“Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) literally the Outreach Society or the Society for Spreading Faith, is a non-political Islamic outfit that focuses on urging Muslims to return to practising their religion during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and particularly in matters of ritual, dress, and personal behavior.”

(Mentioned by one their followers)

Corona Virus or Covid-19 can not be more massive than the World War III, where the Humanity faces annihilation. Humanity observes religion and differ between each other, but viruses don’t differ. They affect us all in the same way. India under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken some very stringent and pertinent steps in bringing halt to the spread of this deadly virus and protect Indian’s as a whole.

The Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), was established in the district of Mewat, Haryana, India, no more than 100 kms from the National Capital in the year 1927 and stems from the Deobandi of the Hanafi Sunni school of jurisprudence. Deobandi is the most commonly practiced form of Islam in South Asia, and TJ is but a small subset of the larger Deobandi community. TJ was designed to be an apolitical, pietistic organization that sends missionaries across the globe on proselytizing missions intended to bring or convert wayward Sufi and Barelvi Muslims back to more orthodox practices of Islam or to their organization. Approximately 2000 foreigners on tourist visa from over 70 countries are spread over India to propagate Tablighi missionary work.

It is evident that such religious gatherings have already spread the pandemic among thousands in the country. At face value, TJ is a peaceful, egalitarian and devotional movement that stresses individual faith and overall spiritual development. In a sense, TJ is a widespread training system that urges an average Muslim to examine their own lives and become involved in calling their fellow Muslims back to orthodox Islam. TJ promotes a benign message, the same conservative Islamic values espoused by the Tablighi’s also are part of jihadist ideology, and so some Muslims attracted to the Tablighi movement are enticed into becoming involved with jihadists.

But in the came of TJ where it is propagating widely that it is protecting its own members against COVID-19, but the real truth is that they are all hiding in the Nizamudin office of TJ.

Tablighi Jamaat center of Aceh in Cot Goh, Mon Tasiek, Aceh Besar Regency

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The organisation has its nerve-centre in Nizamuddin in New Delhi, where more than 1500 TJ workers are forced to stay inside their office. During a raid by the Delhi Police sleuths it was discovered the inhuman living conditions and no respect for the social distancing rules put in place. More than 1500 TJ workers currently stationed at its headquarters in Nizamuddin, New Delhi are suspected to be infected of COVID-19.

2009 Malaysian Annual Congregation of Tablighi Jamaat Sepang Selangor, Malaysia

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As many as 50 were sent for testing, as foreign teams of TJ who were on tour to Tamil Nadu & Hyderabad and staying are now staying at Tabligh Jamaat Headquarters have already tested positive with COVID-19. It just seems to be a landmine waiting to explode in the heart of New Delhi.

A group of TJ followers, consisting largely of Malaysian and Indonesian nationals, had travelled to India after attending a congregation of Islamic preachers in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia between 27th February and 22nd March, 2020. After testing some of the followers it came to light that several of those who attended the congregation were tested positive of Covid-19. Every year approx. 40,000 to 50,000 of foreigners of Tablighi Jamaat visitors spend a minimum of 40 to 180 days on preach missions and promote missionary activities are actually visa violators.

Khawaja Hamid Hussain (75), resident of Hyderabad had recently visited Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah (Masjid) and was admitted in Global Hospital on 24th March with complaints of Cold and Cough, which was later confirmed as infected with coronavirus or COVID-19. On 27th March he died to the complications developed by the deadly virus.

Several leaders of TJ namely Moulana Ibrahim Dewla(Mumbai), Moulana Ahmed Laat (Mumbai), Moulana Farooq( Bangalore), Moulana Sanaullah(Aligah), Professor Abdul Rahman(Chennai) had attended the Ijtema in Indonesia and returned to India on March 22 are suspected carriers of COVID-19. The preachers, all part of Muslim group Tabligh Jamaat, were approached and refused to take the tests for Covid-19.

It is imperative that each member of Tablighi Jamaat is thoroughly screened in context of COVID-19 before it’s too late.

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