Result of mere lip service to Al Qur'an.

[Ismail]

Salaam.

Visit Mewath District of India, the flagship of World Thableegi Jama’ath. It is a district dominated by the Muslim community called Meo. It is where the best of Thableegi  Jama’ath is concentrated since the Jama’ath’s very inception. And this, not in the least due to the special attention paid to the area by Moulavi Ilyas, the Jama’at’a originator. The world of Thableegi Jama’ath still recognizes the district’s centrality, and unique importance within the organization.

Yet, even after more than half a century of the Jama'ath's most fervent, concerted, relentless missionary endeavors, the fate of the district, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mewat_District  is:

[Mewat has remained a region of backwardness even after independence. The area lags behind the rest of Haryana State on almost every yardstick of development indices, even though the farthest point of Mewat is no farther than 145 km. from the National Capital of India.] The district’s nearest point is only 20 kilometers from New Delhi Airport.

And if you want to have glimse of what impact the Jama’ath has made on the Muslims regarding paying attention to Al Qur’an, please see the following report:

According to http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-new-chapter-for-mewat/596465/7

Balwant Saini, a Hindu from Karhera village in Mewat, established Saini Vidya Niketan, a class I-VII school, in April 2009, after working as an administrator in a school in Faridabad. "To draw more students, I included Urdu and Islamic studies in my school," he says. He got "over 800 applications". Today, at his eight-room school, most of the 400 students study in the open. Urdu here is compulsory from class III to VI—his own daughter is fluent in the language. Saini says he had asked parents if they wanted Quranic translation to be taught at the school but "not even 10 agreed". "They said they read the Quran at home anyway," he says.

No doubt, denying primary attention to Al Qur’an, ultimately leads to ignominy, and destruction.

Regards,
A. Ismail Sait.

[Sardar Miyan]

Salam Why not the Tableeghi Jamaat do this instead of depending on Hindus? Providing  basic Quranic education is the responsibilty of Muslims & Tableeghi Jamaat.

[Ismail]

Salaam.

You said: "Providing  basic Quranic education is the responsibility of Muslims & Tableeghi Jamaat."

When the the Thableegi Jama'ath - today's most popular and most widespread religious organization in the world - blatantly refuses to give primacy to Al Qur'an in their mission, and when the Ulema give primary importance to other sources, who is going to take the responsibility of at least reading out a mere translation of the Book, to school children in the class room, if not those who think (like that school manager) that Muslims believe in the primacy of Al Qur'an, ? After all, he who reads it to others, will be the first to ponder over it.

You see, the parents could not even give the school manager a good chance to ponder over Al Qur'an.

Yes, and not without reason. The more a so called non Muslim reads and ponders over Al Qur'an, the more he will perceive how much far removed from Al Qur'an today's Muslims are.

This attitude of today's Muslims is akin to the attitude of the people of the Book, who used to warn one another against revealing the truth in the Torah to the Sahaba of Prophet Muhammed, lest the Sahaba get a fair evidence against the Jews' refusal to accept the truth in both precept and practice. (See 2:76)

We know only to retort at such a kind and great gesture proudly saying, "our children read the Qur'an at home anyway". But the whole world knows that we read, if at all we do, without pondering over it's meaning. We will suffer in both the worlds for repulsing a great gesture.

I think, in today's world, there is not much in a name, for us to be prejudiced against.

Regards,
A. Ismail Sait.

 

 

[Sardar Miyan]

Thanks for revealing Tablighi Jammat's role as they do not give importance to  Quranic education. They don't quote Quran in daily life except Fazail Amal & Tablighi Nisab. It is unfortunate that they doing this.