Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Using cinema for dawah work

“Can we do dawah work by using cinema, movies, and documentaries as the medium? What is your advice to that?”Asked by Fayyaz, Mumbai

He answers at 51:27 in The Method of Planning · 53 sec

His answer, in his own words
51:27
Maulana, agla sawal Mumbai se kiya hai Fayyaz sahib ne, aur unhon ne aap se poocha hai ke Maulana sahib, can we do DAWA work by using cinema, movies, and documentaries as the medium? What is your advice to that? sirf literature phailaiye, aur literature ki baat ko aap jo hamare jo taqreeren hain, un ko phailaiye.
51:51
hamari jo kitaben hain, is ko phailaiye. phailane ke tareeqe different ho sakte hain, aur koi cheez aap karen ge to woh to bohat se log kar chuke hain, aur koi result nahin nikla, koi natija nahin. hamare kaam ko phailaiye, aap khud se aap jo karen ge to woh to bohat se log kar
52:11
chuke hain, koi natija nahin nikla. No result at all. Maulana, agla sawal Jammu se kya hai Zubair sahab ne, aur unhon ne aap se poocha hai ke how can we develop wise thinking as bad planning is a result of not developing wise thinking in ourselves? Maulana sahib, as you rightly said today, that we are not realistic in approach.
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