2. HAZRATJI

2. HAZRATJI ~ 57 ~ people from all walks of life, of diverse abilities and profession. A great achievement indeed, and quite unprecedented. A contemporary of his, and a well-known scholar, Maulana Mohd. Manzoor Nomani, has narrated how a Tabligh gathering was held in Moradabad only a few months after the death of Maulana Mohd. Ilyas. At that time, the idea of sparing time for Tabligh had not become a common practice in areas other than Mewat. Maulana Mohd. Yousuf delivered a speech after the morning prayer. When it was over, some of the members began to exhort the people to register their names as participants in the outdoor religious activities of the movement. But only a few people came forward. For the dispatching of missionary parties to Bijnore, Chandpur and Rampur, not even a group of ten people could be formed. On learning of their apathy, Maulana Yousuf, who had gone inside the mosque after his speech, came back out, picked up the microphone and began thus: “Today you are reluctant to travel to such nearby places. A time will come when you will go to Syria, Egypt, Iraq, but by then your rewards will have diminished, because