Tablighi Jamaat
2009 Malaysian Annual Congregation of Tablighi Jamaat
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| Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi | |
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 Bangladesh
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 India
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 Pakistan
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 United Kingdom
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 Indonesia
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 Malaysia
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 Singapore
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 South Africa
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 Sri Lanka
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 Yemen
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 Kyrgyzstan
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 Russia
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 Somalia
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 Nigeria
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 United States
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 Canada
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 Mexico
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 Hong Kong
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 France
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 Germany
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 Tanzania
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 Brazil
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 Philippines
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 West Indies
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 Qatar
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 Jordan
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 Mauritania
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 Morocco
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 Algeria
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 Azerbaijan
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| Islam | |
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| Liturgical: Arabic In Bangladesh: Bengali In India and Pakistan: Urdu In the diaspora: In UK: Respective regional languages |
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Tablighi Jamaat (Urdu: تبلیغی جماعت, Tablīghī Jamā‘at; Arabic: جماعة التبليغ, Jamā‘at at-Tablīgh; Bengali: তাবলীগ জামাত; Hindi: तबलीग़ी जमात; English: Society for spreading faith) is a non-political global Sunni Islamic missionary movement that focuses on urging Muslims to return to primary Sunni Islam, and particularly in matters of ritual, dress, and personal behavior. The organisation is estimated to have between 12 million and 150 million adherents (the majority living in South Asia), and a presence in somewhere between 150 and 213 countries. It has been called "one of the most influential religious movements in 20th century Islam".
The movement was started in 1927 by Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi in India. Its stated primary aim is spiritual reformation of Islam by reaching out to Muslims across social and economic spectra and working at the grassroots level, to bring them in line with the group's understanding of Islam. The teachings of Tabligh Jamaat are expressed in "Six Principles" (Kalimah, Salat, Ilm, Ikraam-e-Muslim, Ikhlas-e-Niyyat, Dawat-o-Tableegh). Tablighi Jamaat believes that Muslims are in a constant state of spiritual Jihad in the sense of fight against evil, the weapon of choice is Dawah (proselytization) and that battles are won or lost in the "hearts of men."
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