THE DEVIATION OF THE TABLIGH JAMAAT AND THE ERROR OF THE MUFTIS
By MAULANA OSMAN SULAIMAN (MAURITIUS)
Your kitaab, Sabeelul Munkaraat Fee Jamaa’aatit Takash-shufaat, has been received. Jazaakumullahu khair.
May Allah Ta’ala grant your barkat in your Ilm and Amal.
There is a critical need to purge the fitnah and fasad (mischief and corruption) which has set into the arteries of the ulama of Deoband academically and practically in these times.
Today the fault underlying the turbulence and corruption, particularly in the Tabligh Jamaat, lies at the doorsteps of those Darul Iftas which have issued fatwas of permissibility and scope through unwarranted misinterpretations. People ask about the customary Tabligh Jamaat methods and the answers given pertain to Tabligh per se. Thawaab in the billions is allocated to this customary style of Tabligh. This work of theirs is counted as Jihaad and the Shar’i Jihaad’s thawaab is allocated to them. This is wanton Tahreef (distortion of the Shariah).
Who has come to them in a ‘dream’ and granted them this ‘blessing’!? Mind you, most decisions are made on the authority of dreams. The consequence of this is that we see them today waging Jihaad against themselves for the booty.
Just look at Fataawa Mahmoodiyyah. A person asks about Maulana Iyaas sahib being an Ilhaami Nabi. The manner of the response leaves much to be desired. This is the same problem with the current Urdu Fatwas. Mostly they quote Fataawa Mahmoodiyyah. They don’t look at the prevailing circumstances. The perception of the public has changed.
From the roots till the present day the jaahil ordinary workers are used as scapegoats. Don’t they (these muftis) see that the lay-jamaati has received these things from those in authority? Hence the whole world’s field jamaati workers are embroiled in the same error. This proves that the rusted metal is coming from the same mine. For this reason we find the same fault in all the Jamaat ranks.
The ulama again have retreated to a fortress of silence instead of openly expressing to them the Hukm of the Shariah. They have latched on to the diplomacy of ‘benefit’. Don’t the ulama understand that as long as a benefit is within the confines of the Shariah it is acceptable; otherwise such ‘benefit’ is useless.
For the sake of a few corrections in practical deeds, corruption in Aqaaid is condoned. This mubaah (permissible) venture (that is the methodology of the Tabligh Jamaat) is inflated to the level of fardh and waajib. It is treated like a fardh or waajib act. This renders it a bid’at.
The means has been taken as the objective. It is for this reason that the Fadhaail (Virtues) of Jihaad are fraudulently usurped and exploited for this work. But the ulama are dumb silent. This is because we have in our institutions a fifth column; the liberal-minded mufti. Answers to questions are given liberally; irrespective of it being in conflict with one’s Math-hab. Fatwas of jawaaz are painstakingly dug up and painted with the colours of umoom balwa and haajat.
(End of the Maulana’s critique)
Undoubtedly, the Tabligh Jamaat has fallen into Imaani chaos and is set on the path of deviation. Whilst there are two mutually hostile factions with daggers at each other’s throats, both sects of the Tabligh Jamaat are set on the very same path of deviation and bid’ah.
It is correct, as the Maulana avers, that the rot of bid’ah stems from the very top rung of the Jamaat. In their effort to baselessly and cunningly vindicate the Jamaat, their elders resort to the Shiah gimmick of Taqiyah whereby they seek to assuage the sincere critics. They say that the errors and acts of bid’ah and deviation are the commission of the ignorant recruits. This claim is palpably false and devious.
The jaahil recruits at the bottom are merely echoing what is dinned into their ears by their elders. The elders are guilty of the bid’ah and deviation. We have warned the Jamaat, many a time, that the time will come to outlaw the Jamaat and to proclaim it as a Firqah Baatil – a false and deviated sect within the scope of the 72 deviate sects predicted by Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam). If the elders do not rectify and root out the poisonous weeds within the fabric of their Jamaat, the excommunication of the Tabligh Jamaat will become a stark inevitable reality.
The elders of the Tabligh Jamaat in our context no longer refer to the deviates in Raiwand and Nizaamuddin. It refers to those who are in charge of the Tabligh Jamaat in the different countries regardless of whatever faction. These elders in the various countries, should forget about Raiwand and Nizaamduddin. They should focus on saving the Jamaat from total destruction. Those at the helm in Raiwand and Nizaamuddin are fat cats Their objective is the dunya, not the Deen.
These Fat Cats squander satanically millions of dollars on a regular basis organizing merrymaking ijtima functions to eat and excrete whilst millions of Muslims are languishing in abject suffering, misery and jahaalat all over the world. Many Muslims who are not even associated with the Tabligh Jamaat undertake costly journeys to attend the ijtimas in Raiwand and Nizamuddin, not for genuine Deeni objectives, but for nafsaani gratification. They merely plunge into self-deception by providing a semblance of ‘deeni’ cover for their merrymaking holidays
They must wake up before it is too late!
25 Jamaadil Ula 1445 – 9 December 2023