The Higher Voice Dawah Movement got its start at Masjidullah-Plainfield in June of 2012. Mubaashir Uqdah called a meeting of the believers in the Northeast Section of the Community of Imam W. Deen Mohammed and presented the program to members of Masjidullah-Plainfield and a few others from surrounding areas. Masjidullah-Plainfield formed the first Higher Voice Dawah team in the country. As the word spread, Muslims formed teams multiple cities in various states across the country, all using the same methodology and dawah materials.
The Vision of the Dawah Movement
The vision was to have Muslims and people of concern across the country combing through neighborhoods sharing with people words from the Higher Voice (enlightened principles and concepts) that speak to the Higher Voice within (the original human soul) and inspires them to rise up to the high station of human character, behavior, and thinking that the Creator intended for human beings.
The Mission
The mission was to bring about this vision by organizing the Higher Voice Dawah Movement amongst the community associated with the leader who has inspired the vision of this movement; Imam Warith Deen Mohammed.
Masjidullah-Plainfield Dawah on the Move
Our team in Plainfield would meet Saturday mornings dressed in our identifying “uniform,” black pants, white shirt, and white or black skull cap or kufi. We systematically distributed the higher voice brochures to every house and apartment building, on every street in the city of Plainfield, block-by-block, street-by-street, house-by-house.
We had wonderful experiences; the team members bonded as brothers, we had positive conversations and responses from the community, people were happy to see us, giving us thumbs up, and reading our literature, and we all got in better physical shape. Our dawah materials were not the typical proselytizing literature (e.g., the 5 pillars, what is Qur’an, who is Muhammad, and we love Jesus too, etc.). The literature presented concepts and ideas to encourage and empower the community to reach for their higher self, not to try and convert them to Islam.
Masjidullah-Plainfield’s dawah team not only worked in Plainfield, but when new teams formed in New Jersey, New York, or Pennsylvania, our team would drive to those towns and jointly go out with them on their first outing to show them how we do it. It was great. We’ve been to Newark, Jersey City, Patterson, Harrisburg PA, and Brooklyn NY, just to name a few places. While the Higher Voice Dawah Movement is not active in 2020, Masjidullah-Plainfield’s dawah team, up until the Covid pandemic, was still active, periodically going out to spread the message of Islam. For more information on the dawah team contact Edward Shahied at: edward.shahied@masjidullah-plainfield.org
