4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN

4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN ~ 112 ~ impart education to the assembly. Notwithstanding the major role of the press in modern times, its role in this instance is nominal. The Tabligh organizes huge gatherings every year such as no other party can manage to do, but they neither publish advertisements, handbills and posters, nor is any announcement made by loudspeaker. Hundreds and thousands of people have involved themselves in this work but no magazine is issued to bring them together, to educate them, or to give them instructions. I personally know that on one occasion when an editor of a certain newspaper published reports about a gathering that was being organized, the senior members went and met the editor to protest about it. No doubt, holding such views will appear to be verging on fanaticism, but this firm attitude has brought about a high degree of efficiency which no other movement can claim to possess. It is a fact that when someone is advocating his beliefs and ideas to others in person, his words bear the whole force of his personality. There is sweetness in his words, feeling in his style and conviction in his tone. Moreover, when this conversation takes place