Tablighi Jamaat

Lately, a religious congregation in Nizamuddin Markaz has been created uproar across the country  named 'Tablighi Jamaat' , that led unprecedented surge in covid-19 cases across the board leading to several deaths and many more are still facing the grim situation because of the coronavirus in the course of time.There has been a rapid surge of 30% cases because of the Tablighi Jamaat that has deemed as country's Achilles heel in the  battle against coronavirus.The reasons behind the spread are not difficult to understand,Jamaat gatherings bring thousands of followers in close social proximity eating, praying and living in crowded dormitories. Jamaat activ-ists also travel frequently to teach, preach and proselytise people thus increasing the risk of spread.  Maulana Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi, the leader of the or-ganisation that claims to have over 100 million followers worldwide, including 25 million in India alone, has now gone into self-quarantine at an undisclosed location. The Delhi police have filed an FIR against the maulana and the crime branch has issued two notices to him to appear before them. As of April 3, the Union home ministry said, nearly 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts had been quarantined across the country.

Tablighi Jamaat founder Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi inherited after his older brother passed away in 1915.Tablighi Jamaat, Arabic for ‘the group that propagates the faith’, in 1926. After bringing the Mewatis, a community of Muslim Rajputs in modern Haryana, back into the Tab-lighi fold, the maulana expanded the Jamaat across the Indian subcontinent. The missionaries, or Tablighis, can be easily identified by their attire and appearance,long Pathani kurtas with salwars touching the ankles, distinctive turbans with sashes, and flowing beards with shaved upper lips.
Tablighis still go among Muslims, urging them to offer namaaz five times a day, sport Islamic attire and abstain from ‘un-Islamic’ practices such as worshipping at the tombs of Muslim saints.It was Kandhlawi’s son Maulana Muhammad Yusuf who expanded the movement outside India to Pakistan, Southeast Asia and Europe in the 70s. A decade ago, several prominent members of the Pakistan cricket team, including captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, were Tablighi Jamaat adherents. The organisation’s movements, though, are restricted in Saudi Arabia and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which endorse their own brands of puritanical Sunni Islam ,Salafism and Wahhabism.

The Tablighi Jamaat is not under the radar in India alone,It has been accused of being cluster spreaders of the coronavirus in oth-er countries as well. Pakistan has placed the entire town of Raiwind, south of Lahore, under quarantine,this was where over 200,000 Jamaat activists gathered mid-March. In Malaysia, a late February gathering of some 16,000 Jamaat followers led to the detection of 620 COVID-19 cases a week later.
The unfortunate incident regarding the Tablighi Jamaat is being used to demonise and blame the entire Muslim community,’ the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind said in a statement. The organisation has also moved the Supreme Court, seeking directives to the government to stop the dissemination of coronavirus-related fake news portraying Muslims in poor light. Wasim Shaikh, president of the Sunni Youth Wing, that preaches against terrorism.

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