The Devotion of Life — Page 295
295 endeavour is required. Who can be greater than the Holy Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him), but he too did Tabligh for several years and later his Companions (may Allah be pleased with them all) followed in Tabligh, only then did hundreds and thousands of people turn to Islam. After some years when they turned their attention away from the propagation of Islam, the very same hundreds of thousands were lost. Similarly, if our representatives and our spokespersons are present in these countries, then this task should not be limited to them, rather, if their next generation is also involved in this task then the world can benefit for hundreds of years to come with the light of Islam. The ‘Tehrik’ of life devotion is a magnificent ‘Tehrik’ for the propagation of Islam. If this ‘Tehrik’ was to gather strength and young men of our Community kept coming forward, generation after generation, for the service of the faith, then the sequence of Tabligh of Islam can continue for not just hundreds of years but for thousands of years. For this reason, I have repeatedly elucidated the significance of Waqf to the Community. However, now I plan to ask the Community on a family level to devote their children. That is, each family should offer one young man for the service of faith and pledge that they will always have one other family member for devotion and that they will never allow any slackness in this. When the family devotion ‘Tehrik’ will gather strength we will be able to