Use Dawah.Wiki with adab, clarity, and responsibility.
These guidelines apply to public pages, forum discussions, uploads, private/trusted spaces, and future collaboration tools unless a more specific rule is posted for that area.
Transparency
Dawah.Wiki is a public Islamic knowledge project. We intend to be transparent about our operations, moderation boundaries, safety policy, and the difference between public material and trusted/private material.
- Public resources should be safe for general readers and should not expose sensitive material irresponsibly.
- Trusted or private materials may be restricted when a topic requires care, qualification, or protection from misuse.
- Article work, uploads, refutations, and research notes should distinguish verified sources from uncertainty.
- Staff may restrict material when it creates legal, safety, fitnah, moderation, or misuse risk.
General conduct
Please be polite, courteous, sincere, and fair. Consider the Golden Rule: treat others as you would love to be treated.
- Do not use profanity, engage insincerely, abuse others, mock, sealion, troll, or intentionally derail discussion.
- Fitnah and disrespect are punishable. Do not provoke unnecessary drama, backbite, gossip, spread rumors, or cause disruption.
- Do not disrupt dawah sessions, moderation work, article review, or community learning spaces.
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Islamic respect and source discipline
- Do not insult Allah, the Prophets, the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the Companions, or the Family of the Prophet ﷺ.
- Do not defame respected Islamic figures or speak about Muslims in a toxic, reckless, or derogatory way.
- Do not answer Islamic questions without knowledge, context, and understanding of the situation.
- Do not create unnecessary debates about matters of ikhtilāf.
- Do not put down the Sunnah or discourage acting upon the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
- When contributing articles, uploads, refutations, or research notes, cite sources carefully and distinguish what is verified from what is uncertain.
Modesty, avatars, and free-mixing
Members must maintain modesty in profile pictures, biographies, statuses, messages, voice chats, and all interactions.
- Awrah refers to body parts that must be covered in the presence of non-mahrams.
- Mahram means someone whom marriage is permanently forbidden. For men, this includes their mother and sister; for women, this includes their father, brother, etc.
- Brothers: profile pictures should be modest. Avoid showing above the knee and below the navel. For safety and to prevent fitnah, members should refrain from posting their own or others’ faces online.
- Sisters: profile pictures must not contain images of women, even hands or face. Sisters should not share images of themselves online, and personal images can be misused through modern editing and AI tools.
- Free-mixing: unnecessary verbal, visual, or private interaction between opposite genders is not allowed, whether public or private.
- Opposite-gender interaction: keep discussion purposeful, professional, concise, and free of personal details such as age, location, private life, or emotional intimacy.
- Awrah discussion: do not discuss awrah with the opposite gender except where there is a clear, necessary, and properly moderated Islamic/legal context.
- Preventing free-mixing: be concise and formal, keep discussion on-topic and brief, and maintain proper etiquette when addressing the opposite gender.
- Communication between genders should not take place in DMs.
Prohibited content and behavior
- Doxxing, phishing, hacking, credential sharing, or exposing private information.
- NSFW content, sexual content, awrah, foul language, crude slogans, offensive avatars, offensive names, offensive statuses, or inappropriate links.
- Do not advertise anything without staff approval. This includes social media pages, charity links, server invites, outside projects, and DM advertising.
- Proselytizing or preaching false religions, false ideologies, or unsound dawah is not allowed in public spaces or member DMs.
- Racism, bigotry, mocking ethnicities or nationalities, or mocking any group or individual.
- Spam, harassment, threats, intimidation, impersonation, or evading moderation actions.
- Music discussion or music posting except when discussing Islamic rulings pertaining to the topic.
- Political issues without a clear reason, relevance, and moderation-safe framing.
Extremism policy
Dawah.Wiki is anti-terrorism, anti-Khawārij, anti-Surūrī, anti-Ikhwānī, and anti-ISIS / anti-Dāʿesh. We do not permit support for terrorist, extremist, armed, or destabilizing groups or ideologies.
Extremist content is not allowed
- Do not support ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Dāʿesh, the Khawārij, or any terrorist organization.
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- This is not an exhaustive list. Staff may remove content and restrict accounts when material creates safety, legal, fitnah, or moderation risk.
Language and moderation
- Use English or Arabic in public areas unless a specific multilingual area is later approved. This is for moderation and review.
- Moderators may remove posts, restrict uploads, close threads, mute users, warn users, or ban users to preserve safety, adab, clarity, and community trust.
- Staff discretion applies to offensive content, fitnah, inappropriate links, borderline NSFW material, avatars, names, statuses, and public/private safety risks.
- Contact staff before sharing outside projects, donation links, servers, social media pages, or collaboration invitations.
⛔ Ban
- Insulting Allah, the Prophets, the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the Companions, or the Family of the Prophet ﷺ.
- Doxxing, phishing, hacking, credential sharing, or NSFW content.
- DM advertising, invite spam, or repeated unauthorized promotion.
- Proselytizing or preaching false religions.
- Terrorist or extremist support.
- Racism, bigotry, or mocking any group or individual.
🔇 Mute
- Spamming or disrupting dawah sessions.
- Mocking, slandering, or disrespecting scholars.
- Posting content with awrah, LGBTQ-related content, terrorism-related content, or mild NSFW material.
- Instigating fitnah or causing disruption.
- Disrespecting other religions; discussions must remain respectful.
- Using obscene language or being disrespectful.
⚠️ Warn
- Discussing other servers without need.
- Playing songs or music in voice chat.
- Backbiting, gossiping, or spreading rumors.
- Sharing dark humor content.
- Posting content with music; educational content requires a warning.
- Sharing content that incites drama.
- Discussing political issues without reason or relevance.
Our Call to the Ummah
A public reference for the methodology of Dawah.Wiki;
we adhere to the Salafi Methodology, the Path of the Pious Predecessors.
[1]: We believe in Allah and His Names and Attributes,
as they were mentioned in the Book of Allah and in the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ,
without tahrif (distortion),
nor ta'wil (figurative interpretation),
nor tamthil (making a likeness),
nor tashbih (resemblance),
nor ta'til (denial).
[2] We love the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them all) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ,
and we hate those who speak against them.
We believe that to speak ill of them is to speak ill of the Religion,
because they are the ones who conveyed it to us.
And we love the Family of the Prophet ﷺ with love that is permitted by the Shari'ah.
'Imran ibn Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) said,
"O people! Learn the knowledge of the Religion from us, if you do not do so, then you will certainly be misguided."¹
[3] We love the People of Hadith and all of the Salaf of the Ummah from Ahlus-Sunnah.
Imam Shatibi (d790H) - may Allah have mercy upon him - said,
"The Salafus-Salih, the Companions, the Tabi'in, and their successors knew the Qur'an, its sciences and its meanings the best."²
[4] We despise 'ilmul-kalam (knowledge of theological rhetoric),
and we view it to be from amongst the greatest reasons for the division in the Ummah.
[5]: We do not accept anything from the Books of fiqh (jurisprudence),
nor from the Books of tafsir (explanation of the Qur'an),
nor from the ancient stories,
nor from the Sirah (biography) of the Prophet ﷺ,
except that which has been confirmed from Allah or from His Messenger ﷺ.
We do not mean that we have rejected them, nor do we claim that we are not in need of them.
Rather, we benefit from the discoveries of our Scholars and the jurists and other than them.
However, we do not accept a ruling, except with an authentic proof.
[6]: We do not write in our Books, nor do we cover in our lessons, nor do we give sermons with anything
except the Qur'an, or the authentic and authoritative hadith.
And we detest what emanates from many books and admonishers in the terms of false stories and weak and fabricated ahadith.
'Abdullah ibnul-Mubarak, may Allah have mercy on him, said,
"The authentic ahadith are sufficient and the weak ahadith are not needed."³
[7] We do not perform takfir upon any Muslim due to any sin,
except Shirk with Allah, or the abandonment of Prayer, or apostasy.
We seek refuge in Allah from that.
[8] We believe that the Qur'an is the Speech of Allah, it is not created.
[9] We hold that our ‘obligation is to co-operate with the group that traverses the methodology of the Book and the Sunnah,
and what the Salaf of the Ummah were upon;
in terms of calling to Allah the Glorified,
and being sincere in worship of Him,
and warning from Shirk, innovations,
and disobedience,
and to advise all of the groups that oppose this.’⁴
‘So co-operating upon righteousness and piety (taqwa) and mutual advising
necessitates warning against evil and not co-operating with the wicked.’⁵
[10] We do not deem it correct to revolt against the Muslim rulers as long as they are Muslims,
nor do we feel that revolutions bring about reconciliation.
Rather, they corrupt the community.
[11] We hold that this multiplicity of present day parties is a reason for the division of the Muslims and their weakness.
So, therefore, we set about ‘freeing the minds from the fetters of blind-following
and the darkness of sectarianism and party spirit.’⁶
[12] We restrict our understanding of the Book of Allah and
of the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
to the understanding of the Salaf of the Ummah from the Scholars of hadith,
not blind-followers of their individuals.
Rather, we take the truth from wherever it comes.
And we know that there are those who claim Salafiyyah, yet Salafiyyah is free from them,
since they bring to the society what Allah has prohibited.
We believe in ‘cultivating the young generation upon this Islam,
purified from all that we have mentioned,
giving to them a correct Islamic education from the start —
without any influence from the disbelieving western education.’⁷
[13] We believe that politics is a part of the Religion,
and those who try to separate the Religion from politics are only attempting to destroy the Religion and to spread chaos.
[14] We believe there will be no honour or victory for the Muslims
until they return to the Book of Allah and to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
[15] We oppose those who divide the Religion into trivialities and important issues. And we know that this is a destructive da'wah.
[16] We oppose those who put down the knowledge of the Sunnah, and who say that this is not the time for it. Likewise, we oppose those who put down acting upon the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
[17] Our da'wah and our aqidah is more beloved to us than our own selves, our wealth and our offspring.
So we are not prepared to part with it for gold, nor silver.
We say this so that no one may hope in buying out our da'wah,
nor should he think that it is possible for him to purchase it from us for dinar or dirham.
[18] We love the present day Scholars of the Sunnah and hope to benefit from them and regret the passing away of many of them.
Imam Malik said (d.179H) - may Allah have mercy upon him -
"The knowledge of hadith is your flesh and blood and you will be asked concerning it on the Day of Judgment,
so look who you are taking it from."⁸
[19] We do not accept a fatwa except from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
- Refer to al-Kifayah (p15) of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
- Refer to al-Muwafiqat (2/79) of ash-Shatibi
- Refer to al-Jami' li-Akhlaqir-Rawi (2/159) of As-Suyuti.
- From a fatwa by the Committee of Major Scholars dated: 11/16/1417, (no. 18870). It was signed by Al-'Allamah Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz, Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah alush-Shaykh, Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Ghudayyan, Shaykh Bakr ibn Abdullah Abu Zayd, and Shaykh Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan.
- From the words of Shaykh ibn Baz in l-Furqan magazin (issue no. 14, p15)
- From Fiqhul-Waqi (p49) of al-Albani
- From Fiqhul-Waqi (p51) of al-Albani
- Refer to al-Muhaddithul-Fasil p(416) and al-Kifayah (p21) of al-Khatib
These are glimpses into our aqidah and our da'wah.
So if one has any objection to this,
then we are prepared to accept advice if it is truthful,
and to refute it if it is erroneous,
and to avoid it if it is stubborn rejection.
And Allah knows best.
Summarised from Tarjumah Abi Abdur-Rahman Muqbil ibn Hadi al-Wadi'i (p135-142) of Muqbil ibn Hadi with minor additions from other sources.