Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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prophetic way, and would explain it accordingly.
This is, no doubt, the most appropriate definition of
his work. Considering that there are people who
attach importance to things only when they are
described in the modern terminologies of
psychology, philosophy and science and so on, this
programme can likewise be described in any
language they can understand, or which has a
special significance for them. His message gives
prime importance to the Kalimah: to believe in the
reality that there is no deity but God, that He alone
is the Creator and Nourisher of the universe, and
that the truth had been made manifest through his
messenger, the Prophet Mohammad (on whom be
peace). When one recites these words: there is no
deity but God and the Prophet Mohammad is His
messenger, it amounts to expressing one’s inner
feelings of conviction of the truth of these words. It
also proclaims one’s determination to follow a path
based on the firm conviction that God is the only
real existence, centre of all our complete trust. This
proclamation is an expression of an all-pervasive
feeling within one of having at last found the true
way of life and also the source from which the truth
