An Objection Against the Tablighi Jamaat and Its Answer

Question

It was not merely my opinion but my conviction that in the present age the Tablighi Jamaat is performing an important religious service, that this endeavour is to a great extent becoming a means of reforming the Muslim umma and in the future may become a means of guidance for non-Muslims as well; I also held that the purpose of this jamaat is very sacred and lofty — not merely the preaching of the kalima and prayer — and I regarded its method of work as being in accordance with the spirit of the Book and the Sunna.

Answer

The Jamaat-e-Islami, in accordance with the principles it has devised for itself (the sacrifice of which is probably impossible for it), engages in destructive criticism of other jamaats and individuals, and in its own view it is almost compelled to do so; and this criticism at times reaches such a point that in the minds of readers there forms the notion about those jamaats…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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