The two biggest flaws I find in people is a lack of intellectual humility and a lack of spiritual openness. We tend to believe that guidance comes as a result of the efforts of our own minds and simultaneously limit the scope of what we can possibly be the truth. Usually that limitation of scope is indicative of some deeper spiritual illness (love of dunya, wahn, fear of death, kibr, riya, etc.). So we come to conclusions based on what we have told ourselves is acceptable to our own desires and then within those arbitrary confines we rely solely on our own minds to lead us to one corner or the other of this box.
I can count on one hand the amount of people I have met in my life that actually seek Allah’s guidance on major affairs before jumping to conclusions and are also willing to follow His guidance. This is despite it being drilled into our heads in salah 17 times a day. For some reason we don’t take heed
Giving da’wah as a whole is dangerous nowadays. Each da’i can mitigate risk according to their own comfort level but the reality is that, unless you are majorly compromising, you will be a target for security/intelligence services internationally. Once they determine that you are an unapologetic advocate of Islam – you are the enemy.
The issue is not any particular group or movement, the issue is Islam itself. If a group of awliya rose up and made absolutely no mistakes, only wanted to establish Islam, were pragmatic in every sense – they would be vilified just as much as the worst examples. This is what happened to the sahabah and this is what happened to the Prophets. It’s not possible for the people of misguidance to be pleased with, accept, tell the truth about, the people of Haqq.
This kind of circumstance is exactly what these organizations and governments want. They want to blacklist any da’i that is not willing to compromise or give into their narrative. They make it so that if you even associate or interact with someone like that, you feel like you have to live in fear. That further fragments the community, and then everyone has to turn to people like Omar Suleiman or Yasir Qadhi because there’s no one else left.