As salaamu wa alaykum,
Desis would know what Paan and paan masala is, usually made with betel leaf and mixed with tobacco and areca nut [supari] it acts as a stimulant usually had after food, and all of that is made in a jiffy, experienced hands would often not take more than a minute to make it, chewed and run its course, its spitted in dustbins, but mostly corners of walls, relegated to the ground and trampled upon by the people who treat it worse than trash and are afraid of its stains on their clothes when just a few minutes back that same mix transported them to a different heaven from the rigours of this life.
Tabligh, my dear brothers and sisters, has today become the paan masala of the Ulamah's and the awaam and the reasons why I have taken that as an example.
I wanted to write this since a few weeks but I haven't much time to write in a manner I originally wanted, so let me tell some of the things anyways...as to what really is happening.
1. The Ulamah's refusal to give the work of tabligh the seriousness it deserves.
If anyone has read Mufti Kawthari's advice to tablighi jama't -Here: http://www.daruliftaa.com/tablighjamaat and as pointed out by bro Muadh here: http://www.muftisays.com/blog/Muadh_Khan/3286_20-03-2013/tableeghi-jamaat-amp-tableeghees-victimisation-and-double-standards-.html
- they would know that only part of it was advice but much of it was rant and more than that, plain mockery of the work, how then should one look at his writings where he questions Did Imam Abu Hanifa went for 3 days and 40 days and that tabligh can have a different tarteeb? And Mufti saheb is actually encouraging people to leave even if they aren't connected with the local markaz.
Before going further, let me say, these are the same people including that on sunniforum.com who say Islah can't happen without a Shaikh of Tasawwuf, and their refusal to admit that millions have had their islah done through tabligh.
Can I ask them Ulamah included, and this is my main point, there are experts in every field, but why aren't the experts in tabligh recognized, if one wants to learn about tasawwuf, one goes to a Shaikh, one needs a fatwa, one goes to a mufti - the reasons being these are people who have spent years studying the part and have gained some sort of experience in that respective field.
Yet we find when it comes to tabligh, the people who have spent years in the effort are not consulted when it comes to matters regarding...tabligh.
Tabligh and the tablighi jama't is being treated as paan masala.
a. When you say Imam Abu Hanifa didn't go out for 3 days and 40 days - was Imam Abu Hanifa bayt to a Shaikh of Tasawwuf? And if he didn't - are you saying his islah didnt happen?
b. If you say Islah can't happen without a Shaikh of Tasawwuf, why is it wrong to say tabligh can't happen without the tarteeb of Nizamuddin?
c. Why is it implied and constantly drilled into the minds of people, mostly simple tablighis, that they have to go take bayt upon a Shaikh of Tasawwuf to get their islah done, or otherwise they are missing out on something, why is it not said to the same Shaikh or even his mureeds that they are mssing out on something if they don't do tabligh? Why call this fanaticism? Isn't going door to door a sunnah of the Final Prophet [peace be upon him) ?
