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Jan 03, 2025
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British Muslim Brotherhood-Affiliated Islamic Scholar Anas Altikriti: Dawah Is A Beautiful Thing, You Can Correct The Lives Of The Entire World; In Britain We Created 'Alcohol Free Zones' By Convincing Locals It Was Good For The Elderly, Without Even Mentioning The Word Islam

#11765 | 02:13
Source: Online Platforms - "Safi Bros podcast on YouTube"

In a January 3, 2025 episode of the Safi Bros podcast, British Islamic scholar Anas Altikriti, CEO and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Cordoba Foundation, discussed dawah, calling to Islam, in the West. He said that the message, values, and teachings of Islam address the problems of the entire world, correcting and reforming life. He added that by spreading dawah, you have a chance of reforming and changing life for the entire world. Altikriti said that Gaza has given Muslims an opportunity and audience for dawah. He said that “ramming” Islamic values down the throats of people is unnecessary, but rather that Islamic values are in their best interests. Altikriti gave an example of creating “alcohol free zones” by convincing local council members that this would benefit the elderly in the areas, without even mentioning the word “Islam” or saying this is haram.

Anas Altikriti: "The message of Islam is an incredible source of empowerment. Because of its values and because of its teachings in addressing the problems of everyone around us. The entire world of correcting and reforming life.

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"You have the potential of changing and reforming life for everyone. And we call it, you know, and we use it to the term dawah [calling to Islam]. The dawah is so expansive if we really set our minds to it. And it's a really beautiful thing.

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"Gaza is a trigger, is a motivator., is a thing that gave us an opportunity, gave us an audience. But our pursuit is that we build a future that's far better than the one that we are leaving, we are dealing with. And in order to do that, we need to instill sets of values. Now as Muslims we say these are integral to, to what we believe in. Fine, but we don't need to ram them down people's throats as being 'this is Islamic.' I don't need to do that. I just need to tell people...

"I mean for instance I always give the example in Britain of when we started many years ago, about probably 20 or 30 years ago, we started with local councils and with local people talking about the creation of no alcohol, or alcohol free zones in the UK. Why? Because the elderly were being bothered by the sounds and the crashing of glass and such, which late at night on Saturdays and Sundays. So basically to allow for those people, those elderly, to rest. So we don't need to talk about how alcohol is haram [forbidden], we don't need to talk about how alcohol is haram, we don't need to talk about all this. What we need to tell people 'listen, it's not in your best interest.'

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"So all of the sudden people are thinking 'you know, that's a good idea.' And you're not mentioning the word of Islam."

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