Da‘wah is the call to Islam. In the following verse of the Quran, da‘wah is referred to as great jihad:

‘Do great jihad with the help of it (the Quran).’ – Quran 25: 52

Jihad is essentially a peaceful struggle for a noble cause. According to the above verse, doing da‘wah with the help of the Quran is called the ‘great jihad.’ Why is da‘wah the great jihad, or great struggle? Because it is a universal mission. It is a most serious task. It engages one’s entire capacities throughout one’s whole life. Every time one is faced with intellectual challenges, one is bound to give a strong response.

Thus, da‘wah becomes an extensive course of action through which one’s personality develops day by day, until one reaches the highest level of intellectual and spiritual development.
Iman (faith) and da‘wah are two basic levels of Islam. If iman is a superior ideology, da‘wah is a superior course of action. Iman purifies one’s mind and soul, while da‘wah imbues one’s personality with a sublime probity. One, who adopts Islam as a universal mission, in both the ideological and practical sense, is morally activated to the maximum possible extent and this course, slowly but surely, leads him to reach the highest pinnacle of humanity.

Stating the relationship between man and true religion the Quran says:

Devote yourself single-mindedly to the Religion. And follow the nature [constitution] as made by God, that nature in which He has created mankind. There is no altering the creation of God. That is the right religion. But most people do not realize it (30:30)

This means that every human being is created by God to be capable—as a matter of his natural constitution—of accepting the religion of truth. The unity of God is a truth, arrived at intuitively, and is plain to every man of common sense, unless he perverts himself by the different prejudices, which he receives from his environment. Islam is thus the natural religion that a child left to itself would develop. A western writer, Lady Evelyn Cobbold (d. 1963), has rightly said: “Islam is the religion of common sense.”

When this potential is realized, it results in the emergence of a new man. What kind of character this new man possesses is made clear by the following Hadith:

     “Nine things the Lord has commanded me:
      Fear of God in private and in public;
     Justness, whether in anger or in calmness;
     Moderation in both poverty and affluence;
     Joining hands with those who break away from me,
     and giving to those who deprive me;
     and forgiving those who wrong me;
    and making of my silence meditation;
    and my words remembrance of God;
    and taking a lesson from my observation.”
   (Razin)
This Hadith gives a complete picture of the man Islam wants to build.

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