Cake & Dawah: Part 1 - The Qur'an on Deep Seas and Internal Waves
OP - April 14, 2011, 10:33 PM
Last week, on Thursday to be precise, a colleague excitedly came to find me in my lab to tell me that "there's some evangelical Muslims outside the library, and they're giving away cake!" You can imagine my excitement, free dawah AND cake...so off I walked, for some reason expecting to find a group of weirdybeardies with whom a forthright debate could be held. Imagine my disappointment to find three very sweet looking Malaysian girls in head scarves, smiling and beckoning disinterested passers-by with free sugar filled yummyness. My heart sank as I realised I didn't have the heart to debate with them in case anyone got upset. I wandered over, feeling rather awkward...
"Hello!" one girl beamed beamed, "Have you heard of Islam?" I kid you not. "Ummm, yes." "That's wonderful, what do you know about it?" After much foot shuffling and umming and erring I mumbled something along the lines of "oh, you know, not much", which prompted some giggling, offering of leaflets and cake and an invitation to ask any questions. I vowed to return after getting some lunch...[to be continued]