Tabligh Movement
2. HAZRATJI
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2. HAZRATJI
Maulana Mohammed Yusuf, generally known to his
followers as Hazratji, was about to board a train
from Lahore to Saharanpur. Lahore had been the
last stage of a long missionary tour which had taken
him as far as Dhaka and to many other cities in both
West and East Pakistan. He had a very heavy and
demanding schedule, but following in the footsteps
of his father, Maulana Ilyas, he had never once
thought of sparing himself. Now he was going
home. But this was not to be, for on that fateful day,
the second of April 1965, he suffered a heart attack
which proved fatal. This was a tragedy, no doubt,
but it was one about which he had never allowed
himself to feel apprehensive. The Tabligh
movement came before all.
Maulana Mohd. Yousuf was born on 2nd March
1917. After the death of his father in 1944, he
persevered in the same path for 21 years till the end.
In this short span of time, a movement, which had
started from teaching the illiterate Mewati Muslims
the Kalimah and prayer, developed into a national
and then an international movement. It influenced
