2. HAZRATJI

2. HAZRATJI ~ 56 ~ 2. HAZRATJI Maulana Mohammed Yusuf, generally known to his followers as Hazratji, was about to board a train from Lahore to Saharanpur. Lahore had been the last stage of a long missionary tour which had taken him as far as Dhaka and to many other cities in both West and East Pakistan. He had a very heavy and demanding schedule, but following in the footsteps of his father, Maulana Ilyas, he had never once thought of sparing himself. Now he was going home. But this was not to be, for on that fateful day, the second of April 1965, he suffered a heart attack which proved fatal. This was a tragedy, no doubt, but it was one about which he had never allowed himself to feel apprehensive. The Tabligh movement came before all. Maulana Mohd. Yousuf was born on 2nd March 1917. After the death of his father in 1944, he persevered in the same path for 21 years till the end. In this short span of time, a movement, which had started from teaching the illiterate Mewati Muslims the Kalimah and prayer, developed into a national and then an international movement. It influenced