Dawat-e-Islami
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Dawat-e-Islami (Urdu: دعوت اسلامی) is a non-political, non-governmental, international Islamic organization.
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[edit] Origin
Dawat-e-Islami was founded in 1980 in Karachi, Pakistan, by Ilyas Attar Qadri[1]. This movement has now spread all over the world. It is active in a more than 60 countries.[citation needed]
[edit] Activities
Dawat-e-Islami is involved in various religious activities to promote Islam. The main objective is to guide people to practice the teachings of the Qur’an and the Sunnah:
According to Ashok K. Behuria in Many Pakistans within Pakistan: The Case of Sectarian Conflicts in a Talibanised Context.
Dawat-e-Islami is more of a mystic order than a political organisation that revolves around the personality of its founder. It has no motive other than to cleanse the spirits of its cadres and propagate its belief system. Its cadres do not overtly indulge in political or sectarian issues and its peaceful style of preaching on the pattern of a mystic order has won it a large number of followers. ...the Dawat chief wants his followers to be a model of the traditions of the Prophet, as interpreted and personified by Qadri himself. Dawat probably has the broadest popular base of all other Ahle Sunnat organisations. The lower and lower-middle classes form the bulk of its cadres. The number of madrassa-educated cadres, however, is rapidly increasingly. Dawat is said to run nearly 200 madrassas only in Karachi.[2]
[edit] Annual Congregations
- The annual international congregation of Dawat-e-Islami is held every October in Multan, Pakistan where hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all over the World attend.[3]
- The Dawat-e-Islami held the first-ever congregation for deaf, dumb and blind students at its central headquarters Faizan-e-Madina. Hundreds of students between 16 and 18 years of age attended the programme.They were given a revision session on how to pray, and character building.[4]
[edit] Charity Collections
Dawat-e-Islami collects Zakat and fitra in the month of Ramadan for its missionary activities. In 2006 the organization surpassed the Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation of MQM in fundraising.[5]
[edit] In Europe
The Dawat-e-Islami has been in Existence in the United Kingdom for more than 15 Years.The European Headquarters is the faizan-e-Medina in the Bradford ,Where they Currently establishes its Own Seminary.Other Centres of the same name Can be found in the accrington and Birmingham.In Continental Europe the Dawat-e-Islami Currently Operates Five Centres in Greece and three in Spain.The Faizan-e-Medina in Barcelona was Set up in 2007 on the Occasion of Milad Un Nabi.[6].
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[edit] Notes
- Attar Qaudri, Ilyas (1991). Dawat-e-Islami ka Maqsad. Maktaba Ahle Sunnah Karachi.
