> Tableegh_a great initiative to dawah

[Indispensable Muslim]

Nowadays we lack the potential and capabilities tha allah has betowed on us
This initiative is very intricate and contructive in terms of propagation of deen and iman......we as a an ummah should never condescend the expertise and the reponsibilities allah has given

i have compiled the the network of the tableegh and its affirmations and their compliance with the quran and sunnah

The da'wah of the Jama'ah at-Tableegh is based upon spreading the merits of Islam to everyone they are able to reach. This entails it's adherents to give up some of their time to go out and spread and propogate the da'wah keeping well away from political and partisan issues.

It's members are compelled into going out (khurooj) to give da'wah and mix with the Muslims in their masajid, houses and businesses and give words of advice and encourage them to come out with them to give da'wah.

They advise that no members should get themselves involved in any quarrels with the Muslims or the government.

Thoughts and beliefs

The founder stipulated six maxims which he established as the fundamentals of his da'wah, with all members taking care to memorise them and propogate them in their da'wah efforts:

1) al-Kalimah at-Tayyibah (declaration of faith - ((La ilaha il-Allah Muhammad Rasool-Allah))) ;

2) al-Khushoo' fis-salah (offering prayers with full concentration);

3) al-'Ilm wadh-Dhikr (knowledge and remembrance);

4) Ikram al-Muslimeen (honouring the Muslims);

5) al-Ikhlas (sincerity);

6) al-Khurooj fee sabeel-Allah (going out in the path of Allah).

Their manner of propogating their da'wah is as follows:

A group from amongst them is designated to go to a particular area/town/country, whereby each member of the goup takes with them basic means upon which to sleep and other basic items which shall suffice.

When they arrive at their destination, they organise themselves in a manner whereby some of them begin cleaning the place where they shall be resting during their stay in the area; Whilst others amongst them will go out to the market places and the like remembering Allah and calling the people to listen to their talk (bayan - as they call it).

When the time for the bayan arrives, they all gather together to listen to it. And after the bayan has finished, they request members of the gathering to come out with them in the path of Allah. And after Salat al-Fajr, they divide the group of people who are present into groups where a group leader is appointed for each group. Then the group leader undertakes the responsibility of teaching his group members Soorah al-Fatihah and other small Soorah's of the Qur.an. They continue in this way day in day out.

Before their period of stay is over, they encourage the people of the area to come out with them to spread their da'wah, such that some people volunteer to join them for three days or a week or a month. Each one according to his ability and circumstances, their giving up their time in accordance with the saying of Allah:

{You are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind}, [Soorah Aal-'Imran, Aayah 110].

And the preferred time for going out is a day in a week, and three days in a month and 40 days in a year and 4 months in a lifetime.

[IbnAbdulHakim]

assalamu alaikum


interesting ive always heard of tableegh but honestly havent had enough interaction to know much abuot them. I do know tableeghi's have invited my friends/cousins even uncles to stay over at the mosque for days, sometimes for 40 days.

[Abdul-Fattah]

Selam aleykum
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Question:
What is the ruling on the 40 days and 4 months to the different part of world to call Muslim brothers towards duties of islam?

Answer:
Praise be to Allah.

?Jama?at al-Tableegh? is one of the groups that are working for Islam. Their efforts in calling people to Allah (da?wah) cannot be denied. But like many other groups they make some mistakes, and some points should be noted concerning them. These points may be summed up as follows, noting that these mistakes may vary within this group, depending on the environment and society in which they find themselves. In societies in which knowledge and scholars are prevalent and the madhhab of Ahl al-Sunnah wa?l-Jama?ah is widespread, the mistakes are much less; in other societies these mistakes may be greater. Some of their mistakes are:

1 ? Not adopting the ?aqeedah of Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jama'ah. This is clearly seen from the variations in the ?aqeedah of some of their members and even of some of their leaders.

2 ? Their not paying attention to shar?i knowledge.

3 ? Their misinterpretation of some Qur?anic verses in a manner that was not intended by Allah. For example they interpret the verses on jihad as referring to ?going out for da?wah?. The verses which mentioned the word khurooj (going out) etc. are interpreted by them as meaning going out for da?wah.

4 ? They make their system of going out for da?wah an act of worship. So they started to misquote the Qur?an to support their system which specifies certain numbers of days and months. This system, which they think is based on evidence from Qur?an, is widespread among them in all countries and environments.

5 ? They do some things that go against sharee?ah, such as appointing one of them to make du?a? for them whilst the group goes out for da?wah, and they think that their success or failure depends on whether or not this man was sincere and his du?a? accepted.

6 ? Da?eef (weak) and mawdoo? (fabricated) ahadeeth are widespread among them, and this is not befitting for those who aim to call people to Allah.

7 ? They do not speak of munkarat (evil things), thinking that enjoining what is good is sufficient. Hence we find that they do not speak about evils that are widespread among the people, even though the slogan of this ummah ? which they continually repeat ? is:

?Let there arise out of you a group of people inviting to all that is good (Islam), enjoining Al-Ma?roof (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do) and forbidding Al-Munkar (polytheism and disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden). And it is they who are the successful?

[Aal ?Imran 3:104 ? interpretation of the meaning]

The successful are those who enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, not just those who do only one of the two.

8 ? Some of them fall into self-admiration and arrogance, which leads them to look down on others, and even to look down on the scholars and describe them as inactive and sleeping, or to show off. So you find them talking about how they went out and travelled, and they saw such and such, which leads to unfavourable results, as we have mentioned.

9 ? They regard going out for da?wah as better than many acts of worship such as jihad and seeking knowledge, even though those things are obligatory duties, or may be obligatory for some people but not others.

10 ? Some of them audaciously issue fatwas, and discuss tafseer and hadeeth. That is because they allow each one of them to address the people and explain to them. This leads to them speak audaciously on matters of sharee?ah. So the inevitably speak of the meaning of a ruling, hadeeth or verse when they have not read anything about it, or listened to any of the scholars. And some of them are new Muslims or have only recently come back to Islam.

11- Some of them are negligent with regard to the rights of their children and wives. We have discussed the seriousness of this matter in the answer to question no. 3043.

Hence the scholars do not allow people to go out with them, except for those who want to help them and correct the mistakes that they have fallen into.

We should not keep the people away from them altogether, rather we must try to correct their mistakes and advise them so that their efforts will continue and they will be correct according to the Qur?an and Sunnah.

There follow the fatwas of some of the scholars concerning Jama?at al-Tableegh:

1 ? Shaykh ?Abd al-?Azeez ibn Baz said:

Jama?at al-Tableegh do not have proper understanding of the issues of ?aqeedah, so it is not permissible to go out with them, except for one who has knowledge and understanding of the correct ?aqeedah of Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jama'ah, so that he can guide them and advise them, and cooperate with them in doing good, because they are very active, but they need more knowledge and someone who can guide them of those who have knowledge of Tawheed and the Sunnah. May Allah bless us all with proper understanding of Islam and make us steadfast in adhering to it.

Majmoo? Fatawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baz, 8/331

2 ? Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan said:

Going out for the sake of Allah does not refer to the kind of going out that they mean nowadays. Going out for the sake of Allah means going out to fight. What they call going out nowadays is a bid?ah (innovation) that was not narrated from the salaf.

Going out to call people to Allah cannot be limited to a certain number of days, rather one should call people to Allah according to one's abilities, without limiting that to a group or to forty days or more or less than that.

Similarly the da?iyah must have knowledge. It is not permissible for a person to call people to Allah when he is ignorant. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):

?Say (O Muhammad): This is my way; I invite unto Allah (i.e. to the Oneness of Allah ? Islamic Monotheism) with sure knowledge?

[Yoosuf 12:108]

i.e., with knowledge, because the caller must know that to which he calls people, what is obligatory, mustahabb, haram and makrooh. He has to know what shirk, sin, kufr, immorality and disobedience are; he has to know the degrees of denouncing evil and how to do it.

The kind of going out that distracts people from seeking knowledge is wrong, because seeking knowledge is an obligation, and it can only be achieved by learning, not by inspiration. This is one of the misguided Sufi myths, because action without knowledge is misguidance, and hoping to acquire knowledge without learning is an illusion.

From Thalath Mihadarat fi?l-?Ilm wa?l-Da?wah.

And Allah knows best.

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[Indispensable Muslim]

apparently tabllegh sects strictly follow to the quran and sunnah and have no discrepancies whatsoever......compared to other sects they have sincere conviction in changing the world of corruption ....and spread islam to every corner of the world

[Indispensable Muslim]

Before their period of stay is over, they encourage the people of the area to come out with them to spread their da'wah, such that some people volunteer to join them for three days or a week or a month. Each one according to his ability and circumstances, their giving up their time in accordance with the saying of Allah:

{You are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind}, [Soorah Aal-'Imran, Aayah 110].

[salman]

Originally Posted by Indispensable Muslim

apparently tabllegh sects strictly follow to the quran and sunnah and have no discrepancies whatsoever......compared to other sects they have sincere conviction in changing the world of corruption ....and spread islam to every corner of the world

As-Salamu 'Alaykum bro

sadly what you're saying is not entirely correct; to laymen like ourselves it may seem true what you're saying; however, in the fatwa posted by brother 'Abdul Fattah, Shaykh Salih Al-Munajjid (May Allah bless him) mentioned few key points, which I personally have found in the people who become the 'ameer of the group of the people. They have ashari 'aqeedah; they hardly talk about 'aqeedah or bid'ah issues; they heavily relay on mawdo' and da'eef ahadith in regard to fadail. I'm sure you're aware of the book fadail 'amal; it has tons of mawdo' narrations and it doesn't suite a dai' to relay on them.

The first thing that a dai' has to do is to call people to tawheed and the 'aqeedah of ahle sunnah wal jama'h or at least tell people the 'aqeedah of ahle sunnah wal jama'h and how we differ from heretics and deviants i.e. Ash'aris, Mu'tazilis, Murji'is and Matireedis. I put together a good article on this topic few days ago and you can read it here

May Allah and His Rasoul (sal-allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) be our sources of guidance, ameen.

wallahu a'alim

[Indispensable Muslim]

excuse me it has come to my attention that tableegh...its a duty for every muslim to propagate islam and deen to their best ability....and allow deen to prosper and linger throughout the world... i strictly commend their contribution and dedication... what are the other s achieving .......we need to reach to parts of the world where christainity is being preached....

[Indispensable Muslim]

the fadail amal is a compilation of ahadiths accentuating various hayatus sahaba, dhikr, .quran and is based on maqsad, virtues and the means of propagating it and also with greAT COMMENTARIES....READ THE BOOK IT DOES NOT LACK AUTHENTIC AHADITH

[salman]

As-Salamu 'Alaykum

akhi kareem, I never said that there're no good things as a result of tableegh jamat's da'wah or there're no authentic ahadith in fadail a'mal. But you need to understand that correcting the 'aqeedah and calling people to the correct 'aqeedah is the first thing in Islam. Tableegh Jama'at is Ash'ari in 'aqeedah, which is not the 'aqeedah of Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'h. How can they go out and give da'wah without having the correct 'aqeedah? The fatwa quoted by brother explains it clearly!

[hafizsaad]

Originally Posted by salman

As-Salamu 'Alaykum

akhi kareem, I never said that there're no good things as a result of tableegh jamat's da'wah or there're no authentic ahadith in fadail a'mal. But you need to understand that correcting the 'aqeedah and calling people to the correct 'aqeedah is the first thing in Islam. Tableegh Jama'at is Ash'ari in 'aqeedah, which is not the 'aqeedah of Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'h. How can they go out and give da'wah without having the correct 'aqeedah? The fatwa quoted by brother explains it clearly!

Brother salman please give a proof for your claim that ashari aqeedah are committing kufr.you have at once throw them out of islam.

Are Ash'aris & Maturidies Ahlus-Sunnah? Should Ta'weel (interpretation) be made in Aqeedah?
By Mufti Ebraheem Desai
Q.) A sheikh said Ahl-us-Sunnah wal Jamah are those who follows the thought of Imam ibn Taymiyyah, that is to believe in Allahs' sifat (attributes) without doing taweel (interpretation). The Ash'aris and Maturidies do taweel which is not the way of the salaf. Therefore they are not from the Ahlus-Sunnah. My question is that I follow the fiqh of Imam Abu Hanifah and I believe that I am a Maturidie. Am I not then from Ahlus-Sunnah? Please answer my question in detail. [Ansar Ali]

A.) The Maturidis and the Ash'aris are from the Ahlus-Sunnah wal Jamaa. Hereunder is a brief explanation on their beliefs regarding the Sifat of Allah.

Basically, the Ulama of Aqaaid (beliefs) are of two categories,
a) The Salaf (former Ulama),
b) Mutakallimeen (Ulama of Aqeedah)

Imam al-Nawawiy (RA) mentions in his commentary of Sahih Muslim, 'There are two famous Madhabs with regards to the beliefs of the Sifaat of Allah:

1) The Madhab of majority of the Salaf and a few Mutakallimeen is to believe in the reality of the Sifaat of Allah in accordance to whatever is appropriate for Allah. The apparent known meanings of those Sifaat are not meant. No Ta'weel (interpretation) should be made in the matter.

2) The Madhab of most of the Mutakallimeen and a few of the Salaf like Imaam al-Nawawiy and Imaam al-Awzaa'ee is that Ta'weel will be made.

Both these Madhabs are unanimously accepted.

Actually, our Aqeeda is in accordance with the first Madhab. The second Madhab came about because there were many misled groups in the latter times, like al-Mujassamah who believe that Allah has the same qualities as human beings. The Mutakallimeen had to refute these misled groups. To do so they made Ta'weelaat (interpretations) by stating that these verse are not in their literal sense, but indicate Power, Majesty, etc. In making Ta'weel, they did not intend to oppose the Salaf, but to oppose the misled groups. The Mutakallimeen have stated that if they were in the era of the Salaf, they would not have made any Ta'weel in the verse of Sifaat.

As for Imaam al-Maturidee (who the Hanafis generally follow in beliefs) and Imaam al-Awzaa'ee (who the Shaafi'ee generally follow in belief), they both believe in not making Ta'weel. (see Muqaddamah of Kitaab al-Tawhid of Imaam al-Maturide by Shaykh Fathullah Khaleef pgs.10-11). This is basically the view of the Ahlus sunnah Wal Jamaa.

As for ibn Taymiyah (RA) believing in the Sifaat of Allah without Ta'weel, the Shaykh is correct in his statement. (Fataawa ibn Taymiyah vol.6 pg.213; Cairo)

As for the statement of the Shaykh that the Ahlus Sunnah are confined to those that follow the thoughts of ibn Taymiyah, this is incorrect as explained above.

The scholars of the Maturidee and Ash'ari schools of thought who came after the founders of these schools adopted the view of making Ta'weel to combat the deviated sects of their respective eras. But, these scholars knew the limits of making Ta'weel.

We advise that we maintain the belief of the Salaf, i.e. we don't make Ta'weel because:

1) This was the belief of Imaam al-Maturidee (and we are Maturidees)

2) The latter Ulama only made Ta'weel because of Dhuroorah (i.e. necessity in combating the deviated sects).

3) These Ulama who made Ta'weel, they knew the limits of Ta'weel.

Shaykh Taqi-u-ddin Ahmad ibn Taymiyah was a prominent Aalim (scholar) of Deen. Shaykh Taqi-u-ddin had his independent views on many matters based on his vast knowledge and research. It is incorrect for non-scholars and non-academics to pass a judgment especially on such learned people. They should fear Allah and abstain from engaging themselves in such discussions. Differences of opinion is a salient feature among the Ulama-e-Haqq (true scholars).
And Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

see also Imam Ash'ari (RA) Repudiating Asha'rism ?




Other Criticism and confusion about Tablighi Jamahat:

this jamahat is exposed more by the Print and electronic media of america and europe and there is a great propeganda on every channel about tablighi jamahat (You can search youtube) but their style of dawah is so peacful and clear that american and european could not found any way of objection on them..
when i have start search on this Jamahat i come to know not only europe and america there is also much propeganda in arab countries against them..i am sorry to say they are called 'Khawarij" , 'Munafiq' by Many sects and People when i start reading and listening their comments ,i come to know how much confusion and propeganda about the work exits...but i feel here the criticism is not due to mistake of tablighi jamahat there are some other background i think that was the effect of propeganda and confusion created by bidhatti, shia and 'Gair muqalideen' ('Gair muqalideen',who say following of any fiqha imaam is shirk). but I think all these is the misconception about them .

I don't say the tablighi jamahat is a perfect there are many mistake in them like all other jamahats but their possitive effect on the society are more...there is a change in the whole world due to their revolutionary works but strick to the style of sahaba and their sacrifices..

Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about The Tablighi Jamahat and he said:

Usually in every issue there are two extremes and a middle way. Some people praise this group a great deal and encourage going out with them; others condemn them a great deal and warn against them more than they would warn you about a lion. And some people tread a middle path between those two extremes.

I think that there is some good in this group; they call others to Islam and have a clear influence that no other daaiyahs have had. How many kaafirs have become believers at their hands, and how many evildoers has Allaah guided through them ?

Moreover they have an attitude of humility and selflessness that is not found in many others.

Some people say that they have no knowledge of hadeeth, and so on.

They are undoubtedly good people, but I think that those of them who are in Saudi do not go to Pakistan or other countries, and we do not know anything about the aqeedah of those people (in other countries) or their manhaj (methodology). But there is nothing wrong with the manhaj followed by our companions here in Saudi.

With regard to limiting dawah to three or four days, or to two or four or six months, or two years, there is no shari evidence for that. But they think that this has to do with organization. If a person goes out for three days, and knows that he is limited to these three days, he will focus his mind and forget about worldly matters. This is the matter of organization, and is not an act of worship or a matter of shareeah.

I think, may Allaah bless you, that if you have the opportunity to seek knowledge then it is better to do that, because seeking knowledge is good and the people nowadays have a great need for scholars who have knowledge of the Sunnah and who are well-versed in knowledge. If you are not able to seek knowledge, and you go out with them in order to purify yourself, there is nothing wrong with that. There are many people whom Allaah has guided at their hands.
Al-Baab al-Maftooh, no. 10, P. 304.

And Allaah is the Source of strength



Majority of the people joining Tablighi Jamaat are ignorant of Deen and they spend their time in the path of Allah to learn about all these rules and regulations taught by Rasoolullah SAW.
As they said them to be students so we must also ignore their faults and try to teach them accordingly as most of them are not really familiar with the environments of the Masjids and Madrassas as we use to be. The personal mistake should not considered to blame the whole .

Basic Belief, Track, Aqeeda of Tablighi Jamahat:

People are contributing in tablighi Jamahat from all over the world therefore there is not a strick fiqha following as people from all four fiqha are doing this work and their relevant Scholor and Ulama guide them according to their Fiqha and there is no strick discussion on Controversial between fiqha but just the tahleem (Education) of Basic Aqaid( of Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'h.)/Ahmal and Masial. Anyhow The Ulamah to whome Allah has bestowed to reintroduce this work of Prophet (PBUH) And Sahaba r.a in Sub continents and first time , they are the followers of imaam Abu Hanif R.a and relates to the Maslik (Track) Of Deoband in Sub-continent.

For the complete knowledge about the Maslak (Track) / Aqaid Of Ulama e deoband And tablighi Jamahat see link In English In Arabic



FATWA ABOUT TABLIGHI JAMAHAT AND THEIR WORKS :

Q: Difference between Ahal-Sunnah wal jamah and tableegh jamat ?

Answer 13322 :

Tableegh means to convey. Jamaat means a group. Collectively, it means a group of people who convey. Contextually, it refers to people who conveys the message of Islam to non-Muslims and also remind Muslims of their duties. This was the effort of all the Prophet of Allah, including Rasulullah [sallallaahu alayhi wasallam] and his Sahaaba [Radhiallaahu anhum] who are referred to as Ahlus Sunnah (those that adhere to the Sunnah of Rasulullah - sallallaahu alayhi Wasallam) Wal Jamaa (and those who adhere to the group of the Prophets ? the Sahaaba - Radhiallaahu anhum)

Those that engage in Tabligh are all adherents of the Ahlus sunnah wal Jamaa.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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