Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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Once someone came to see the Maulana after
attending the congregation. The Maulana asked
him, “Didn’t you feel sorry for the pathetic abyss
we have fallen into?” He replied “Since I have
witnessed for myself the ignorance of our
community, I’m ashamed of our very existence.”
It was as a result of such dedication to the cause
that in the first major congregation in Mewat in
November 1941, about 25,000 people attended it. A
large number of them came walking all the way
from as far as fifty miles. Their pitiful lack of
education can be judged from the response the
Maulana received when he urged one of the
Mewatis to work for Tabligh. “Tablid? What is
Tablid?” rejoined the Mewati, unable even to
pronounce the word. Yet these very people,
ignorant of even the term, had been converted as if
by magic, into great missionaries, the like of whom
the country had never known.
Motivated by an overpowering urge to salvation in
the next life; a longing that God should forgive
them when they came before Him, they set out to
conquer the hearts of the people. When Islam
