Tabligh Movement
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impart education to the assembly. Notwithstanding
the major role of the press in modern times, its role
in this instance is nominal. The Tabligh organizes
huge gatherings every year such as no other party
can manage to do, but they neither publish
advertisements, handbills and posters, nor is any
announcement made by loudspeaker. Hundreds
and thousands of people have involved themselves
in this work but no magazine is issued to bring
them together, to educate them, or to give them
instructions. I personally know that on one occasion
when an editor of a certain newspaper published
reports about a gathering that was being organized,
the senior members went and met the editor to
protest about it.
No doubt, holding such views will appear to be
verging on fanaticism, but this firm attitude has
brought about a high degree of efficiency which no
other movement can claim to possess. It is a fact
that when someone is advocating his beliefs and
ideas to others in person, his words bear the whole
force of his personality. There is sweetness in his
words, feeling in his style and conviction in his
tone. Moreover, when this conversation takes place
