Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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cultural poverty of the Meos, the large-scale
activities of the Aryan missionaries met with great
success. The solution to this problem was to impart
to them religious education so that they did not
yield to any malign influence.
Maulana Ilyas, like his father and brother visited
Mewat from time to time. Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin
being not far from there. Some Mewati students
were already studying there and many other
Mewatis had came to hold the family of Maulana
Ilyas in great reverence because of their devotion
and struggle to guide them along the right path. But
there was still much to do, and the Maulana, greatly
moved by their plight, felt a strong urge to improve
their condition. His first idea was to set up and run
schools in this area of Mewat on the pattern set by
his family, so that the local children could have easy
access to education.
When it came to convincing the Mewatis that they
should send their children to school, they were
tough nuts to crack. How could they spare their
children for school? This, for them amounted to a
sheer waste of time. The children regularly helped
