Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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emanates – the only source whose guidance is
worthy of trust.
Trust and conviction are, in fact, the source of all re-
volution, be it religious or secular. A history of
revolution tells us that it was the courage of
conviction—right or wrong—in certain souls, which
has made history. The revolution of France: the
victory of Communism and the freedom
movements in various countries were all, in fact,
based on such conviction as stimulated them to
action. Initially none of these movements had
possessed either huge resources of armaments or
enormous wealth. They were unable even to
conceive fully of what shape their activities were
going to take in future; how their theories were
going to be put into practice. The only thing that
spurred them on to make unflagging efforts was a
concept which had preoccupied their thoughts. It
was the discovery of some political, economic or
nationalistic truths that inspired them to such a
degree that they concentrated all their potentialities
and energies on making it known to people. For
this, they accepted the challenge—however harsh it
was, of external opposition and engaged themselves
