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Why should you, a young Muslim, be helping to bring your friends closer to Allâh?
After all, you've got your own struggles to deal with: trying to explain to hostile teachers why you pray, Hijab discrimination, standing up in class when the professor attacks Islâm, dealing with parents who think you've gone nuts because you're growing a beard, or all the other difficulties faced by a number of practicing Muslim youth?
Islâm was never meant to be an individualistic faith, reserved for the "chosen few". Muslims have a duty to spread the Deen; and practicing Muslim youth, whether beginners, activists or leaders, have a crucial role to play.
"Allâh has put them in a position that perhaps no one else is in," notes Sheema Khan, former Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA) advisor for eastern Canada.
"They have the means to communicate with their peers, they have an understanding of what they're going through plus they have the guidance of Islâm."
Who is your childhood friend going to listen to? Who is your childhood friend, who would rather spend Fridays at MacDonald's than the Masjid, or your classmate who is Muslim in name and only knows that "Muslims don't eat pork" going to listen to: the nice Imam of the Masjid who would freak out if he saw the way they were dressed and talked or you who may have grown up with them, joked with them, or see them everyday in school?
The answer is obvious: You.
Don't panic. Here are some tips and advice which can help. These are advices from other Muslims, many of whom have been there and done that:
Seringkali, orang kufar mencoba mengganggu iman kita dengan bertanya: Mengapa Qur'an sering guna kata KAMI untuk ALLAH? Bukankah kami itu banyak? Apakah itu bermakna Qur'an pun mengakui Tuhan itu lebih dari 1? Bagaimana kita menjelaskannya? Mungkin kita juga pernah bertanya demikian?
