u/Fair_Bar1139

I'm generally confused with this.
Islam is clearly ONLY Quran and Sunnah.

However.... why do some practicing Sunni Muslims can't accept this? Isn't this clearly straightforward?

Why follow something else such as innovations or wrongful Maulanas/Pirs when the way of the Quran and Sunnah can be easily sought today?

Maybe in the old times people can say that they were not informed or were misled but today we have access to Youtube, and many Salafi online resources. There is no excuse for ignorance.

Just food for thought...

I first started becoming a more practicing Muslim after an encounter with Tablighi Jamaat. This group made me closer to Islam (This is the only credit I'm going to give them here). I was with this group for some time but later decided to leave because I felt their approach to dawah made no sense.

I'm not here to discuss about their innovations. What I want to address is how ineffective their dawah methodology is. Let me explain why:

1. Their method of dawah makes no sense.

They approach people who have no interest in listening. They go house-to-house, door-to-door. But most of the time no one is home.... Even when someone does answer the door, you can tell from their expression that they have no interest in their Daw'a.

Why give dawah to people who don't want to hear it? What's the point?

What's even worse is when they venture into places like parks, hookah lounges, and nightclubs, etc. These are places where people are in a state of sin and Ghaflah. Yet their expectation is that people will stop and listen? Well guess what? Hardly anyone listens to them. People would out right say "I am not interested". I also witnessed firsthand a situation where we were scolded and kicked out of a hookah lounge while giving Dawa there.

What is the point of all this? If people are not ready to listen, why give Dawa to them?

2. Their results are terrible.

Imagine a business that is not making a single profit. That is essentially what Tablighi Jamaat is. It's only the same people showing up time and again. I once asked one of their Amirs about their results (i.e how often do new people join their Khuruuj). He said that they get roughly one new person a year.

One person per year? Are you kidding me?

Compare that to a YouTube channel or a public lecture, where hundreds or thousands of people are actually subscribing, listening and benefiting. They're effort is an enormous waste of time and effort.

3. They are too timid and passive.

Most of them are very timid and none of them are scholars. None of them have any credentials or seek to gain such credentials. They always remain in the background. They have no desire to capture the microphone, take the masjid mimbar, or step forward to speak.

Compare this to other effective callers to Islam. They stand at the front, speak with a strong voice and engage the crowd. Tablighi Jamaat callers, on the other hand are extremely passive, just hoping that people will somehow come to them. And guess what... no one does! People walk past them, brush them off, or ignore them entirely.

These are just a few of my complaints. There is much more that could be said but my focus here is specifically on their methodology of Dawah which is highly ineffective.