They sport long beards and loose gowns – Is that all Malaysians know about members of tabligh... apart from the coronavirus, of course? FMTNews Covid19
Indonesian members of tabligh arrive at a Surabaya port to attend an international gathering in Magetan in East Java, in 2004.
The Sri Petaling mosque, built entirely with donations as well as the engineering expertise of members, is the tabligh group’s main base in the country where weekly and monthly religious discourses are held. It brings together observations and studies by several social scientists about the tabligh phenomenon as a transnational movement.
As in the subcontinent, so elsewhere: tabligh discussion-groups and meetings are followed with equal vigour in other parts of the world, growing in silence despite the “unglamorous” image it possesses compared to other Islamic groups. This dimension of life, according to them, is the easiest to control. This view has attracted the accusation that they are “pseudo-sufi” escapists who seek God for inner peace.
Unlike other movements, they target Muslims; they rarely preach to non-Muslims. The atmosphere in a tabligh meeting is reasonably egalitarian; members organise themselves into small missions , and normally learn from and encourage each other. They quietly pay visits to Muslim homes near mosques, inviting them to join their gatherings.
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