Without Loudness in Words - Role Modelling The Right Way

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People are respected by what they do and not really so much by what they say. Because “talk is cheap”, and with the internet, it’s become alot cheaper. A mere copy and paste here and there, removing the signatures and adding your own here and there, and you have your desired results.

The real proof is in the actions. When inspected, the person practices what he preaches. I’m sure you’ve met these people; you can hardly ever recall them ever uttering away advice verbally, and yet you respect them somehow, you treasure them as persons of wisdom. There is also the other side… those who frequently advice people with a salvo of dalils, who are ever eager to be role models but yet sadly have their own tribulation by not breathing to life their words by practicing them. Advice AND follow what you say.

Make no mistake though; preaching is easy. However preaching effectively isn’t. Let’s try our best and put in more effort to preach to ourselves first, to do so without harshness. Just look to our Sirah to see how Islam was spread… how first years were concentrated on getting the fundamentals right and in secret… how only later when the Ummah was strong in their own characters did they then begin preaching far and wide.

Effective preaching comes when you live and breathe Islam as much as you say.

Without any active marketing, others will listen, not by your words…

But by your character.

And remember your Lord within yourself, humbly and with fear without loudness in words in the mornings, and in the afternoons and be not of those who are neglectful.

[7:205]

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