Below are two non-Da'awah examples as contained in

Below are two non-Da'awah examples as contained in
Kettani's"Dawah among Muslim Minorities".

First Example. Mr. X was born in a small town of Australia, the
son of Muslim parents who came from an Eastern European
country. There was no organised Muslim community in the village
where he was born. He grew, therefore, with a vague feeling of
being Muslim, and was for any practical purpose very much
assimilated into his non-Muslim environment. More specifically,
he liked dating and drinking. He eventually married a
non-Muslim lady and had from her five children. As they grew
older, Mr. X became more and more interested in teaching them
Islam and bringing them up as Muslims. When the family moved to
the capital of the state for a better job, he discovered the
existence of an Islamic Association and a small Islamic
Centre.

That day he came home laughing like a child with joy, informing
his children that they will be educated in Islam. He joined the
Association, brought his children to Islamic classes regularly.
His wife converted to Islam and became active in the ladies
auxiliary. Mr. X kept his drinking habit, however, did his best
not to drink in public. At the same time, he learnt how to pray
for the first time and vowed to try to be good example for his
children. In the executive committee there was a young student
from an Asiatic Muslim country who came to the executive
committee by a different route. Mr. S grew in a very devout
Muslim family and environment, he learnt the Qur'an by heart.
He prayed ever since he was seven years old and never committed
adultery nor drank in his life. He was an all out and the best
example of the practising Muslim. He came to Australia to study
and discovered the Muslim Association. He joined it and
eventually reached the executive committee. He somehow disliked
Mr. X who prayed awkwardly, wore a hat and behaved like a
non-Muslim. He even suspected that he drank since he smelt
alcohol from time to time.

The catastrophe occurred when Mr. S, while walking home from
the University, discovered Mr. X entering a pub. In the next
meeting of the executive committee, Mr. S attacked Mr. X
publicly as the worst type of Muslim, humiliated him to the
point that Mr. X was in tears. He was never seen in the Islamic
Centre, nor anyone has ever seen his wife or children!

Second Example. City M is a small town on the North-eastern
Coast of Australia. One hundred years ago, the British brought
from the eastern shore of Java [in present day Indonesia] a
boat loaded with indentured labourers for the sugar plantation.
The labourers happened to be Muslims. But they were peasants
and did not know much about Islam. They were able to pass on
some of their identity to their children, but after one hundred
years and four generations, Islam became only a vague memory in
the minds of their descendants today. Most of these, who
numbered 250 families, became members of Christian
denominations. Due to the effort of a Muslim from another city,
a group still identifying as Muslim was gathered and an Islamic
Society was established. Eventually, after two years of hard
work, 20% of the descendants of the Muslims declared themselves
as Muslims again and started the hard work of learning through
books and pamphlets the basic tenets of Islam. They started to
learn how to pray and for the first time in the history of the
city, Juma prayer was held regularly. The community was trying
very hard to bring back to Islam the remaining 80%.

As soon as the existence of the M Muslim association was known,
a missionary Muslim group arrived. The whole community was
overjoyed. They housed them, helped them, and fed them. But
what did they do to them? How to pray? No. The Seerah of the
Prophet (peace be on him)? No. How to fast? No. The halal and
the haram? No. What then? Well, they were mad at the men
because they did not have any beards and they did not dress in
long robes. They also told them that women should not appear
in your gatherings, etc. When the visitors left, the community
remained perplexed and the weakest among them started
questioning whether they really wanted to remain Muslims?

Dr. M.A. Kettani's article "Dawah among Muslim Minorities" is
in WORLD MUSLIM LEAGUE JOURNAL, Vol.vii, No.5, March 1980,
pp.31-39.