🧱 Stop the Dawah Machine: Why Islam Must Fix Itself Before Recruiting Others
Muslims should stop doing Dawah — not because outreach is wrong, but because it’s reckless, deceptive, and morally irresponsible in the current state of Islam. The global Muslim community is bleeding followers, divided by takfirism, and propped up by a shallow, performative Dawah industry that has nothing substantial to offer converts. Before inviting others in, the house needs fixing — urgently.
🧠 Introduction: The Dawah Obsession
The modern Islamic world is obsessed with conversion. Conferences are held, debates are streamed, social media influencers boast about how many Shahadas they’ve collected like Pokémon. But nobody stops to ask the obvious:
Why are we recruiting people into a broken, confused, and often toxic system?
This post lays out the brutal logic behind the statement:
❗️**“Muslims should stop doing Dawah.”**
1️⃣ The Dawah Industry Is Shallow and Unqualified
The average public da’i today is:
Self-taught from YouTube clips,
Parroting apologetic slogans,
Often with no deep grounding in Arabic, hadith science, or theology.
They market Islam like a product—oversimplified, emotional, and sanitized for Western consumption. The result?
Converts aren’t told about abrogation, hellfire, apostasy laws, or the contradictions within the Qur'an and hadith.
They're sold an idealized fantasy Islam that doesn't exist in real life.
Conclusion: Dawah is not about truth anymore—it's marketing. And the marketers are often unqualified to sell the product.
2️⃣ Islam Is Bleeding Followers Faster Than It’s Gaining Them
“A huge portion of Muslims are apostating because they’re sick to death of the religion…”
This isn’t exaggeration—it’s backed by data:
Iran is seeing a massive secular shift.
In the Arab world, young people rank Islam low in relevance to their lives.
Ex-Muslim communities in the West are growing fast, and they're vocal.
They leave because:
The dogmas are rigid.
The rules are suffocating.
The moral claims don’t hold up under scrutiny.
The textual contradictions are undeniable.
So why bring new people in, when the old ones are walking out the back door?
3️⃣ Muslims Are Excommunicating Each Other at Alarming Rates
“We’re throwing out 20-30% of Muslims from Islam every day… You kafir, you kafir, you kafir…”
Islam today is not one religion—it’s a confederation of mutually hostile sects:
Sunnis declare Shias non-Muslim.
Salafis reject Sufis.
Reformists are called heretics.
Cultural Muslims are called hypocrites.
Converts who ask questions are dismissed as misled.
Takfir (declaring someone a non-Muslim) has become a tool of control and exclusion.
So even if a new convert walks in, they’ll be told they’re following the wrong sect, asking the wrong questions, or using the wrong translation.
❗️What kind of religion invites people in just to reject them later?
4️⃣ Converts Are Treated Like PR Props, Then Abandoned
There’s a recurring pattern:
A Western convert takes Shahada.
Muslims celebrate them as “proof” of Islam’s truth.
Once the excitement fades, they’re left alone.
They discover doctrines they weren’t told about.
They either leave disillusioned or get ostracized for nonconformity.
They enter a faith that doesn’t accept their culture, doesn’t answer their doubts, and doesn’t tolerate disagreement.
And often:
They face racial hierarchies in mosques.
They're told they must adopt Arab or Desi culture.
They're criticized for keeping their own identity.
Why bring people into a system that doesn’t know what to do with them?
5️⃣ There's Nothing for Converts… or for Muslims Themselves
“There’s nothing for Muslims, let alone for them…”
Let’s be brutally honest:
What infrastructure exists to spiritually nourish Muslims?
What institutions offer deep intellectual engagement with Islam’s contradictions?
What moral framework exists beyond external compliance and fear of hell?
The average Muslim today:
Is confused by contradictory teachings,
Has no voice in their own religion,
Is pressured to conform without thinking.
If Islam isn’t working for cradle Muslims — why do we think it’ll work for someone entering it as an outsider?
6️⃣ The Real Work: Be Better Humans First
Before Muslims preach:
Fix the sectarianism.
Address the doctrinal incoherence.
Stop using Dawah as a vanity metric.
Deal with internal abuse, hypocrisy, and authoritarianism in mosques and communities.
Instead of debating Christians, harassing atheists, or collecting converts like trophies — focus on becoming a decent, honest, self-critical community.
“Rule number one: be a good human being. Everything else will fall into place.”
Only when Islam can produce intellectually honest, morally consistent, and ethically upright human beings—will it even begin to make sense to invite others in.
🔚 Final Conclusion
Dawah today is a distraction from the real issue: Islam itself is in crisis.
Bringing people into a fractured, authoritarian, and confused religious system is not outreach — it’s entrapment.
If Muslims truly care about the faith, the most responsible act isn’t converting others.
It’s telling the Dawah machine to stop.
Clean the house.
Then — and only then — ask others to step inside.
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