Tabligh Movement
3. UMMAH-NESS
Islamic Brotherhood
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bringing Ummah into being. For a community to
lay claim to the divine succour, worship and the
imparting of religious knowledge are not by
themselves sufficient. Take the case of Abu Muljim,
the murderer of the fourth Caliph. When people in
a fit of anger rushed to avenge the murder by
cutting his tongue off, he said ‘Do whatever you
will, but spare my tongue to enable me to utter
God’s name till my last breath.’ Yet the Prophet had
foretold that Ali’s murderer would be one of the
most hard-hearted and one of the most wretched
members of his community. And so far as
imparting religious knowledge is concerned, Abul
Fazl and Faizi, the Emperor Akbar’s courtiers, were
so competent and well-versed that they could
perform the feat of writing a complete commentary
of the Holy Quran without using those letters of the
alphabet which have points. But they were the very
ones who led Akbar astray and perverted the
religion itself. How then can worship and religious
learning alone suffice to elicit the divine succour?
“The great warriors Shah Ismail Shaheed and Syed
Ahmed Shaheed and their followers were, by all
