
help me i dont want them to
follow the wrong path n lead themselves to the hellfire once again thankyou n may allah watallah gives u more strength to continue ur job like this.
(i
hope u ill understand my short hand typing )
khuda hafiz
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Answer:
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no
prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone,
and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of
His Messengers.
All Praise is due to Allah Subhanah Alone, Who has had Mercy upon His slaves, and
guided them to the Truth of the Holy Quran and
Islam. No matter how much we thank and
praise our Merciful Lord, it would never be enough; for had Allah not had Mercy
on us, and had not guided us, we would have been
completely ruined. It is nothing but
His Mercy and His Grace, that He has opened our hearts
to the Truth of the Glorious Quran, and helped us to
recognize and abstain from the heinous and unforgivable sin of shirk through
it. All Praise is due to Allah Subhanah Alone, the Lord of the Worlds.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anaam verses 125-126:So (the fact
is that) whomever Allah wills to guide aright, He makes his breast wide open to
Islam. And whomever He wills to let go
astray, He makes his breast narrow and squeezes it so tight that (at the very
idea of Islam) he begins to feel as if his soul were climbing up towards the
sky. Thus Allah puts the wrath over
those who do not believe, whereas this Way is the
May Allah Subhanah
reward you with the best of this life and the hereafter, for making the Right
Decision to invoke and worship Allah Subhanah Alone,
and leave aside all the other ‘auliyaas’ besides Him! We are obviously
not worthy of any thanks or appreciation for our humble and weak efforts; for
we are only doing our duty to our brethren.
Allah has made it the duty of every believer, who sincerely believes in
Allah and the Last Day, to invite whoever wants to listen to good caution, to
the Truth of the Holy Quran. It is Allah Alone who has the Sole Power to
guide whomever He Wills to the Straight Path of Islam.
Your Statement: i was a bohri but after reading
Allah-o-Akbar! Allah-o-Akbar! Allah-o-Akbar! All Praise is due to Allah Subhanah Who has had Mercy on His slaves, and guided them
out of the ways of ignorance and darkness, to the Straight Path of knowledge, noor, the Quran and
Al-Islam! Allah is indeed the Most
Merciful of all those who show Mercy!
Allah-o-Akbar!
Allah is indeed the Greatest; there is no god worthy of worship except
the One Lord Alone, and He is High and Far Exalted above the ‘shirk’ that the
ungrateful people commit.
May Allah Subhanah
reward you for your intention and efforts to help your family recognize and
abstain themselves from the heinous and unforgivable sin of ‘shirk’; and come
to the straight path of Tawheed. After coming to the Truth yourself, it is
indeed your duty unto your family that you invite them to the Truth of the Holy
Quran.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 66 Surah Tahreem verse 6:O you who have
believed, save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel shall be men
and stones; over which shall be appointed fierce and stern angels, who never
disobey Allah’s Command, and they only do as they are commanded!
In our humble opinion, if you
could convince them to read the Holy Quran even once
with understanding, if the Merciful Lord Wills, they too would leave the evil
path of shirk, and come to the invocation and worship of the One Lord
Alone! But we must remember to do this
with a lot of wisdom and patience. We
must be careful never to be in haste, and we must never assume that just because
we have recognized and pointed out the evil of shirk that they commit, they
will immediately leave the deities they have been invoking and worshipping
since birth. We must never ever get
into a situation which results in a fight, or abuse, or any un-orderly
arguments. We must always try and
choose the best time, and determine whether one is willing to listen to good
caution and logic from the Glorious Quran, and then
invite them to the Truth in the best possible manner, for that is what our
Merciful Lord has commanded us to do.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran: Chapter 16, Surah An-Nahl Ayat 125:Invite
to the way of your Lord with wisdom and excellent admonition and argue with
people in the best manner. Your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His
Way and who is Rightly guided.
Sometimes it might take only a couple of minutes to make someone
understand, and sometimes it might take a lifetime, and the person might never
accept Islam! Allah has made it our
duty only to invite mankind to the Truth; to guide them or leave them astray,
is in the Sole Power and Domain of Allah Alone! Allah has given each
individual intelligence and a free will to choose whatever path he/she
wills to take unto their Lord. We
cannot, and should not, force our beliefs onto anyone, no matter how close they
are, or how much we love them, and how much we want them to be guided aright so
that they may be saved from the torment of Hell Fire! It is not up to us to guide someone to the
Truth; our duty is only to invite them in the best possible manner.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 28 Surah Qasas verse 56:You cannot guide
whom you love, but Allah guides whomever He Pleases. And He best knows those who would accept
guidance.
Thus, my beloved sister in
Islam, be patient, and constantly supplicate Allah to help you help your mother
and your relatives to understand the Truth from the Glorious Quran. Be rest assured, that the All Seeing, All Hearing Lord is
watching over everything that we do in His Cause; and Allah Subhanah
has promised to help those who help in His Cause. If Allah Wills, your patience and wisdom
will be rewarded one day, and the people you so love to accept and understand
the Truth, with the help and Will of Allah, will leave the practices of shirk,
and come to the sole worship of the One Lord Alone.
Invite them to the Truth of the Quran as long as you live; and if they don’t ever believe,
then at least you have done your duty unto them to the best of your
ability. Allah Subhanah
will never question us how many people did we convert to the deen of Truth; but He will question us whether we did try
to invite them or not. To guide someone
to Islam, or leave them astray, is in the Sole Power and Domain of Allah Alone.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
