From: MANEJWZA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Tableeghi Jamaat
Date: 11 Apr 92 00:46:39 GMT
Reply-To: MANEJWZA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu
Originator: gwydion@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu


	Asallamu Alaikum
		The brother who posted the first in a series of articles to
be written concerning the tableeghi jamaat I believe really has no idea what
the Tableeghi jamaat is.  I have much to doubt his reasoning concerning the idea
that the jamat was a kuffar plot to destroy the Quran and Jihad Fi sabeelillah.
	Firstly, what is jihad in the first place?  Most of you who believe
that it concerns only the raising of arms already knows better.  The jamat
is niether a system of living that innovates the importance of wearing a beard
or using miswak nor is it a system that ignores Quran.  Firstly, Jihad is also
in the spritual sense. The lack of practicing the Sunnah is a result of much
of the problems that we have in Western world.  Now I agree that the situation
in India does call for a jihad against Kuffar that are ruling the Muslims.
However, as an Indian myself, the jammat truly stands out among the rest of 
the Muslims as the "practicing Muslims."  You will not find a single Masjid
in India that does not have a strong practice of Tableegh.  Tableegh, a word
that stands for walking out in the path of Allah to bring Muslims who try
yo follow the ways of the Non-Muslims (and Hindus, yes!) BACK into the proper
adaab (conduct of Islam). It also strengthens the ikram among the Muslims.  
The work that they have done is a responsibility for the Ummah of Islam.  That
is, to visit YOUR neighbor.  Your Muslim neighbors and see if they are 
making Salat, are fasting, are not drinking, or are not having businesses that
sell haram items.  Without this, there is no help from Allah. 
	Now as for the destruction of the Quran.  PLease elaborate what you
mean by this.  Muhammad (SAW) left 2 things for us,  the Quran and the Sunnah.

	The Quran is a tool for guidance.  It is for the god-fearing.  But how
do we recieve guidance from it?  Do we open it up and start reading it and
follwing what our interpretations of it is?  There are scholars who spend their
lives studying the Quran, the mufassirs, the Hadiths, the Sirah and the Salifs.
	Only those have the true understanding of the Quran.  Yet even that 
cannot help you. Not if you have a sincere desire to want to practice Islam,
and have fear in Allah, can one possibly benefit from the Quran.  This can only
come by making a sacrifice.  One cannot sit in his or her room and try to
get fear in Allah.  He or she cannot do that like someone who has
actually made a sacrifice for Islam by going out in the path of Islam.  The
Tablleghi jamat goes out in the path of Islam.  I see two types of people
sometimes.  One who feels that he or she can practice Islam in his or her
home alone, and then there is the Muslim who takes time out from his family,
and his work to spend time giving dawa to YOU and ME who are not doing the
same MAYBE.  The point is, the tableegi jamat is by no means a work of Kuffar.
It does not defame the Quran nor the Sunnah.  That is to remove it from the
status you have brought it down to.  On the other hand, the tableeghi jamat
gives respect and attends to the blessing of the Quran and the establishment
of Sunnah and Shariah.  
	Now briefly and finally, the jihad against the Hindus in India I and
some other people I know who take regular part in the jamat actually feel
that ther is a need to fight jihad in India.  Hence there support for the
establishment of Pakistan.  But what is Pakistan?  It does not even have
a Shariah in their constitution!  The problem is, are the Muslims in India
and Pakistan ready to die for the Establishment of Shariah?  ANd when they do,
are they going to bath themselves in the political semantics if they succed
as is their neighbor Pakistan?  There needs to be jihad in arms and tableegi
in words.  I am not against Jihad in India.  Why even the tableeghi jamat makes
dua for the mujahideen!  So the situation is a bit more complicated than
I can explain in a few pages.  That is, where and how should the Muslims fight
is extremely confusing right now.  If you can propose what you think needs to
be taken against the Indian Givernment, then we can work from there.  
	But, there is no reason for you to bash the jamat for their good work.
Not only in India but thier influence here where I think its needed more.  They
are not responsible for the hesitation Indian Muslims take towards Kashmir and
Babari Masjid et al!  And I find it appauling for someone to make such a harsh
claim calling it a Kuffar initiated movement!

							Wasalam
							And forgive me for
							anything I have
							said that offends you
							and that is lies
							against Islam.  
			
							Zafar
							Vanderbilt University