Tabligh Movement
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into conflict with other ideologies in the world. It is
challenged at various points, and to defend it and
maintain its intellectual and material status, we
have to deal with a great diversity of situations in
different ways. Sometimes it becomes urgent to
make peace, as at Hudaibiyya, and sometimes
defence is urgently called for, as at Badr and
Hunain. At other times we have to take recourse to
rational arguments when religion comes face to face
with such thoughts as subvert its very basis, as has
happened in the past when Muslims were exposed
to Greek thought.
The former demand concerns the essence of religion
and is permanently to be desired; the latter is a
relative part of religion determined by the
circumstances. At times the relative part assumes
the same importance as the real; but when the need
vanishes it loses its importance.
If this interpretation is acceptable, I think we can re-
late all parts to a cohesive whole, bringing together
all of them on one platform in order to work for the
same cause. Thus all of us can share in the revival of
religion according to our capacities. What we all
