Some UM students, Leon and I attended a 'dakwah' dinner in KL on 18th of September 2004... It's nice to get evangelised once in a while. Got a free copy of Quran, and bought a dakwah-apologetics training DVD. (no contest compared to STR.org)
There was a Quran recital at the start and Q&A session at the end. Even an 'altar call' thrown in for good measures. The speaker seems to count more responses than I can see hands raised. He could learn a lot from Dr Prince Guneratnam in that area.
I like the more dignified, less hand-wringing approach though.
Profiles of our speaker that night:
http://islamicsydney.com/
"Shaykh Khalid Yasin, a former Christian, is the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI); a premier organisation dedicated to the work of Daæ´ah. He has studied the Arabic language in Madinah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo, Egypt and has had many mentors and teachers who tutored him in Fiqh us-Sunnah, Fiqh us-Seerah, Islamic History andthe memorisation and recitation of the Holy Quran. In the past ten years, the ITI has delivered more than 5000 persons to Islam and an additional 1,476 since the September 11 Attacks. Shaykh Khalid Yasin delivered a lecture in Saudi Arabia in 1994 titled The Purpose of Life?, which resulted in 43 persons accepting Islam on that very night. Khalid Yasin constantly tours the world delivering lectures aimed at removing distortions about Islam and Muslims, conducting
Da抴ah Training Courses, and providing new Muslims with a specially designed Islamic Training Program. Khalid Yasin is committed to raising the conciousness of the Muslims to fulfill the responsibility of Dakwah and the establishment of Islamic revival,Insha'Allah."
There was a Quran recital at the start and Q&A session at the end. Even an 'altar call' thrown in for good measures. The speaker seems to count more responses than I can see hands raised. He could learn a lot from Dr Prince Guneratnam in that area.
I like the more dignified, less hand-wringing approach though.
Profiles of our speaker that night:
http://islamicsydney.com/
"Shaykh Khalid Yasin, a former Christian, is the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI); a premier organisation dedicated to the work of Daæ´ah. He has studied the Arabic language in Madinah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo, Egypt and has had many mentors and teachers who tutored him in Fiqh us-Sunnah, Fiqh us-Seerah, Islamic History andthe memorisation and recitation of the Holy Quran. In the past ten years, the ITI has delivered more than 5000 persons to Islam and an additional 1,476 since the September 11 Attacks. Shaykh Khalid Yasin delivered a lecture in Saudi Arabia in 1994 titled The Purpose of Life?, which resulted in 43 persons accepting Islam on that very night. Khalid Yasin constantly tours the world delivering lectures aimed at removing distortions about Islam and Muslims, conducting
Da抴ah Training Courses, and providing new Muslims with a specially designed Islamic Training Program. Khalid Yasin is committed to raising the conciousness of the Muslims to fulfill the responsibility of Dakwah and the establishment of Islamic revival,Insha'Allah."
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Maybe there's hope yet!