Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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When he was seriously ill, the doctors advised him
to refrain from speaking, but he said, “I prefer to die
while exhorting people to the path of the Lord, than
to take rest for the recovery of my own health.”
As his health deteriorated, he received repeated
inquiries about it. Replying to one of his friends, he
writes:
“I have no pain except that of preaching.”
It greatly distressed him to learn that only the less
educated have surrendered themselves to his fold.
On his deathbed, he writes with great pain:
“Would that the religious scholars were to
take up the cause before I passed away.”
Once while saying his prayers in the train, his
colleagues stopped others from passing in front of
him. When he had finished his prayers, he showed
his resentment and said, “You had better set up a
Sutrah*. This was because of his great consideration
for others.
*Something put up before one engaged in prayer to
prevent others from intruding upon the worshippers’
