Tabligh Movement
2. HAZRATJI
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people from all walks of life, of diverse abilities and
profession. A great achievement indeed, and quite
unprecedented.
A contemporary of his, and a well-known scholar,
Maulana Mohd. Manzoor Nomani, has narrated
how a Tabligh gathering was held in Moradabad
only a few months after the death of Maulana
Mohd. Ilyas. At that time, the idea of sparing time
for Tabligh had not become a common practice in
areas other than Mewat. Maulana Mohd. Yousuf
delivered a speech after the morning prayer. When
it was over, some of the members began to exhort
the people to register their names as participants in
the outdoor religious activities of the movement.
But only a few people came forward. For the
dispatching of missionary parties to Bijnore,
Chandpur and Rampur, not even a group of ten
people could be formed. On learning of their
apathy, Maulana Yousuf, who had gone inside the
mosque after his speech, came back out, picked up
the microphone and began thus: “Today you are
reluctant to travel to such nearby places. A time will
come when you will go to Syria, Egypt, Iraq, but by
then your rewards will have diminished, because
