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Does enjoining good and forbidding evil cease to be an obligation for one who lacks the means and does not know the methods of da‘wah through wisdom, good counsel, and disputation?

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The methods of da'wah (preaching/calling to Islam) are three:

1. Wisdom (Al-Hikmah): To introduce the truth and is suitable for those who are responsive and seek it. 2. Good Admonition (Al-Maw'izah al-Hasanah): Combines wisdom with encouragement and deterrence, and is suitable for the heedless and neglectful. 3. Disputing in the Best Manner (Al-Jidal billati hiya ahsan): For opponents andstubborn individuals. This is for repelling aggression, not for inviting people.

Whoever is not proficient in these methods is not permitted to abandon da'wah. Rather, they should guide people to goodness with what they know from the texts of the two revelations (Qur'an and Sunnah), even if it is little, acting upon the words of Allah Almighty: "Convey what has been revealed to you from your Lord," and the hadith: "Convey from me, even if it is one verse." It is not necessary to preach using the exact wording of the revelation if one has not memorized it, but rather with what is confirmed as authentic and to what the revelation points.

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