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**JonatonM** · 07-04-2010, 04:55 AM

Saathis are supposed to find solutions for the things which are holding people back from going out in the path of Allah. For example you can't take enough holidays, so they'll encourage you to take unpaid ones. There are as well some restrictions which are very difficult to solve, for example very sick parents to care about. Now, comments like "How can you come to help to your mother, if the angel of death appears to her? Huh?" are totally inappropriate. If someone is not accepting a quite simple solutions to his hindrance, then it's a sign that he does not really want to. And there's no other way than encouragment (targheeb) to make some one want to go out. That's actually the first step. Elders say, that if people (mostly in a collective gathering) are not ready to go out, then one should convince them of the fact that Allah is the Nourisher and the Sustainer (sustained Yunus

in fish and Ibrahim

in fire etc.) and how Allah honoured the Sahabah for being all the time ready to go out (story of Hanzala etc.). So, there's no real forcing. Really only three steps: 1. Encourage them to make intention. 2. Help them solve their problems. 3. Make du'a for them.

And a humble request at fellow Muslims (especially those active in the Internet) listen to encouragement by an open heart as Allah may turn it into a good direction. Don't sit their with the glass the other way around, just because you think you know 1 or 2 things about how the "TJ" as you call it works. Don't get paranoid like: "Oh no, he'll make me tashkeel now!" and simply wait for him to quote a weak hadith, which you'll regonize at the first place, because thanks to SF you're not as Islamic illiterate as a common tablighi. Please try to benefit from their talks and encouragements in any form. Yes, even by going out sometimes. Wallahu 'Alam.

07-04-2010, 04:55 AM	#3
JonatonM Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	Saathis are supposed to find solutions for the things which are holding people back from going out in the path of Allah. For example you can't take enough holidays, so they'll encourage you to take unpaid ones. There are as well some restrictions which are very difficult to solve, for example very sick parents to care about. Now, comments like "How can you come to help to your mother, if the angel of death appears to her? Huh?" are totally inappropriate. If someone is not accepting a quite simple solutions to his hindrance, then it's a sign that he does not really want to. And there's no other way than encouragment (targheeb) to make some one want to go out. That's actually the first step. Elders say, that if people (mostly in a collective gathering) are not ready to go out, then one should convince them of the fact that Allah is the Nourisher and the Sustainer (sustained Yunus in fish and Ibrahim in fire etc.) and how Allah honoured the Sahabah for being all the time ready to go out (story of Hanzala etc.). So, there's no real forcing. Really only three steps: 1. Encourage them to make intention. 2. Help them solve their problems. 3. Make du'a for them. And a humble request at fellow Muslims (especially those active in the Internet) listen to encouragement by an open heart as Allah may turn it into a good direction. Don't sit their with the glass the other way around, just because you think you know 1 or 2 things about how the "TJ" as you call it works. Don't get paranoid like: "Oh no, he'll make me tashkeel now!" and simply wait for him to quote a weak hadith, which you'll regonize at the first place, because thanks to SF you're not as Islamic illiterate as a common tablighi. Please try to benefit from their talks and encouragements in any form. Yes, even by going out sometimes. Wallahu 'Alam.
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