Jamaats (group of people) from 35 countries participating in ‘Aalami Tablighi Ijtima’
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: “In today’s world, conflict exists because everybody wants to get his/her rights without ever fulfilling others rights. If everyone takes up the task of fulfilling the rights of others then no one’s rights would ever be violated.” These were the words with which the three-day 63rd “Aalami Tablighi Ijtima” (world preachers’ congregation) began on December 25, on the outskirts of Bhopal at Ghasipura in Eintkhedi village.
Devotees from 35 countries and nearly two dozen Indian states have assembled here to inculcate spiritual values so as to balance it with materialism to lead an upright life.
Maulana Mohammad Mustaqueem, one of the Tablighi leaders, called upon Muslims to resolve to fulfill the rights of others and to develop courage to forgive their own rights that are due to them. Giving an example highlighting, he said that the Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h.) did not construct any house for himself either in Makkah or Madinah.
Jamaats from 35 countries include those of Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, South Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Thailand, Philippines, France, Australia, the United Kingdom, China, Tunisia, Mauritania, Sweden, Italy, Mali, Algeria, Niger and Republic of Panama, prominent among others.
Tablighi Jamaat is a religious reformist movement, strictly non-political in nature, with the main aim of reaching out to all Muslims of the world for their spiritual development.
The religious movement was founded in the late 1920s by Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhalawi in the Mewat province of India. He put forward the slogan, “Aye Musalmano! Musalman bano” (‘O Muslims! Become Muslims’).