Grappling with a political controversy and aggressive Hindu revivalism, the Tablighi Jamaat has two options: either retreat further into the social realm or emerge as a political force to be reckoned with
In the most recent controversy, Tablighi Jamaat, a transnational Islamic revivalist movement, has been implicated in the sudden spike of the number of Coronavirus cases in India, owing to a large gathering of national and international jamaatis who were housed at the Nizamuddin Markaz in New Delhi in early March. The Markaz is the global headquarters of the movement, which is home to the travellers-in-faith all through the year. It is a movement that never stops - it is constantly on the move.
Until recently, the Islam projected by the Tablighis had been a lesser-known entity in the wider public domain in India with most non-Muslims oblivious of its existence. This was a result of Tabligh’s conscious ‘apolitical’ bearing and strict confinement to the Muslim social sphere. The confinement to the social is seen as a complete revocation of the political, as the Tabligh does not aspire for state power. The abdication of the political is Tabligh’s core belief.
In fact, the state machinery has been employed in brutalising the Muslim subject. This brutalisation is part of the Hindutva project – of remaking India into a Hindu Rashtra. The Hindu right has been emboldened since the victory of the Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 and then again with a thumping majority in 2019.
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