However, OASIS’s life would prove to be short-lived, as by the autumn of 1996, Abu Khadeejah recalls that its founders began to fear replicating the errors of JIMAS in trying to gather callers and students under one banner.[1] To avoid risking the Daʿwah once again, they made the crucial decision to dissolve OASIS. It was at this juncture that another major turning point in the discourse of Salafism in the UK and the West occurred, as former OASIS members Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wāhid and Abu Iyād Amjad Rafiq, along with British convert to Islam Abu Talhah Dawūd Burbank, who was a former student at the IUM, established a stronger, more resilient Daʿwah. Together, they decided to establish a publishing house and focus on spreading the Salafi Daʿwah via translations of core Islamic texts from classical Arabic to English, disseminated in the form of articles, leaflets, books—and later, in the internet era, online work. Their close friendship and efforts facilitated the spread of Salafism in the UK and across the English-speaking world in a manner not previously seen. The name of this publishing house and non-profit organisation was Salafi Publications (SalafiPubs).
Later, these duʿāt were joined by returning British students, such as Abu Hakim Bilal Davis, Abu Abdullāh Bilāl Hussain, Abu Fudayl Abdur-Raqeeb Francis, Abu Tasneem Mousaf, Abu Junaide Yusuf Bowers, Abu Idrees Muhammad Khān, and others, who would also go on to play an important role in propagating and strengthening the Salafi Daʿwah in Birmingham and beyond.[2]
[1] Abdul-Wāhid 2013.
[2] See authors article: ‘Students Revive Authentic Islam’. Source: https://researchingsalafism.com/students-revive-authentic-islam/
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