Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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left him no time to look after himself. Many a time
he left Nizamuddin on a Friday after lunch and had
his second meal only after returning home on a
Sunday. Keeping awake at nights, climbing moun-
tains, making his way through the hot, dry plains of
Mewat, and alternately facing waves had almost
become a routine with him. When he found that his
colleages were almost dropping with exhaustion
from such a busy schedule, he observed: “God is
but beyond the mountain of struggle: whoever
wants to see Him can find Him there.”
When someone enquired after his health, he wrote
back: “How does health matter? One can be said to
be well if one is able to properly perform the task
for which one was born.”
Once some relatives from Kandhla, his hometown,
visited him to enquire after his health. On hearing
about it, he said, “You have traversed such a long
distance to learn about one who is born to die,
whereas the religion of the Prophet Muhammad,
which is eternal, is being neglected, and you
show no concern for it.”
