Assalamualaikum warahmatullohi Wabarakatuh,
Last week was not much for me to share on weekly reflection, as Dr. Lihanna lovely surprised us with POP-quiz!
The quiz was okay. I hope Dr. Lihanna will be kind with the marks. :)
I'd like to share further on our Da'wah Project.
Briefly, each of us will select the closest person to us, be it our best friend, brother, sister, cousin, roommate (no boyfriend, girlfriend yea) etc. Just one person. Each of us will closely keep on eye on that person on his/her daily prayer performance.
As our objective is to bring the person closer to Allah s.w.t, the behavior chosen for us to improve and evaluate is praying behavior.
We will text him/her every time the azan calls in, that means 5 texts/phone calls (this is according to everyone's convenience) a day. We have agreed that we shouldn't be too cheap with our prepaid and phone bills. This was planned earlier so everyone can have their prepaid money in preparation. We can occasionally call and text the person to see his/her progression.
This is called buddy system.
Other than that, our buddy will be given a calendar. Every time he/she successfully performed a complete 5-times prayer, he/she will put a tick on that day.
It's been widely known that every habit that is performed in a straight 40-days, the habit will become permanent.
However, due to time (and money) constraint, our intervention will be 14-days long.
Our issue rose when we are unable to decide between;
1) Evaluate on the performing the prayer
2) Evaluate on the performing the prayer on time.
As our buddy could be anyone, I could be close to someone who doesn't pray at all, but other groupmates may be close to someone who prays, but he/she doesn't pray on time, we have difficulties in deciding the behavior. This is because people are different.
I think we came to a decision that everyone can choose either one, depending on their chosen buddy.
As long as it is a behavior improvement, right?
We will consult Dr. Lihanna about this.
In my opinion, reinforcing praying behavior could be a sensitive issue to someone, and it will be difficult for us to intervene. However, praying, even though it has been emphasized through out our lives, we are seeing people who have been neglecting prayers. Not few, but many. Neglecting prayers, unfortunately, as it is a sensitive matter, it is also widely occurs among Muslim people.
All in all, I hope this proposal will be approved by Dr. Lihanna. Looking forward for your approval and happiness. May you read this post in the best of health.
I end this post with Assalamualaikum warahmatullohi Wabarakatuh. May everyone have a good day. *hugs and kisses*
I hope the project is going well, this is a noble goal, a sensitive one at this age among your peers perhaps, so kudos for taking up the challenge.
ReplyDeleteHave you resolved how you are going to deal with the variations? It's actually okay to have slightly different behavioural targets among the respondents, as long each one of you is clear what they are.
Salam Madam. Thank you for commenting :)
ReplyDeleteAs we reported, each of us will have different behavior target, depending on our buddy. In our group, Shazreen was the only one who targeted praying behavior, and the rest of us targeted praying ON TIME behavior. However, we couldn't find significant result due to the short period of intervention :(. That's the best we can came up with. We did suggest a similar intervention with a longer period of intervention anyway.