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Dawah Leaders Guide 0914
Dawah Leaders Guide 0914
Dawah Leaders Guide 0914
LEADER S
GUIDE
People skills
A key part of your role as a dawah leader is to manage your local dawah team. A part of managing people
is helping other people grow and develop by giving them roles and responsibilities. The leader has a
strong personal relationship with his team and understands each members strengths and weaknesses.
You will also be communicating with others, such as the mosque committee or the local police. So you
will need to be able to talk to anyone in an effective way. Another important aspect of dealing with people
is building trust through having integrity. It is important that you do what you say and if you are not able
to meet a commitment you have made, then to communicate that and deal with the consequences.
Organisational skills
You will need to have basic organisational and IT skills as you may be involved in creating rotas and
small dawah projects. You also will need to be able to build a strong team and elevate the team by
delegating tasks.
Step 3: Action
Step 2: Knowledge
Those who have been motivated will then need to be educated
on how to do dawah effectively and also have the correct
understanding of how to look after new Muslims in an effective
way so that they become strong practicing Muslims.
Once they have the knowledge on how to give dawah, you will then need
to create the avenues for them to take action in calling people to Allah.
Organise the team
The Dawah Leader is the
Ameer and will be in charge of
the dawah team.
AMEER
VICE
AMEER
Teaching a local
dawah workshop
Arranging a Call
of Duty (COD)
dawah training
workshop
View online
training videos
and podcast
AMEERAH
VICE
AMEERAH
NEW MUSLIM
AMEER
REGULAR Duaat
(BROTHERS
X10 MIN)
NEW MUSLIM
AMEERAH
REGULAR Duaat
(SISTERS
X10 MIN)
Team communication
Arranging a Now
Ready to Grow
(NRG) New Muslim
development
training course
More information
can be found at
www.missiondawah.com
Creating an
e-mail
group / list
Creating a
Whatsapp
group
Having a
monthly
team dinner
Having a
monthly team
meeting
Organising a
regular Islamic
class for the
team to attend
Dawah activities
Dawah Table
STEP 1
It is vital that you, as the dawah leader, contact them three days and also the night before
they are scheduled to go out to do dawah. This can be done through e-mail, text message,
messaging them in a Whatsapp group or by calling them.
STEP 2
Get dawah material and a table banner. You may also need a
plastic sheet to cover the table and the materials in case it rains.
If a daee is unable to attend their scheduled date, they should inform you a minimum of 3
days before and they should try to arrange for a replacement.
STEP 3
STEP 4
Set up the table and the banner, place the materials on the table in a
presentable way and keep one or two people behind the table while the
rest of the team does street dawah away from the table.
For regular dawah activates it is very important to create a rota and get commitment from
each da ee on attending agreed dates. This is to make sure the dawah happens consistently.
Street Dawah
Be aware not to place the table on a private property unless you ask the owners
permission. It may also be handy to get permission from the council to put the stall
in that location, but this is not always necessary.
Mini Dawah Mission
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
Give a motivational reminder to your team on why you are going out.
STEP 4
STEP 5
STEP 6
After the dawah session, go back to the mosque with the team
and have a debrief on what went well and the lessons they
learnt. You may also decide to go out for dinner to help build
brotherhood within the team.
A mini dawah mission is great to create a buzz for the dawah and also fairly easy
to organise. The mini dawah mission is a one day mission which includes a short
dawah training workshop in the morning with a focus on teaching how to do street
dawah with the GORAP method.
Thereafter the students will be taken out to a busy area to give dawah after the training.
STEP 1
Find a basic venue for training such as a mosque or a hall. Also arrange
for an area where you will go to give dawah. The area must be easy to
get to and also have a good traffic of people. It is also recommended
that the dawah area is as close as possible to the mosque so that any
new Muslims can be taken to the mosque and taught to pray straight
STEP 2
STEP 3
STEP 4
STEP 5
STEP 6
Friday
Saturday
SUNDAY
The next step is to create the avenues for dawah to be done on a regular
basis. You may decide to start off small and then gradually build up. This
will depend on the amount of dedicated duaat you have.
STEP 1
Requirements:
a) A venue to stay over from Friday evening to Sunday evening. This venue should
have toilets, showers, kitchen and a clean and quiet sleeping area. This venue should
also be easily accessible via public transport and there should be adequate (free/
inexpensive) parking available throughout the dawah mission.
b) A good sound system should be available during the talks and the Dawah training
workshops if needed.
c) There are tables and chairs available for the training. If tables and chairs cannot
be provided then it is possible that the workshop can be done sitting on the floor with
mini tables that are used by children during Quran classes.
STEP 2
Once you have agreed the venue and the date, the next step
is to advertise the dawah mission.
Online
social media
E-mails
Posters
Text
messages
STEP 3
Confirm who will attend the mission from your team and
select people to deliver the talks and the workshop. It is
also important to select a competent Vice Ameer and to
send all contact details to the local organisers.
STEP 4
STEP 5
During the mission have regular team meetings and give them a
short motivational reminder on key points, including:
- Keeping their intentions pure
- Creating brotherhood amongst the team and with the local community
(talk to people one to one in the mosque to come to dawah training)
- Using the time in the mosque to worship Allah and to grow spiritually.
Avoid too much laughing, joking and banter.
- Respect mosque etiquettes
- Listen to the Ameer because whoever disobeys the Ameer is disobeying Allah
- Not following the guidelines may lead to you being banned from
future missions
An example of an objective could be to help develop 5 active dawah leaders and teams
within Brazil during the 2014 Brazil football world cup. This can be done by:
STEP 1
Select a country
STEP 2
Build contacts
The next step is to start building relationships and inspiring others within the country
to be a part of the dawah mission. Select a representative from the country to help
and guide you during the mission.
STEP 3
Get a plan together on what you are going to do during your time in the country. For example,
you may decide to travel to 5 key areas and do a mini dawah day within each area to help
organise a new dawah team. You will also need to confirm the total cost of the mission.
Once you have a strong team set up you can also arrange
an international dawah mission. The objective of an
international dawah mission is to help develop new or
existing dawah leaders to create a mass movement of
dawah within their countries.
STEP 4
FUNDRAISE
You can fundraise for the mission by asking friends and family to finance the mission.
STEP 5
Get things prepared, including tickets, visas, vaccines and also dawah materials that you will be using.
A key aim for a dawah team is to get shahadahs from people who will
grow to become strong Muslims and will also join the local dawah team.
MUSLIM NOW
Muslim Now is a department of iERA focusing on
helping the new Muslim to grow. It is important that you
introduce them to the Muslim Now website where they
can benefit from the Muslim Now services.
Shahadah cards
The new shahadahs details can be taken down on a shahadah card which can be ordered
through the Mission Dawah website. The shahadah cards have more details on Muslim
Now which can be given to the new Muslim.
NRG Training
The Muslim Now department has developed a one-day training course dedicated to teach
how to effectively empower new Muslims at the very beginning of their journey and help them
to build a solid foundation of Islam in their lives to become strong believers.
The aim is not only to get a shahadah but for that new Muslim to
enter Jannah. The duaat and the new Muslims need to understand
that becoming a Muslim is not just about believing in Allah and that
Muhammad (pbuh) is the messenger.
Rather, accepting Islam is
accepting that you are going
to live your life following the
guidance that Allah has sent.
The Christian doctrine of belief is
that you only need to believe that
Jesus died for your sins and you
will be forgiven and entered into
Paradise. Many religions have
a culture that you only need to
believe that it is the truth to go
to Paradise. However, Islam does
not only deal with the internal
beliefs but also the external
actions. The new Muslims need
to understand that they will be
living their life in accordance to
Gods guidance, not just believing
something in their heart without
taking any action.
Many duaat get shahadahs,
however due to the haste of
getting the shahadah, the new
SHAHADAH APP
The new Muslims details can be taken down online via the Shahadah App which can be
found at MissionDawah.com/shahadah. The app will take you through the process of
capturing key information and will allow you to order the welcome pack for them there
and then. You can also use the app to manage all your new Muslims and as a Dawah
Leader you can view all the shahadahs that your team gets.
As the team grows and gets more experience, the members will come
across more intellectual issues that they may need to tackle, such as
common atheist contentions and other attacks against Islam.
For this, the iERA research department has developed courses and
webinars for duaat to gain more advanced knowledge in the dawah.
Details of these courses can be found on the Mission Dawah website.
It is important for the local team to have brothers and sisters focused and dedicated to
help and support any new Muslims. If the daee is unable to look after the new Muslim,
for example if the daee is going abroad or if they are of the opposite gender, then the
new Muslim can be passed onto the New Muslim team who will teach the new Muslim
how to pray and how to become a practicing Muslim.
The New Muslim team should do the following:
This is a great way to spend quality time with the new Muslims and for them to
meet other people in the same situation. You can also invite other non-Muslims
who are interested in Islam
There will be other dawah campaigns and projects that iERAs One
Reason will be developing, such as the Neighbours dawah project
or the Olympics dawah campaigns.
You may also wish to develop your own dawah projects, such as door to door knocking, open days or
presentations to the public. We recommend you do a quarterly dawah campaign; however, this can be
done as frequently as you want.
Finally, many dawah teams fade away due to lack of motivation, passion
and vision. The difference between a team that fades away and one that is
successful is to do with the leader.
You, as the leader, must organise regular activities and training to motivate the duaat and to also
regularly bring in new duaat. It is also vital for you to develop other leaders to help you so that if you
are away, the dawah will still carry on.
June
July
August
September
October
November
ACTIVITY
January
February
March
April
May
December
So you have a strong, effective dawah team. Now what? You can
become an informal dawah community organiser. You can do this by
taking the following actions:
Resources
Dawah Materials/ Dawah Clothing: www.missiondawah.com/shop
STEP 1
Develop leaders
Develop other members of the team to become the Ameer of the dawah team.
STEP 2
Power Analysis
Do research into the area on other mosques, Islamic activities or dawah teams to get
an idea of where you can set up another dawah team or support existing teams.
Also, look out for influential individuals who have the power to create change within
the community, with whom you can build positive relationships.
STEP 3
Go through the same cycle and develop another effective dawah team. This cycle can be
done many times so that you help develop many effective dawah teams.
As you grow and get more experience as an informal dawah community organiser, you will
get the opportunity to apply to become a formal iERA dawah community organiser.
- Shahadah App
- Dawah Training Podcast
- Request a Dawah Course
- Request a Dawah Mission
- Pocket Dawah Manual
- Online Dawah Training
- Advanced Dawah Training
- Step by Step local New Muslim course
Book a speaker:
email: bookaspeaker@iera.org
or go to www.iera.org
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