Maulana ilyas kandhalvi biography sample

Like many other South Asian Muslim religious groups, TJ has very strong Deobandi roots. Muhammad Ilyas Kandhalvi, the founder of the movement was a product of the Darul Uloom Deoband, the acclaimed institute of Islamic scholarship in India’s Uttar Pradesh, and taught at its closely associated madressah, the Mazahir-ul-Uloom in Saharanpur, before quitting his post and relocating to Nizamuddin in old Delhi, where he formally launched Tablighi Jamaat in 1927.

While the Deobandi movement, like many other Islamic groups, favours attainment of political power for the enforcement of Sharia, TJ elders want to focus on personal purification, saying political power will follow once the standard set by the companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) have been attained.

The TJ’s six core principles — absolute faith in Allah, devotion to the five daily prayers, acquiring knowledge and meditation, selfless service, sincerity and da’awah — are based on the characters of the companion of the Prophet (