UMT Campus Dawah Experience

This was written by DM Lahore member Ghadia Cheema.

After many years, I stepped into a university’s campus in Lahore, not for getting admission, but to spend a fruitful day with the young souls. I deeply thank my beautiful friends of ‘Dawah Motivation’, as they helped me in getting out of my comfort zone and directly witness the pitiable plight our young generation is in. It was a friday, and the university had hosted a lecture for creating awareness regarding palestine. We, the members of ‘Dawah Motivation’ had arranged a stall near the lecture hall. Our main aim was to tell our young sisters regarding their life’s real purpose and how its acheivement becomes easier by being part of a sisterhood which may uplift them in every way and be with them in their difficult and sad times. Many girls showed enthusiasm and came to our stall and enquired regading what we do and why we do so etc? Some even got attracted by our little decoration and came to take a pic. And then got into a conversation with us regarding why dawah is necessary and how we train others to do dawah with Muslims and Non Muslims. We even had arranged a little activity to create some excitement among the visitors. There were few duas or tasks written on small pieces of paper, folded beautifully and placed on a candle stand. Girls enjoyed it, and would usually leave our stall in a happy mood.
However, the real tragic part came, when I roamed around the campus and asked a very basic question from girls. It was regarding their goal or purpose of life. Most of the answers I got were: ‘becoming confident and independent, becoming happy, enjoying life to the fullest, moving away from Pakistan and settling in some western country etc’. These were the girls who knew their goals, while others simply replied ‘don’t know, still trying to find it’, have no goal yet, we are moving with the wind whereever life may take us’ etc. Only one girl said that her goal was to gain a house in Jannah and her reply really made my day. Her reply and the strength of her reply made me hopeful again. Otherwise, the aimlessness on those girls’ faces and the materialistic nature of their goals if they had any, made my heart sink. I asked them that once they have achieved a good financial status and all that they think would make them happy, then what would be their aim of life then? Why would they like to live further if they have acheieved all? And what if, unfortunately they are not able to achieve all that? Why would they like to live a failed life? What’s that ultimate goal that may let them live a peaceful life till their last breath? Many of them realized how it all can make sense if we connect our goals with the obedience of Allah Almighty. Two of them even visited our stall afterwards and admired our efforts for youth Alhamdulilah.
However, life’s goals can’t be corrected in a few minutes. We need to make real efforts and think of ways to realign our youngsters’ minds with the message of Quran. We need to show to the world how dunia is a part of deen and not any separate entity. We need to take out our youth from mere rituals to the real system of Islam that governs every thought and action of our life. For this, we sisters should promote sisterhood in such a way, that light and blessings of Islam may spread all around us in shaa Allah.

 

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