Ask: Have I truly submitted? Is my prayer a meeting with Allah or a physical exercise? Is my charity a transaction or a purification? Is my fasting a hunger or a liberation?
But also: “Whoever calls to misguidance will have a sin similar to those who follow him.” dawah ilallah
Allah is calling them. You are just a shadow, a pen, a breeze that passes. The moment you think you are guiding someone, you have lost the spirit of tawhid. “Indeed, you do not guide whom you love, but Allah guides whom He wills.” (Qur’an 28:56) So call, but call as a beggar, not a king. Call as one who is still learning, not one who has arrived. Call as one who is also being called—every single day—to return to Allah. O you who believe, save yourselves and your families from a Fire… (Qur’an 66:6) Start there. Save yourself. Then let your light spread—not with force, but with the quiet radiance of a soul that has found its Home. And in that radiance, others will see what they have been searching for all along. Ask: Have I truly submitted
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to those who follow him, without diminishing their rewards in the least.” (Muslim) Is my fasting a hunger or a liberation
The tongue is an amanah. Speak as if every word will be weighed on the Day when even the skin will testify. The deepest secret of dawah ilallah is this: you are not really calling anyone.
But the heart does not open through argument. It opens through love, through beauty, through silence, through consistency.