4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN

4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN ~ 106 ~ only asset. No movement of modern times shows the capacity to continue to influence people on an intellectual plane. Although such movements seem to prosper even in the second phase so far as membership numbers are concerned, this success is not of the same nature as the original one. It almost assumes the form of a business, and the goal is relegated to the background. The Tabligh movement enjoys a special advantage over other movements in that its appeal is enduring even today, and it has considerably expanded its horizons. People take part in its programmes with increasing interest and the numbers of new people coming to its fold are ever-increasing. The change in the lives of such people is pronounced, and the propagation of the message is on the increase. Usually movements and parties are a product of their own time and circumstances. Although they claim to have derived their goal from eternal truths and use similar terms to express their aims and objectives, they are set in the present – a reaction to the circumstances. But the Tabligh work far from being something of momentary significance is