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| 30 million | |
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| Ilyas Qadri[1] | |
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| www |
Dawat-e-Islami (Urdu:دعوتِ اسلامی) is an organization based inPakistan. It has several Islamic educational institutions around the world.
In addition to local charity efforts, Dawat-e-Islami offers online courses in Islamic studies and runs atelevision station,Madani Channel.[2] Dawat-e-Islami was officially founded in Karachi in September 1981 by leading scholars who selectedIlyas as its main leader.[3][4]
Arshadul Qaudri and Islamic scholarShah Ahmad Noorani, since 1973 head of theJamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), along with other Pakistani Sunni scholars, selectedIlyas Qadri, who was the then Punjab president ofAnjuman Talaba-e-Islam, JUP's youth wing, aged 23, as the head of Dawat-e-Islami at Dār-ul ´Ulūm Amjadia.[5][6] Dawat-e-Islami was established initially to dilute the influence of manyWahhabi group and its teachings.[7] On 2 September 1981, Dawat-e-Islami came into being.[8]
Dawat-e-Islami has spread into an excess of 194 nations of the globe through 26000+ workers, various volunteers and evangelists who are engendering the message of Islam in their area.[9] The two most significant activities of Dawat-e-Islami are Madani Qafila (missionary travel) and Naik Amal (self assessment questionnaires). Followers travel for specific days to spread the message of Islam to the people. Dawat-e-Islami owns its own TV Channel known as Madani Channel. It also arranges an annual gathering of Muslim inMultan.[10]
In October 2002, a major Pakistani English-language newspaper reported about a 3-day public gathering in the city ofMultan, Pakistan which was held by Dawat-e-Islami organization and was attended by thousands of people from all parts of Pakistan and other countries.Pakistan Railways had used special trains fromKarachi,Hyderabad andNawabshah to take passengers to Multan.Ilyas Qadri spoke at the first and last sessions of the gathering.[10]
In addition to mosques, Dawat-e-Islami has also startedDar-ul-Madinah, an Islamic school system that aims to improve conventional academic studies in conformity withSharia.[11]
Dawat-e-Islami expanded to the United Kingdom in 1995, holding its first Ijtima (weekly congregation) inHalifax.[citation needed] As of December 2019, it now has at least 38 properties in the United Kingdom which are used as a network ofMasajid, Islamic centers, schools and/orJamias in order to create future scholars for society.[citation needed] Some buildings have been completed and others are being worked upon. More than 100,000British Muslims are in some form or the other associated with Dawat-e-Islami inUK.[12][13][14] In 2009, amadrassa was opened inRotherham,England, for the education of young children and adults.
Dawat-e-Islami operates twelve centers inGreece and seven inSpain.[15] InAthens, it has association with localSufis and has established four centers.[16]
Dawat-e-Islami organized an annual congregation inMultan, Pakistan until 2008, when it was discontinued for security reasons, and inBirmingham.[4] In 2002, around 500,000 people participated in its congregation inMultan, Pakistan.[10]
Dawat-e-Islami planned to hold an annual congregation (Ijtema) in December 1991 inMumbai (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 asSunni Dawate Islami.[4]
In Madrasa tul Madina, children are taught how to read theQur’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]
Since 2009, Dawat-e-Islami is operating its Madani Channel, which had been launched with Urdu[18] broadcasts but afterwards three more channels in English,[19] Arabic and Bengali[20] were launched. Madni Channel is free of commercial advertisements and it runs on charity and broadcasts programs to spread the true teachings of Islam and to reform the society through spiritual and moral guidance.[21][22][23]
During theCOVID-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 inKarachi.[24] The organisation had also set up blood donation centres in 13 places in Karachi.[24] It collected 18,000 bottles from 106 campuses across the country.[25]
Dawat-e-Islami started campaign for planting trees across Pakistan which aims to pollution free country.[26] Governor Sindh Imran Ismail inaugurated monsoon tree plantation drive at Governor's House as a part of the Clean Green Pakistan Initiative in collaboration with Dawat-e-Islami Pakistan in August 2021.[27][28] Green Pakistan plantation campaign covers all major cities of Pakistan and costs millions of Pakistani rupees.[29]
Faizan Global Relief Foundation (FGRF), a welfare division of Dawat-e-Islami, a non-profit organization, is building a shelter home for homeless children under its project ‘Madani Home’.[30]
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