De-conditioning is necessary for dawah work. When there is de-conditioning, dawah work functions properly. Without deconditioning, there is no dawah work. Our effort to de-condition an individual may take a thousand years. But modern education, modern thought, modern science, spirit of enquiry and the will to doubt culture -- have helped to de-condition people in this world. People often believe that today there is apostasy but no Abu Bakr to address it. This was not apostasy, rather it was a de-conditioning. People thought de-conditioning was equivalent to abandoning religion and becoming an atheist. This is incorrect.

Iqbal had said:

We thought education would bring prosperity,
We never knew that atheism would come along too!

Maulana Maududi had said that schools were slaughterhouses, our youth are murdered there. But this was not murder. Rather it was de-conditioning. People thought if a young person begins to speak against religion, he becomes an atheist and irreligious. This is wrong. Rather, that young person becomes Mr. Nature! Superficial conditioning can be removed, but human nature cannot be erased. When conditioning is removed, nature prevails in its place. It never happens that one's real nature too gets erased. Abolishing nature is not within one's capacity.

Can you eliminate thirst? Can you eliminate hunger? In the same way, you cannot eliminate your human nature. Whatever be their de-conditioning, even if our youth speak against religion or against Islam, they will always remain on their nature. You have to address this nature. This is a very important point. It was believed that if people leave religion, they are over. Being without religion means they have become Mr. Nature. They haven't really become atheists. They have become Mr. Nature. If they are Mr. Nature, they are the best audience for us. After deep thinking I have realized that people used to think that sine our youth are going away from religion, they are becoming irreligious. Rather, they have left the religion of their forefathers and are now on their nature. Nature can never be eliminated. It would always remain within a person. This is why, such youths become the best audience for us. The obstacles in the form o tradition-based religion or superstition-based religion are removed. When these obstacles are removed and a person's real nature prevails, then he becomes the best audience for us.