THE SINCERE DEVOTION

~ 26 ~ Once someone came to see the Maulana after attending the congregation. The Maulana asked him, “Didn’t you feel sorry for the pathetic abyss we have fallen into?” He replied “Since I have witnessed for myself the ignorance of our community, I’m ashamed of our very existence.” It was as a result of such dedication to the cause that in the first major congregation in Mewat in November 1941, about 25,000 people attended it. A large number of them came walking all the way from as far as fifty miles. Their pitiful lack of education can be judged from the response the Maulana received when he urged one of the Mewatis to work for Tabligh. “Tablid? What is Tablid?” rejoined the Mewati, unable even to pronounce the word. Yet these very people, ignorant of even the term, had been converted as if by magic, into great missionaries, the like of whom the country had never known. Motivated by an overpowering urge to salvation in the next life; a longing that God should forgive them when they came before Him, they set out to conquer the hearts of the people. When Islam