Assalamu Alaikum Brother, Are you embarrassed of Islam? Are you embarrassed of the sunnah of our beloved Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wassalam)? Because one only hides those things which one is embarrassed of. When someone is in love with something, then they want the entire world to know. Alhamdullillah, we Muslims love Allah, we love His beloved Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wassalam), we love the Sunnah of our beloved Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wassalam), we love the Quran and we love the religion of Islam. What you are calling ambiguous Islamic rulings, are not ambiguous at all. There are a bunch of people who consider themselves scholars, who paint these clear rulings as ambiguous. Yet for those who have sound traditional knowledge and who have spent their entire life studying, teaching and propagating Islam under scholars with proper sanad, be they from Arab or Ajam, these rulings are as clear as daylight for them. And what you are calling "deobandi dawah efforts" which according to you is ineffective, is the dawah which has had the greatest effect worldwide. Did you know that it is only one deobandi scholar whose students/khalifas have built and are running madrasas in over five countries? The students of these students are propagating the real Deen, not the watered down "Deen" that the neo-scholars are propagating, and many Muslims have been guided through them, and many non-Muslims have accepted Islam on their hands. And this is only one scholar, there are many others. And it is the "Deobandi dawah efforts" through the Tableegh effort that has revived the dead hearts of millions of Muslims, who were embarrassed of being known or being perceived as Muslim, but now they want the world to know that they are Muslim and they want everyone to enter this beautiful religion. We should strive our best to act completely according to the Sunnah, just like the Sahaba (radi Allahu anhum) did. Islam spread because they acted on all aspects of Deen, not just what pleased others. If we will be embarrassed of our religion, then how will we face Allah on the Day of Judgment? Is it that Allah who is perfect has given us an imperfect religion, that we need to hide some of it? If we will be embarrassed of the Sunnah of our Beloved Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wassalam), then how will we face him? Should we bend our religion to please others? Or should we bend ourselves to fully enter into Islam? music, dress-code, democracy, hudud laws in the context of a nation state, monogamy, negation of authoritarianism, socio-conversational/occupational inter-mingling of sexes, men-women equality So do you believe in part of the Scripture and disbelieve in part? Then what is the recompense for those who do that among you except disgrace in worldly life; and on the Day of Resurrection they will be sent back to the severest of punishment. And Allah is not unaware of what you do. Surat Al-Baqarah, verse 85. And the usual remark of “causing division” is a typical remark used against those who want to hold strongly to the truth. In that case, the Prophets were the first ones to cause division. This division is called separating the truth from falsehoold. Those who do not understand, call it division. Those who understand, call it propagating the truth. Propagating Islam has its etiquettes which is covered mainly in Surah Al-Araf. If we were even slightly familiar with our Quran, we would not have such backward ideas of bending Islam or hiding it to propagate it. What Allah requires us to do is to propagate the truth (Haqq), and that is as far as our responsibility goes, and guidance is upto Allah. Is Allah not watching our every move? Is he not watching the non-Muslims that we present Islam to? There is so much that needs to be said on this topic, that the heart weeps when your opening posts are read. P.S. And our "Master" is our Beloved Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wassalam), and noone else.