Tablighi Jamaat’s Convention for Conversion and Propagation of Islam
In the past few years activities of the controversial Islamic organization Tablighi Jamaat
intensified. Recently in the Aurangabad district’s Limbe-Jalgaon a Mahasammelan of Muslims was organized in which over 50 lakh Muslims were claimed to have participated.
According to Aurangabad Times (February 27), the number of participants in this
Mahasammelan was around 50 lakh as per the police information. Addressing this conference chief of Tablighi Jamaat Maulana Saad appealed to Muslims to get into propagation and give at least 40 days to propagation of Islam and conversion. Muslims must spent money on madarsa which is the biggest jihad of the time. Maulana emphasized on the fact that internet and mobile must also be used to convert non-Muslims to Islam. Every Muslim household must give education of Quran and Hadith. Aurangabad Times published news report regarding this for four days.
Aurangabad Times in its February 25 issue threw light on two special campaigns for conversion in Islam. One of the write ups claimed that Darul Uloom Deoband was established in 1966 for propagation of Islam so maximum number of people could be converted to Islam. A new lease of life was given to this campaign by Maulana Ilyas when he formed Tablighi Jamaat. It is not only that Islam is surviving in India due to it rather their number is increasing at the very fast rate. It is the duty of every Muslim to convert as much non-Muslims to Islam as possible else he will have to answer on the dooms day that why did he not convert people to Islam? The God will not forget him
for this mistake. Addressing the conference member of the executive committee of Jamate Islami Arif Ali appealed to the Muslims of the world to get involved in propagating Islam and make it the second big religion of the world. He said that last year 150 such Tablighi Ijtema (conferences) were organized. Islamic Iztima in Limbe-Jalgaon was organized in 600 acres which had the sitting arrangement for 50 lakh people. There were 104 food canteens to distribute free food in which 10,000 people could have been served food at a time. Around 18 thousand toilets and 9 thousand loudspeakers were used.
Aurangabad Times claimed that cost of this huge gathering was borne by Muslims themselves and did not take any help from the government. However, managers of this programme refused to give any detail of the programme including expanses. This has been in the controversy from the beginning only.
According to Akhbar Mashriq (February 20), initially the Maharashtra government did not allow organizing this programme. The police asked the managers that how much money was being spent on it and who is bearing the money but managers did not allow such questions to be asked. The local police of Limbe-Jalgaon asked village headman Aneesh Amir Patel by writing a letter that this Mahasammelan has been banned. The police said that permission was required to be taken three-months in advance for the programme of such a magnitude. Suddenly whose pressure was on the government that this was allowed?
According to Urdu Times (February 24), around 20 thousand busses had gone to Aurangabad from greater Mumbai. Besides that lakhs of Muslims from Marathwada and other parts of Maharashtra reached there on their own vehicles.
Source-Review of Urdu Press, India Policy Foundation, Issue:-1 March -31 March, 2018
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