Tabligh Movement
1. MAULANA ILYAS
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After completing his school education, he went on
to higher studies. Soon he was offered the post of
teacher at the Mazahirul Islam religious school at
Saharanpur. But before long, new opportunities
opened out before him, and his training period
commenced. His father had set up a small religious
school in Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin to impart free
education to poor students. After the death of his
father, the elder brother had taken charge of it.
When, on this sad occasion, he came home to offer
his condolence the people who were running the
school insisted on his staying there and taking up
his father’s cause. He acceded to their request.
Now there began a new phase in his life. It was at
this place that he first came into contact with the
Mewatis. Distressed by their religious and spiritual
poverty, he set himself to reform their condition
through religious education. The initial stimulus for
his work thus came from Mewati Muslims. Gaining
momentum gradually, the work of bringing people
closer to the path of God, spread far and wide.
Mewat is a region situated to the south of Delhi, its
inhabitants being known as Meo. These people
