Da’awa is compassion

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah,
peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family.
My brothers and sisters, one of the things that I have noticed sometimes is that
especially for people who are reverts or who come into Islam or realize that they are Muslims
and then they start practicing, is a level of arrogance.
Where they start believing that they are better than their erstwhile friends,
they are better than other people around them, and so on.
Now this is something which is highly regrettable.
And so I thought let me speak a bit about this.
The key thing to understand is that hidayah or guidance is from Allah.
It is from Allah.
And if somebody starts practicing Islam,
it is not because of something good about them
or something special that they have done or some way in which they are special.
It is just that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
decided to bless them and so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed them.
Now, therefore the thing to do, the correct attitude is an attitude of great humility and humbleness
to say that, oh Allah, I really don't know.
I mean, I know I don't deserve this, but you chose to give it to me.
And therefore I am most grateful to you.
And then what I need to do is to try my best.
I need to try my best to live up to that.
So if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has blessed me,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has caused me to be guided to Him.
Then what we need to do and think is to say,
well, let me not lose this position of favor with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now, therefore the focus must be on yourself to say,
okay, Alhamdulillah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was merciful on me,
merciful to me, and Allah Ta'ala guided me to Himself.
And therefore I am going to make sure that I do not lose this position of favor with Allah.
Now, the way to,
to keep the position of favor is to focus on two very important things.
To obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in every single thing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded us.
And to do that in the way of Rasulullah , which is the Sunnah.
So I obey Allah the way the Rasulullah obeyed Allah.
Not according to however I felt and I believed,
not however I think and not according to some YouTube videos,
videos that I'm watching, none of that.
I will focus and I will,
I will, you know, be with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and I will obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the way of Muhammad Rasulullah ,
because that is the only way which is certified,
which is absolutely sure to be acceptable to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The thing to understand with regard to dawah is that dawah is,
is the sign of true compassion.
And the biggest sign of true compassion.
Think about this.
If a person feeds one homeless person one time, right?
Just one meal, a homeless person who's need,
who need a food, somebody gives them one meal.
Now, obviously that one meal will not last him forever.
It lasts him for that one time.
You know,
the next meal time he or she is ready to eat again.
The next day they are ready to eat again.
So all you have done is to alleviate their difficulty or their suffering for a short period of time.
But anyone looking at that will say,
Swa Allah, what a wonderful kind person this is.
They have helped this person and they are kind to that person.
That's just for a one time thing which happened one time.
How about somebody who is working,
who is concerned about,
who is shedding tears in the night for that,
who is doing their best to save someone from the hellfire,
which is permanent problems,
permanent suffering.
Somebody who is working to free someone from permanent suffering,
not something which is temporary, right?
Now, how about that?
Now, this is why dawah,
inviting people to Islam,
is the greatest,