Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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devotions. It may be a stick, or anything a cubit in height
and an inch in thickness.
On one journey to Kandhla he bought a third class
ticket but, having failed to find a seat in a third class
compartment, he got into a secondclass
compartment along with his colleagues. He could
pay the extra amount when the ticket collector
arrived, he said. But the ticket collector created
difficulties when he saw the tickets. The Maulana
was momentarily put out and scolded him. When
the Ticket Collector left after renewing the tickets,
one of his colleagues, Maulana Inamul Hasan, said
to him that the man had had the right to object. The
Maulana was quick to admit his mistake and as
soon as the train stopped at the next station, he
went up to him and apologized.
His attachment to God was such that prayers were
not so much a matter of obligation to him as a
source of great enjoyment and solace. In the course
of rough journeys where hills had to be crossed, his
colleagues were usually exhausted by the time they
reached the top of the hill and preferred to take rest.
