Arab Tablighis

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Re: Arab Tablighis

@Ali_Syed

As far as how I see this issue is that Islam spread through the subcontinent and Central Asia through Sufi’s. Its natural that most people revered the people who had converted them but there was no formal name of the group. Abdul Wahhab was born in 1700 and started preaching to get rid Islam from contamination. Shah Waliullah was born in the same period (1703-1762). Based upon his teachings Deobandi school was formed in 1867. I feel there these two movements have a bearing on the other. The people of Pakistan as how I can see originally subscribed to what we call Barelvism now. I feel Deobandism is a reaction against some practices which Barelvis followed. I also feel that add a tinge of Wahhabism to Barelvism and you get Deobandism. Barelvis have been the biggest group of people in the country but now seem to be losing out which they themselves need to address. Sufi’s had preached equality to the people but their followers have again become elites themselves which is one reason.

Nearly all Barelvi books are polemical - showing how either Wahabis or Deobandis are wrong so I think it is not right to conclude that Deobandis are the reactionary group … however, I do agree that Barelvi beliefs were there before Deobandi forms and that is the reason for the Barelvi polemics … When religion becomes political then we get problems - because then it become a game of getting adherents and not about getting to the truth and submitting to it.