MALFOOZAT Maulana Muhammad Ilyas  (Paperback, Urdu, Maulana Manzoor Numani)

This a collection of words and reflections of Maulana Muhammad Ilyas The founder of the Tabligh Movement noted down by Maulana Muhammad Manzoor Nu'mani who is an established scholar and Historian from the Nadwa tul Ulemah. Maulana Muhammad Ilyas, the founder of the Tablighi Jamaat of South Asian subcontinent, is arguably one of the most influential, yet least well-known , figures of the twentieth century Islam. Despite his enormous contribution towards the development of a powerful grass root Islamic Da'wah movement, Mawlana Ilyas has not received much attention in the literature on modern Islamic movements. Most of the Western, and even Muslim, scholarships have remain occupied with the more spectacular and dramatic manifest ions of Islamic revivalist upsurge. The available literature on Maulana Ilyas and his Tablighi movement is mostly in Urdu and that too consists mainly of inspirational works by its leaders and devotional writings by its followers and supporters. Once when someone pointed out that his movement was "too narrowly focused" and did not address the larger issue of socio-political reforms in Muslim society, the Mawlana responded that this narrow focus in the initial phase of the movement was necessitated by the available manpower and that the movement could grow to encompass a larger and more comprehensive program in the future. It is unfortunate that those who succeeded Mawlana Ilyas did not realize his larger vision and saw the Mewat model of Dawah as eternally fixed. Nevertheless, the fruits of Mawlana Ilyas efforts are visible all over the world today.