Title Hazrat Ji Books Malfuzat | Name Muhammad Kandhlawi Denomination Deobandi | |
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Died July 13, 1944, Delhi, New Delhi Similar People Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Abul Hasan Ali Hasani N, Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi, Muhammad Abdul Wahhab, Muhammad Iqbal | ||
Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (Urdu: محمد الیاس بن محمد اسماعیل کاندھلوی دہلوی) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Sufi who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement. "Tablighi Jamaat was another group started for the reformation of Muslims, which was begun in 1926 in Mewat province by Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi."
Contents
- Name and lineage
- Early life and education
- Foundation of Tablighi Jamaat
- A summary of viewpoints on Tablighi Jamaat
- References
Name and lineage
He was Muhammad ibn Muhammad Ismail, Kandhlawi (of Kandhla) by birth and origin, then Dihlawi (of Delhi).
Early life and education
Muhammad was born in 1303 AH (1885/1886) in the village of Kandhla, Muzaffarnagar district, North-West Provinces, British India (in present-day Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh, India). His year of birth can be computed by the tarikhi (chronogrammatic) name "Akhtar Ilyas" (اختر الیاس) using abjad numerals.
He was the son of Muhammad Ismail and his second wife, Safiyah.
In a local maktab (school), he memorized one and a quarter ajza' of the Qur'an, and he completed memorizing the Qur'an under his father's supervision in Nizamuddin area, Delhi. Thereafter, he studied the elementary books of Arabic and Persian language mostly under his father.
Later on, he lived with and studied under Rashid Ahmad Gangohi. In 1905, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi died, when Muhammad was 20. In 1908, Muhammad enrolled in Darul Uloom Deoband.
Foundation of Tablighi Jamaat
In the early 1920s, he prepared a team of young madrasah graduates from Deoband and Saharanpur and sent them to Mewat to establish a network of mosques and Islamic schools movement. He once said that if he had to attribute a name to his movement, it would have been Tehreek-e-Imaan ('Imaan/Faith movement'). The people of South Asia started calling the devotees Tableeghi and this name eventually became popular among the common people.