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Why is Deoband and Deobandism being looked at as some sort of failure? The Salafi da'wah has been more successful than Sufis so are we now to say that the Salafis are right?

And as brother Dawud Israel has noticed, look at who the mureed of this shaykh is. The shaykh seems to have an axe to grind!

As for the criticism itself, everyone agrees that da'wah to the non-Muslims is essential but is that at the expense of our own imaan and deen? We have to start with ourselves, then our families, and so on. How does he propose Muslims give da'wah? If he thinks that tasawwuf has been responsible for getting many converts, can he tell us why the Sufi-haters are at the forefront of da'wah around the Western world?