Difficulty doing dawah in consumer culture
“Since four days I have been in Delhi. I am very sad to see the Delhiites. They are totally trapped in consumer and entertainment culture. They sleep late and get up late at 12 in the morning. I try to do dawah work, but nobody is ready to listen.”Asked by سید محسن بلال, سہارن پور
He answers at 1:06:03 in Age Of Consumerism I · 2 min 53 sec
1:06:03Maulana, agla sawal Saharanpur se hai, Syed Mohsin Bilal Sahab ka. Unhon ne likha hai: "Since four days, I have been in Delhi. I am very sad to see the Delhiites. They are totally trapped in consumer and entertaining culture. They sleep late and they get up late at 12 in the morning. I try to do dawah work, but nobody is ready to listen. they think they are intelligent. So how how to give message to these kind of intelligent people?
1:06:39dekhiye, aisa hundred percent nahi hai. aap seekher ko talash kijiye, seekher isi mein ek shakhs seekher hoga. misalan mein bata doon aap ko aaj hi ka experience, aaj ka hamare paas ek sahab aaye jo senior professor, woh ab retire ho gaye hain. unke yaani woh eighties ke late eighties mein hain, woh uss waqt to woh khud bhi English mein kitabein likhi hain. unhone to hamare paas aaye, ab taqreeban der tak rahe, woh hamare kai saathi bhi wahan maujood the.
1:07:27to hamare haan kitabein unko di gayeen aur baatein huin. ab aaj hi unka message aaya, aaj hi bahut ajeeb o ghareeb message. aap bataiye kya message hai? ah, well, he gave a call in the morning and he said that i been going through Maulana literature and i must say that its very rich and very comprehensive and daily i am getting you know something out of the literature. in fact, ah, he finished one book yesterday itself and he was saying that i will continue my study and when i reach back home back because he is in this travel, i am going to write a letter to Maulana sahib. and one additional thing he said, what he said that i want to congratulate Maulana sahib because there are lot of youngsters involved in this mission.
1:08:13so he was very happy and very moved by Maulana sahib literature. dekhein, asal baat kya hai? aap bheed ko koi dekhte hain, yaani sab ko le kar koi sochte hain. aap individual ko le kar sochiye, individual isi ko mein seekher keh raha hoon. agar aap bheed ko le kar sochenge to hamesha aap ko mayoosi milegi, frustration. lekin individual to hamesha maujood hote hain, un se kabhi dunya khali nahi hoti. to aap ka target individual hona chahiye, na ke bheed.
1:08:50tab aap aisi baat nahi farmayenge. Maulana, agla sawal bidar karnataka se hai, yunusuddin sahib ka. unhone likha hai: "Maulana, aksar log aap ki tehreer par yeh aitraaz karte hain ke aap anbiya aur sahaba par