Tabligh Movement
4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN
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activities of the mosque, that he observed in one of
his speeches: “I thought that Nizamuddin Aulia
had passed away. But I have learnt that he still lives
on. I have renewed my faith during my stay here.
Whosoever wishes to do the same should visit this
place.”
In order to understand the method that is adopted
by this movement, we need to go back to its
beginning. During my visit to the centre, while I
was conversing with an associate of this mission, an
elderly person who, by his appearance, seemed to
be an illiterate villager, sat next to me. When one of
my colleague casually mentioned shahadah
(martyrdom), the villager added in a calm and
dignified tone, “particularly when death occurs in
the path of propagating the divine message.” This
remark of the villagers tells us that those who
devote themselves to this mission, even if they be
illiterate villagers, acquire a certain degree of
enlightenment and wisdom.
I turned to him out of curiosity to find out who he
was. He was a Mewati who had joined this
movement at the age of eighteen through the
