Dawat-e-Islami

Dawat-e-Islami is an Islamic organization based in Pakistan. It has several Islamic educational institutions around the World. In addition to local charity efforts, Dawat-e-Islami also offers online courses in Islamic studies and runs a television station, Madani Channel.[2] It is associated with global Barelvi Islam movement. Dawat-e-Islami was officially founded in Karachi in September 1981 by leading scholars who selected Ilyas Qadri as its main leader.[3][4]

Dawat-e-Islami
دعوت اسلامی
Founder
Ilyas Qadri[1]
Religions
Islam
Scriptures
Quran, Hadith, Sunnat
Languages
Liturgical: Arabic
In Bangladesh: Bengali
In India & Pakistan:Urdu
In the diaspora: In UK: Respective regional languages
Website
Dawateislami.net

History
Faizan-e-Madinah in Karachi

Arshadul Qaudri and Islamic scholar Shah Ahmad Noorani, since 1973 head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), along with other Pakistani Sunni scholars selected Ilyas Qadri, who was the then Punjab president of Anjuman Tulaba-ye Islām, JUP´s youth wing, aged 23, as the head of Dawat-e-Islami at Dār-ul ´ulūm Amjadia.[5] [6] D.I was established initially to dilute the influence of Tablighi Jamaat.[7]

In addition to mosques, Dawat-e-Islami has also started Dar-ul-Madinah, an Islamic school system that aims to improve conventional academic studies in conformity with Sharia.[8]

Dawat-e-Islami has expanded to the United Kingdom, around 1995 holding its first Ijtima (weekly congregation) in Halifax. As of December 2019, it now has at least 38 properties in the United Kingdom which are used as a network of Masajid, Islamic centers, schools and/or Jamias in order to create future scholars for society. Some buildings have been completed and others are being worked upon. More than 100,000 British Muslims are in some form or the other associated with Dawat-e-Islami in UK.[9][10][11]

Dawat-e-Islami operates twelve centers in Greece and seven in Spain.[12] In 2009, a Madrassa was opened in Rotherham, England, for the education of young children and adults. In Athens, it has association with local Sufis and has established four centers.[13]

In Bangladesh, Dawat-e-Islami led Jamia-tul-Madina has produced scholars who are serving in United Kingdom.[14]

Activities

The two most significant activities of Dawat-e-Islami are Madani Qafila (missionary travel) and Madani Inamaat (self assessment questionnaires). Followers travel for specific days to spread the message of Islam to the people. Its leadership hardly interacts with the mainstream media, though the organization own its own TV Channel known as Madani Channel. It also arranges an annual gathering of its followers in Bangladesh.[15]

In October 2002, a major Pakistani English-language newspaper reported about a 3-day public gathering in the city of Multan, Pakistan which was held by Dawat-e-Isalmi organization and was attended by thousands of people from all parts of Pakistan and other counteries. Pakistan Railways had used special trains from Karachi, Hyderabad and Nawabshah to take passengers to Multan. Ilyas Qadri spoke at the first and last sessions of the gathering.[15]

Call to Righteousness

Dawat-e-Islami is organized in small units of lay preachers, who invite for weekly and annual congregations. They stress the strict and literal imitation of the life of Muhammed in all aspects of the daily routine. As missionary, the lay preacher has to act like an ideal Muslim. The "Islamic Project" of Dawat-e-Islami is the "Sunnaization", that is the re-shaping and re-construction of the daily routine and the individual markers of identity based on the examples of the Prophet and the Sahabi as portrayed in the Hadith-Literature.[4] Daway-e-Islami arranges Haftawar Ijtima (weekly gatherings on every Thursday) in cities around the world.[15]

Dawat-e-Islami held its first congregation for deaf, dumb and blind students at its central headquarters Faizan-e-Madinah. Hundreds of students between 16 and 18 years of age attended the programme.[16]

Mohammad Hafeez, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kamran Akmal with Volunteers of Dawat-e-Islami

Annual Islamic gatherings (Ijtema)

Dawat-e-Islami organized a large annual congregation in Multan, Pakistan until 2008, when it was discontinued for security reasons, and in Birmingham.[4] In 2002, around 500,000 people participated in its congregation in Multan, Pakistan.[15]

Dawat-e-Islami planned to hold an annual congregation (Ijtema) in December 1991 in Mumbai (India).[4] Ilyas Attar Qadri tried to cancel it, but local activists held it anyway.[4] A dispute about this, caused the Mumbai-based group to break away as Sunni Dawate Islami.[4]

Madarsa-tul Madina (Religious Basic Education System)

In Madrasa tul Madina, children are taught how to read the Qur’an in Arabic, as well as foundational Islamic studies. Currently, Madrasa tul Madina has around 3790 branches, with approximately 169,000 boys and girls studying free of charge in these institutions.[17]

Madani Channel

Since 2009, Dawat-e-Islami has operated its Madani Channel, which has Islamic programming.[18][19][20]

COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, Dawat-e-Islami distributed food ration bags to needy people affected by lockdown in Pakistan. On 20 April 2020, Imran Attari said that Dawat-e-Islami had distributed 250,000 ration bags across Pakistan, including 40,000 in Karachi.[21] The organisation had also set up blood donation centres in 13 places in Karachi.[21]

Criticism

While the movement officially condemns violence and has been described as "too liberal" by the Taliban, some of its followers have killed others for actions that Dawat-e-Islami followers have called "blasphemy".[22] For example, the governor of Punjab, Salmon Taseer, was murdered by one of his bodyguards, a follower of Dawat-e-Islami, who said that his influence was the Governor's support for changes to a blasphemy law. However, he later denied being influenced by Dawat-e-Islami in the murder.[23][24]

See also

References
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Notes
  • Attar Qadri, Ilyas (1991). Dawat-e-Islami ka Maqsad : Mujay Apni Aur Sari Dunya Kay Logo Ki Islah Ki Koshish Karni Hay ان شاء اللہ عزوجل. Maktaba Ahle Sunnah Karachi.
  • Gugler, Thomas K. (2011). Mission Medina: Da'wat-e Islami und Tabligi Gama'at. Würzburg: Ergon.
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