Tabligh Movement
4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN
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the improvement of Ummah (the community of
believers), lying in prostration until the call to
prayer was announced by a Muezzin (crier). About
300 men stood in rows to perform their dawn
prayers.
When the prayer had finished, an announcement
was made for people to stay, as a speech was going
to be made shortly, its topic being, ‘The
Relationship between Religion and the World’.
Simple words, spontaneity, striking, familiar,
immediate similes, psychological expressiveness
aimed at exciting religious zeal, a simple but
forceful logic understandable even to the common
man, far from the high flown words of religious
speeches and free from the boredom of a sermon-
these were, in short, the very fabric of the morning
speech. It continued till the sun rose high. But the
speech was so appealing that none of the listeners
would leave before the end. When it was over,
people were requested to offer their services and
join the Jama’at that was due to leave town in order
to spread the message among others. This
programme came to an end at half past eight.
