Ilyas Kandhlawi

1st Amir of The Worldwide Tablighi Jamat (Grand founder of Dawah & Tablighi)

Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi

1st Amir of Tablighi Jamaat
Succeeded by| Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi
Title| Founder of Tableeghi Jamaat
Personal
Born|

Akhtar Ilyas

1885 (1302 Hijri year)

Kandhla, Muzaffarnagar, North-Western Provinces, British India

Died| July 13, 1944(1944-07-13) (aged 58–59) (1363 Hijri year)

Delhi, British India

Religion| Islam
Denomination| Sunni
Jurisprudence| Hanafi
Movement| Deobandi
Main interest(s)| Da'wah
Notable work(s)| Tablighi Jamaat
Alma mater| Darul Uloom Deoband
Occupation| Da'i
Muslim leader
Disciple of| Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi
Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri
Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi

Influenced by

* Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi
Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri
Muhammad Kandhlawi
Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi
Husain Ahmad Madani
Abdul Qadir Raipuri
Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Influenced

* Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
Manzur Nu'mani
Ihteshamul Hasan Kandhlawi
Saeed Ahmad Khan Makki
Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi
Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi
Muhammad Abdul Wahhab
Abdul Muqeet
Izhar ul Hassan
Iftikhar-ul-Hasan Kandhlawi
Maulana Zubair ul Hassan
Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi
Tariq Jameel
Israr Ahmed

Part of a series on the

Deobandi movement
Ideology and influences

* Dars-i Nizami
* Maturidi theology
* Hanafi fiqh

Founders and key figures

* Mamluk Ali Nanautawi
* Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
* Rahmatullah Kairanawi
* Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri
* Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi
* Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
* Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi
* Sayyid Muhammad Abid
* Mahmud Deobandi
* Muhammad Ali Mungeri
* Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
* Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri
* Ashraf Ali Thanwi
* Ubaidullah Sindhi
* Anwar Shah Kashmiri
* Kifayatullah Dehlawi
* Hussain Ahmed Madani
* Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi
* Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
* Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi
* Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi

Notable institutions

Darul ulooms and madrasas

* Deoband
* Mazahir Uloom
* Nadwatul Ulama
* Aminia
* Shahi
* Dabhel
* Hathazari
* Ashrafia
* Karachi
* Banuri Town
* Bury
* In'aamiyyah
* List of Deobandi universities

Centres (markaz) of Tablighi Jamaat

* Bhopal
* Dewsbury
* Dhaka
* Nerul
* Nizamuddin
* Raiwind

Associated organizations

* All India Muslim
Personal Law Board
* Bangladesh Qawmi Madrasa
Education Commission
* Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
* Islamic Fiqh Academy, India
* Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
* Tablighi Jamaat

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Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925, in Mewat province.[1][2]

## Early life and education[edit]

Muhammad Ilyas 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.[3][4]

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 Ilyas was 20. In 1908, Muhammad Ilyas enrolled in Darul Uloom Deoband. He also studied under Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.[5]

## Foundation of Tablighi Jamaat[edit]

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.[citation needed] 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.[6] The Tablighi Jamaat has since gone on to become one of the most widespread grassroots Islamic movements in the world with a presence in many countries, including Canada, South Africa and the UK.[7]

## Legacy[edit]

Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi wrote a biography named Life and mission of Maulana Mohammad Ilyas.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Deobands battle for survival". Dawn. Pakistan. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
2. ^ Alper, Ömer Mahi̇r (1988–2016). "KANDEHLEVÎ, Muhammed İlyas". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies.
3. ^ Sayyid Abul-Ḥasan ‘Alī Nadwī (n.d.) [First published c. 1947]. حضرت مولانا محمد الیاس اور ان کی دینی دعوت / Ḥaẓrat Maulānā Muḥammad Ilyās aur un kī dīnī da'wat (in Urdu). Rā’ewind [Raiwind]: Maktabah Maḥmūdīyah.
4. ^ "Maulana Ilyas Kandhlavi". Great Personalities in Islam. Adam Publishers & Distributors. 2004. ISBN 9788174351227. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
5. ^ Jaleel, Talib (11 July 2015). Notes On Entering Deen Completely: Islam as its followers know it. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
6. ^ "Tablighi Jamaat traces its origins to the Mewat region". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
7. ^ Timol, Riyaz (14 October 2019). "Structures of Organisation and Loci of Authority in a Glocal Islamic Movement: The Tablighi Jama'at in Britain". Religions. 10 (10): 573. doi:10.3390/rel10100573.

## Further reading[edit]

* Nadwi, Abul Hasan Ali Hasani (2001). Shafi, Muhammad (ed.). Urdu Daira Maarif Islamiya (PDF) (in Urdu). Vol. 19\. Lahore, Pakistan: University of the Punjab. pp. 373–375.
* Nadwi, Abu'l-Hasan `Ali. Life and Mission of Maulana Muhammad Ilyas.
* "Profile of Maulana Mohammad Ilyas Kandhlawi". Madrasa Islamia Arabia Khadimul-Uloom Baghonwali and Bajheri. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
* Yoginder Sikand (17 April 2010). "The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat -- Part 2". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 3 May 2017.

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Tablighi Jamaat

People|

* Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi (founder)
* Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi
* Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi
* Yusuf Kandhlawi
* Muhammad Abdul Wahhab
* Zubair ul Hassan Kandhlawi
* Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi
* Maulana Nazar-ur-Rehman
* Tariq Jamil
* Junaid Jamshed
* Ahmad Laat

Mosques|

* Nizamuddin Markaz Mosque
* Jama Masjid, Nerul
* Raiwind Markaz
* Kakrail Mosque
* Markazi Masjid, Dewsbury

Events|

* Bishwa Ijtema
* Bhopal Tablighi Ijtema
* Raiwind Ijtema
* 2020 Tablighi Jamaat coronavirus hotspot in Delhi
* 2020 Tablighi Jamaat COVID-19 hotspot in Malaysia
* 2020 Tablighi Jamaat COVID-19 hotspot in Pakistan

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Islam in South Asia

Ideology|

* Ahl-i Hadith
* Barelvi
* Deobandi
* Islamism
* Pan-Islamism
* Wahhabism

Organisations|

| Afghanistan|

* Taliban
* Durrani Empire

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Bangladesh|

* Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
* Islami Chhatrashibir
* Islamic Democratic League
* Hefazat-e-Islam
* Islami Andolan Bangladesh
* Khelafat Majlish
* Islami Jatiya Oikya Front
* Islami Oikya Jote
* Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan
* Bangladesh Islami Front
* Islami Chhatra Sena
* Islamic Front Bangladesh

India|

*     * Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, Azamgarh
* Markazu Saquafathi Sunniyya
* Jama'at Raza-e-Mustafa, Bareilly
* Sunni Students' Federation South India
* Raza Academy
* Samastha
* Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (1926–1989)
* Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (1989–present)
* All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board
* Darul Uloom Deoband
* Ahl-e-Hadith
* Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
* Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
* National Development Front
* Popular Front of India
* Students Islamic Movement of India
* Students Islamic Organisation of India

Pakistan|

* Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat
* Tanzeem ul Madaris
* Dawat e Islami International
* Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan
* Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Pakistan
* Sunni Tehreek
* Tanzeem-ul-Madaris Ahle Sunnat, Pakistan
* Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba
* Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
* Jamiat Ahle Hadith
* Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
* Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan
* Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
* Tanzeem-e-Islami
* Tehrik-e-Jafaria
* All Pakistan Ulema Council
* Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat

Others|

* All India Sunni Conference
* Shaheed Ganj Mosque Movement
* Finality of Prophethood movement
* Dawat e Islami International
* All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board
* Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan
* Ahlehadeeth Movement Bangladesh
* Hizb ut-Tahrir
* Jamaat-e-Islami
* Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir
* Jamaat ul-Fuqra
* Khaksars
* All India Khilafat Committee
* Muslim National Guard
* Tablighi Jamaat

Leaders|

* Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
* Abdul Wahid Bengali
* Habibullah Qurayshi
* Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi
* Peer Jamaat Ali Shah
* Abdullahil Baqi
* Hamid Raza Khan
* Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri
* Maulana Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni
* Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (Justice)
* Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi
* Ahmad Saeed Kazmi
* Majduddin
* Amjad Ali Aazmi
* Maulana Sardar Ahmad
* Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar
* Asjad Raza Khan
* Ibrahim Chatuli
* Saeed Noori
* Ahmad Sirhindi
* Shah Turab ul Haq
* Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari
* Khwaja Qamar ul Din Sialvi
* Shah Ahmad Noorani
* Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi
* Shihabuddeen Ahmed Koya Shaliyathi
* Arshadul Qaudri
* Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi
* Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi
* Sahibzada Haji Muhammad Fazal Karim
* Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
* Qazi Syed Rafi Mohammad
* Syed Hayatullah
* Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi
* Mian Tufail Mohammad
* Ashraf Ali Thanwi
* Anwar Shah Kashmiri
* Mahmud al-Hasan
* Ubaidullah Sindhi
* Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi
* Mohammad Ali Jouhar
* Shaukat Ali
* Muhammad Iqbal
* Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
* Abul A'la Maududi
* Shah Ahmad Noorani
* Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
* Fazl-ur-Rehman
* Ghulam Azam
* Ilyas Qadri
* Motiur Rahman Nizami
* Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi
* Grand Ayatollah Bashir Hussain Najafi
* Muhammad Taqi Usmani
* Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib
* Safdar Nagori
* Jalaluddin Umri
* Israr Ahmed
* Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
* Qazi Hussain Ahmad
* Arif Hussain Hussaini
* Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
* Syed Nazeer Husain
* Khalid Mehmood Soomro
* Siddiq Hasan Khan
* Ehsan Elahi Zaheer
* Sanaullah Amritsari
* Abul Kalam Azad
* Azizul Haque
* Fazlul Haque Amini
* Nurul Islam Farooqi
* Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir
* Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria
* Sheikh Ahmadullah
* Maulana Sardar Ahmad
* Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar
* Asjad Raza Khan
* Saeed Noori
* Sultan Zauq Nadvi

* Events

* Direct Action Day
* Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization
* Hudood Ordinances
* Shah Bano case
* Pakistani Islamisation programme referendum, 1984
* Babri Masjid
* Noakhali riots

* Part of Islamism
* Militant Islamism in South Asia

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National|

* Germany
* Israel
* United States
* Netherlands

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