Upcoming dawah activities
The next of our upcoming dawah activities is never more than a few days away. Three sessions run every single week on fixed days, so there is no calendar to check and no announcement to wait for.
Occasional one off events sit alongside them, and those are listed further down as they are confirmed.
The weekly three, in one line
Three sessions run every week on fixed days: a class on Monday evening, a circle for brothers on Thursday after Isyak, and street dawah on Sunday afternoon. Mosque tours run any day a visitor books one.
Times, locations and what each session asks of you are all on the activities page, including a short guide that picks one for you based on where you are starting from. There is no point repeating it here.
The rest of this page is about the things that do not happen every week.
Field trips and one off sessions
Beyond the weekly rhythm we run occasional events. These do not follow a fixed calendar, and we would rather say that plainly than publish a schedule we cannot keep.
They are worth waiting for. A field trip does more for a new daie in one Saturday than a month of Mondays, because everything you have been taught arrives at once and in the wrong order, which is exactly how it arrives in real life.
Melaka field trips
We take students to the mosques of Melaka to do live dawah with real visitors. Our very first cohort of seven went there rather than staying in a classroom, and it is still the fastest way we know to make someone capable. Melaka is chosen deliberately: the mosques there receive well over a hundred visitors a day at weekends and often have nobody on hand to explain anything, so a trip is genuinely useful rather than an exercise.
Invited speakers
We bring people with genuine expertise in dawah into the Monday class for particular topics, rather than pretending we know everything ourselves.
Ramadan
Mosques fill and visitor numbers rise, so the month usually brings extra sessions. It is also the single best month of the year for a non Muslim to see a mosque, because the atmosphere in the hour before sunset is unlike anything else in the calendar.
How you hear about upcoming dawah activities
We do not run a mailing list. We are volunteers with jobs and families, and a newsletter nobody has time to write becomes an empty promise within two months.
Instead there are three honest routes.
Ask us and we will tell you. Use the form below, say what you are interested in, and we will message you when something relevant comes up. No list, no broadcasts, just a reply when it matters to you.
Watch the channel. Lectures and field recordings go up on our YouTube channel, and it is the clearest picture of what we are actually doing week to week.
Read the blog. Notes and reflections from the field appear on the blog.
If you are already coming to a session, your mentor or whoever runs that session will tell you directly about anything upcoming. That is how most people hear about a Melaka trip.
Coming for the first time
Nothing is asked of you at any of the upcoming dawah activities on your first visit. You are not introduced to the room, not asked to explain yourself, and not put on the spot with a question to see what you know.
Observers are welcome at all of it. Sit at the back of the Monday class. Stand at the Sunday table and hand out pamphlets without speaking to anybody. Listen for the whole hour on Thursday. Most people do exactly that the first time and start speaking the second time.
You do not need to know much. The questions visitors actually ask are ordinary ones, and you can already answer most of them. What you are missing is practice, not knowledge.
Everything is free. No fee, no materials to buy, and no collection at the end.
If you have not started at all, getting started sets out the path in order, and the activities page explains what each session asks of you.
Questions about turning up
Do I need to book?
For Sunday street dawah, no. Walk up to the table at Bukit Bintang or USJ any time between noon and six. For the Monday class it genuinely helps, because there are only sixteen seats and we would rather not turn anyone away at the door. The Thursday circle holds about twenty, so the same applies.
Can I bring a friend?
Please do. Tell us first for Monday and Thursday so the seats work out. On a Sunday bring as many people as you like.
What if I can only come once a month?
Then come once a month. It is better than not coming, and Sunday street dawah suits an irregular schedule far better than the class does, because nothing carries over from one week to the next. If your schedule is genuinely unpredictable, the twelve week mentorship is the one designed for you, since you and your mentor pick the hours between you.
What if I arrive late?
On a Sunday it makes no difference at all. For the Monday class, come in anyway. Walking in at half past six is better than staying home.
I still cannot decide which one.
The activities page has a short guide that picks one for you based on where you are starting from.
Tell us what you want to hear about
Pick what you are interested in and we will send you the details, and let you know when something one off is coming up in that area.
Not Muslim, and reading this anyway
Then the activity for you is not on the weekly list at all. Book a mosque tour on whichever day suits you, spend about an hour inside with a guide, and ask whatever you have been carrying around. It is free and nobody will ask you to decide anything.
You are also welcome to simply walk past our table at Bukit Bintang or USJ on a Sunday and ask something without stopping for long.