Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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even one of them is willing to spare a little of his
time for God. Does this not imply holding this
world superior to the next world?”
Once a Tabligh gathering was held in Lucknow.
After the meeting, a group of people began to
exhort the audience to offer to go to Kanpur for the
sake of the mission. Despite repeated exhortations,
not a single person responded to the call. The
Maulana was pained to see this indifference. One of
the participants, Haji Wali Mohammad, was
suffering from piles and obviously was too weak to
travel. The Maulana asked him why he lagged
behind. He told him that he was almost dying. The
Maulana said, “When you are dying already you
had better die in Kanpur.”
These incidents reveal only partially the degree of
his involvement, because, when an incident is
reported, the personality of the speaker, the
emotions and feelings attached to words are
missing. The sincere feelings, the inner conviction,
the impassioned and heartfelt longing to make the
listeners understand the message - not all of this can
be captured in writing.
