Dar Tabligh

Dar Tabligh is covered here in 6 connected parts: Dar Tabligh, Tablighi Jamaat, Tabligh Akbar, Verse of tabligh, Tabligh (album), Haji Abdul Wahab.

Dar Tabligh

Dar Tabligh (دار السلام تبلف) is a sub-committee of the Khoja Shi'a Ithnasheri Jamaat of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Its activities include

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Tablighi Jamaat

Tablighi Jamaat (Urdu: تبلیغی جماعت, lit. 'Society of Preachers', also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") is an international Islamic religious movement. It focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant and encourages fellow members to return to practise their religion according to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and secondarily give dawah (calling) to non-Muslims. "One of the most widespread Sunni" islah (reform) and called "one of the most influential religious movements in 20th-century Islam," the organisation is estimated to have between 12 and 80 million adherents worldwide, spread over 150 countries, with the majority living in South Asia.^[3]

History

The emergence of Tablighi Jamaat also coincided closely with the rise of various Hindu revivalist movements such as Shuddhi (purification) and Sanghatan (consolidation) launched in the early twentieth century to reconvert Hindus who had converted to Islam and Tablighi Jamaat has been called a "missionary offshoot" of the revivalist Deobandi movement of India.^[3]

Origin

Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi, the founder of Tablighi Jamaat, wanted to create a movement that would enjoin good and forbid evil as the Quran decreed, as his teacher Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi dreamed of doing. The inspiration for this came to Ilyas in a dream during his second pilgrimage to Mecca in 1926.^[3]

Expansion

The group began to expand its activities in 1946. The initial expansion within South Asia happened immediately after the partition of India in 1947, when the Pakistan Chapter was established in the hinterlands of Raiwind town near Lahore, Pakistan. The Pakistan Chapter remained the largest until Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971.^[3]

Foreign missions

The first foreign missions were sent to the Hejaz (western Saudi Arabia) and Britain in 1946. The United States followed and during the 1970s and 1980s the Tablighi Jamaat also established a large presence in continental Europe. In France it was introduced in the 1960s, and grew significantly in the two decades following 1970.^[3]

Beliefs and objectives

Members of Tabligh Jamat are allowed to follow their own fiqh as long as it does not deviate from Sunni Islam. Tablighi Jamaat defines its objective with reference to the concept of Dawah, the proselytising or preaching of Islam. Tablighi Jamaat interprets Dawah as enjoining good and forbidding evil only and defines its objective within the framework of two particular Qur'anic verses which refer to this mission.^[3]

Six Attributes (Sifāt)

When Tablighi Jamaat visits a village or neighborhood, it invites the local Muslims to assemble in the mosque to hear their message in the form of "Six Attributes". These six Attributes were derived from the lives of the companions of Muhammad, since Muslims believe Sahabah (companions) are the best human beings after Muhammad—It is stated in one hadith, "My Sahabah (companions) are like [guiding] stars, whosoever follows [any] one of them will be guided." The Six Sifāt are basically a discussion about six special Attributes that when achieved, will just make it easy to follow the entire Dīn. These objectives are:^[3]

Activities, traditions, methodology

The activism of Tablighi Jamaat can be characterised by the last of the Six Principles. This principle, Tafrigh-i-Waqt (English: sparing of time) justifies the withdrawal from World, though temporarily, for travelling. Travel has been adopted as the most effective method of personal reform and has become an emblematic feature of organisation.^[3]

Khurūj (proselytising tour)

Preaching tours hold an important position in the Tablighi Da'wah methodology that they may be referred as 'travelers in faith' Tabligh Jamaat encourages its followers to follow the pattern of spending "one night a week, one weekend a month, 40 continuous days a year, and ultimately 120 days at least once in their lives engaged in tabligh missions". During the course of these tours, members are generally seen dressed in simple, white, loose-clothing, carrying sleeping bags on their backs. These members use mosques as their base during this travel but particular mosques, due to more frequent tablighiyat activities, have come to be specifically associated with this organisation.^[3]

Ijtema (annual gathering)

An annual gathering of followers, called ijtema, is summoned at headquarters of the respective countries. A typical ijtema continues for three days and ends with an exceptionally long prayer. These gatherings are considered moments of intense blessings by Tabligh Jamaat members and are known to attract members in excess of 2 million in some countries.^[3]

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Tabligh Akbar

Tabligh Akbar is a large-scale Qur'anic recitation event or mass religious meeting held throughout the Indonesian archipelago. The event often accompanies khutbah (sermon), preaching, and dawah (proselytizing). The scale of Tabligh Akbar can vary, from the local level which fits within the local mosques, to the national level which rallies thousands of participants.^[6]

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Verse of tabligh

The Verse of tabligh (Arabic: آیة التَّبليغ, lit. 'verse of proclamation') refers to verse of 5:67 of the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, which readsيَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ ۖ وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُۥ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَO Messenger! Convey that which has been sent down unto thee from thy Lord, and if thou dost not, thou wilt not have conveyed His message. And God will protect thee from mankind.^[8]

Farewell Pilgrimage

Shortly before he died in 632 CE, the Islamic prophet Muhammad performed the Hajj ritual in Mecca, which has become known as his Farewell Pilgrimage. In his sermon in Mecca at Arafat, and also later at the Ghadir Khumm by some accounts, he alerted Muslims about his impending death. On his return trip to Medina after performing the Hajj, Muhammad called the Muslim caravan to a halt at the Ghadir Khumm (Arabic: غَدِير خُم, lit. 'pond of Khumm').^[8]

Ghadir Khumm

There Muhammad gave a sermon in which he announced, "Anyone who has me as his mawla, has this Ali as his mawla," (Arabic: من كنت مولاه فهذا على مولاه) as reported by some canonical Sunni and Shia sources, including Musnad Ibn Hanbal and al-Ghadir. In particular, the former source adds that Muhammad repeated this statement three or four times and that his companion Umar congratulated Ali after the sermon, "You have now become mawla of every faithful man and woman."^[8]

Interpretations

While the authenticity of the Ghadir Khumm is rarely contested, the interpretation of the Arabic word mawla (Arabic: مولاه) is a source of controversy between Sunni and Shia. In this context, Shia sources interpret this word as meaning 'leader', 'master', or 'patron', and thus see the Ghadir Khumm as the appointment of Ali to succeed Muhammad on both the spiritual and temporal levels, while Sunni accounts of this sermon tend to offer little explanation or substitute the word wali (of God, lit. 'friend of God') in place of mawla. Sunni authors argue that Muhammad did not explicitly refer to Ali as his successor in his sermon, while the Shia writer Abdul Hosein Amini (d.^[8]

Sunni view

Sunni scholars proffer various theories about the verse of tabligh. Possibly because the verse is placed in the context of a critical discussion of the People of the Book (adherents of earlier monotheistic faiths, ahl al-kitab), some Sunni authors conclude that Muhammad was hesitant to convey this criticism. Such is the view of al-Tabari (d.^[8]

Shia view

Shia traditions relate the verse of tabligh to the Ghadir Khumm, stressing that Muhammad was concerned about implementing his divine instruction, fearing the reaction of some of his companions. It was only after the revelation of the verse of tabligh, which urged him to fulfill his task and ensured his safety, that Muhammad gave his sermon at the Ghadir Khumm. There he announced the spiritual authority (walaya) of Ali over Muslims, according to the Shia interpretation of the event.^[8]

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Tabligh (album)

Tabligh is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith which was recorded live at the CalArts Creative Music Festival in 2005 and released on Cuneiform. It was the third recording by his Golden Quartet with a new electro-acoustic lineup featuring pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson.^[10]

Background

Smith had brought these musicians together in 2004, and in the spring 2005 they did an extensive European tour. Their world premiere at the Banlieues Bleues Festival was filmed by French filmmaker Jacques Goldstein for a documentary called Eclipse. “Rosa Parks” was written for the African American Civil Rights activist who died a month before the concert.^[10]

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Smith, in his sixties, is not only as inventive and adventurous as he was when he was a younger player, but his creativity and ability to direct a band into new territory is actually farther reaching than ever before. This is brilliant work."^[10]

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Haji Abdul Wahab

Haji Abdul Wahhab (Urdu: حاجی عبد الوہاب, 1 January 1923 – 18 November 2018) was an Islamic preacher and the emir of Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan.^[13]

Early life and education

Muhammad Abdul Wahhab was born in Delhi, British India, in 1923 into a Rajput family originally from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.^[13]

Tabligh Jamaat

Abdul Wahhab joined the Tabligh Jamaat during the life of its founder, Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi. He arrived at Nizamuddin markaz on 1 January 1944. He got the sohbah of Maulana Ilyas for six months.^[13]

Negotiations with Pakistani Taliban

In October 2013 it was reported that the name of Haji Abdul Wahhab was suggested to head a Loya Jirga in preparation for peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban. In February 2014 it was reported that during consultations with a committee, TTP commanders of different factions recommended that the names of Haji Abdul Wahhab, Maulana Sami'ul Haq, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, and other leaders be added in the government peace committee.^[13]

Reception

As of the 2014/2015 issue, he was ranked #10 in The Muslim 500, a list of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world, due to his leadership of the Tablighi Jamaat.^[13]

Death and funeral

He was buried in a graveyard adjacent to Tableeghi Markaz (Headquarter) at Raiwind the same day.^[13]

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