Dawah activities in Kuala Lumpur
Our dawah activities in Kuala Lumpur run on a fixed weekly rhythm, so you always know where we are and when. A class on Monday, a circle on Thursday, the street on Sunday, and mosque tours whenever a visitor books one.
Everything on this page is free, observers are welcome at all of it, and none of it requires you to commit to anything beyond the session you turn up to.
A week at a glance
Monday, 6pm to 7.15pm. The weekly dawah class at PV8, Setapak. A topic, a long question and answer stretch, and the ethics of speaking to people. Sixteen seats, brothers and sisters both.
Thursday, after Isyak. The Brotherhood Circle at PV8. One hour of open discussion, fifteen to twenty brothers, built around the questions people could not answer that week. Brothers only.
Sunday, 12pm to 6pm. Street dawah at Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur and at USJ in Selangor. A booth, a table and conversations with whoever stops. Come for an hour or the whole afternoon.
Any day, 9am to 6pm. Mosque tours for visitors, at five mosques across KL and Melaka, booked two days ahead. On Fridays the mosques close to visitors between 12pm and 3pm.
Two hours a week, on a day you choose. Mosque tour training, a twelve week mentorship. This one bends around your schedule rather than the other way round.
The three fixed sessions
These happen every week whether one person comes or twenty. You do not need to tell us you are coming, though it helps for the Monday class because of the sixteen seats.
Weekly dawah class
6pm to 7.15pm, PV8 Setapak. The classroom half of everything else we do. Free, and open to brothers and sisters.
Brotherhood Circle
After Isyak, PV8 Setapak. One hour, discussion rather than lecture, and you can sit and listen for as many weeks as you like.
Street dawah
12pm to 6pm, Bukit Bintang and USJ. Handing out pamphlets and talking to whoever stops. Turn up or tell us first.
Activities for visitors, not only for Muslims
Half of what we run is aimed at people who are not Muslim and have no intention of becoming one. That is not a footnote to the work, it is the work.
Mosque tours. About an hour, free, in English, French or Spanish. You see the prayer hall and spend most of the time asking whatever you like. Our guides at Masjid Wilayah and Masjid Negara are registered volunteers with the mosque tour programmes there.
Sunday afternoons. If you would rather not commit to anything at all, walk past our table at Bukit Bintang or USJ. Take a pamphlet, ask something, keep walking. Nobody follows up.
Questions in writing. If turning up anywhere feels like too much, send a question and a person will write back. You can stay anonymous.
The full picture for visitors is on explore Islam, and if you would rather go to a mosque by yourself we have written up how to visit one without a guide.
Which one should you start with
You have never done dawah at all. Monday class. It assumes nothing and you can sit quietly at the back for as long as you need to.
Your English freezes when someone asks you something. Mosque tour training. Twelve weeks of speaking to real visitors with a mentor beside you does more than any amount of study, because you are using the exact vocabulary you actually need.
You have two hours a week and an unpredictable schedule. Tour training again. It is the only one of our activities where you pick the day and time yourself.
You want to see whether you can handle a hard question. Sunday street dawah. Nothing exposes what you do and do not know faster, and there is always somebody experienced within a few steps.
You are a brother who wants to go deeper. Thursday circle, ideally alongside one of the field activities so you have something to bring back.
You are not Muslim. Book a mosque tour. An hour, free, and nobody will ask you to decide anything at the end of it.
Still unsure? Getting started lays out the whole path in order.
What each activity asks of you
No money. Every activity here is free. There is no fee, no materials to buy, and no collection at the end of a mosque tour.
Some time, honestly stated. Monday is an hour and a quarter. Thursday is an hour. Sunday can be an hour or six. Tour training is two hours a week for twelve weeks. Nothing hides a larger commitment behind a small one.
Commitment rather than payment. This is what we ask instead of a fee. The class builds on itself and the circle works when the same faces come back, so turning up once every few months gets much less out of it than it could.
Nothing on your first visit. You are not asked to speak, introduce yourself or demonstrate anything at any of the sessions. Watching is a legitimate way to spend a first week, and most people do exactly that.
Ask us for the details
Tell us which activity you are interested in and we will send the specifics: where to meet, what to bring, and what to expect the first time.
Come this week
The next session is never more than a few days away. Monday, Thursday and Sunday come round whether you are ready or not, which is rather the point of running them on a fixed rhythm.
We are at PV8, Setapak, and our field work runs across Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Putrajaya and Melaka. Here is who we are, and the contact page covers anything not answered here.