4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN

4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN ~ 101 ~ to propagate the message of Islam. On entering the Prophet’s mosque, one felt as if one had reached an oasis after being exposed to extremes of climate. The Prophet’s mosque of that time was not a grand building with every comfort. On the contrary, what was special about it was the pure Islamic environment which attracted people from far and near. There one could see real concern among the people to propagate the message of God, there one could see in the lives of the people the Quran being practised in the real sense of the word. Whoever attended the gatherings of the Prophet’s mosque could not help being impressed. Bangla Wali Mosque has been successful in creating just such an environment for more than a quarter of a century. It is a revival of one aspect of the Prophet’s Sunnah, the like of which is hard to find in the recent past. In this world, there is no dearth of offices set up in the name of Islam. But an Islamic Centre on the pattern of Masjid-e-Nabavi is very rare. This fact in itself makes it worthy of the promised divine succour. It is related that Syed Ataullah Shah Bukhari, the great religious scholar, once visited this place, was so impressed by the