{"id":6891,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/concocted-stories-for-inculcating-piety\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:10","slug":"concocted-stories-for-inculcating-piety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/concocted-stories-for-inculcating-piety\/","title":{"rendered":"Concocted Stories For Inculcating Piety"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Some  preachers use some baseless stories in the mosques and elsewhere  specially to motivate Muslims to perform the religious duties of Islam.  People are usually easily motivated by such stories. There are  unbelievable stories about Pirs  (religious leaders) who are thought to have done miracles during their  life time and also after their demise. What should a sincere Islamic  preacher do in such a situation especially when, if we directly oppose  those fairy tales like stories, then our integrity as sincere believers  will be questioned. We can be regarded as persons creating dissension in  the Ummah.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>This  is indeed very unfortunate that some people try to persuade others to  do good acts and avoid evil through narrating such concocted stories.  The listeners also do not bother to think that they are being fooled by  accepting things which they wouldn\u2019t believe in if only they were to  deliberate. <\/p>\n<div>The  best approach to preaching is found in the example of the Prophet (sws)  who used to recite the Qur\u2019an before his addressees. The best discourse  and the ultimate source of guidance is the Qur\u2019an. We should try to  present its message in a clear and cogent manner. We should try to  inculcate all the good qualities in people through teaching them the  Qur\u2019an. <\/div>\n<div>We  understand that a believer is always supposed to uphold the truth and  should try to replace the wrong with the right. Of course he must do it  with wisdom and should not create disorder. While we can have a dialogue  with such people and convince them about their folly, we can adopt a  positive approach in this regard. Since the Qur\u2019an is the book which is  revered by all Muslims, we should, instead of telling such people that  they are wrong, explain to them that we should read out to people a  translation of the Qur\u2019anic text. In this manner, we can achieve our  objective without being labeled as insincere. <\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6891\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some  preachers use some baseless stories in the mosques and elsewhere  specially to motivate Muslims to perform the religious duties of Islam.  People are usually easily motivated by such stories. There are  unbelievable stories about Pirs  (religious leaders) who are thought to have done miracles during their  life time and also after their demise. What should a sincere Islamic  preacher do in such a situation especially when, if we directly oppose  those fairy tales like stories, then our integrity as sincere believers  will be questioned. We can be regarded as persons creating dissension in  the Ummah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1222,1544],"tags":[1545,1223,1615],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hadith-sunnah","category-preaching-directives","tag-dawah","tag-hadith","tag-preaching"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Concocted Stories For Inculcating Piety - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/concocted-stories-for-inculcating-piety\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Concocted Stories For Inculcating Piety - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some preachers use some baseless stories in the mosques and elsewhere specially to motivate Muslims to perform the religious duties of Islam. 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