Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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for the ocean to be formed. There has to be steam in
the engine for it to move at all.
There are two ways of working. One is to draft the
whole plan before the launching of the mission.
Another is to start with the basics, the foundations.
While the first method is adopted by the legislature,
the second is adopted by a movement, for the first
method will do the movement more harm than
good. That is why messengers of God emphasized
the basics in order that the foundation may take
root. In the early period of Islam only the
fundamentals were revealed for a long time. It was
only with the advance of time that other things
followed. Thus a solid foundation was gradually
built, without which no edifice can be constructed.
From the Islamic point of view, it is by the grace of
God that we are able to work on an individual or
social level. Man takes certain initiatives which
come to fruition only when God approves of and
blesses them.
Once a person asked the Maulana why the Muslims
were not entrusted with power on earth. He replied:
“When you are not applying God’s commandments
