Browsing through transcripts of a number of Friday sermons from Saudi Arabia on #TablighiJamaat and I’m shocked at the factually incorrect claims. I expected better. This isn’t 1920s, there’s no excuse for misinformation.
It’d help outsiders know the centre of #TablighiJamaat activities in that region of the Gulf is Qatar… and we all know how neighbouring countries feel about that country. This is what explained to me the charge of synthesis with Brotherhood & it being a “gateway to terrorism”.
As a student I had the privilege of having dinners with my teacher in his room, during which a student would read a book aloud, making sure no time was wasted. One of the books we read was titled, al-Qawl al-Baligh Fi Radd Jama’at al-Tabligh, or thereabouts.
So fanciful were its claims, I think no one in the room would disagree, esp judging by the laughter and witty comments that would follow, the book belonged less to heresiography and polemics, and more to satire, comedy and humour.
But beneath all the laughter, were some sinister realities: a) fallacious arguments (some of which have resurfaced in transcripts and current narrative) and b) misinformation, which author’s guide in India who belonged to a sect critical of Tabligh and Deoband is responsible for.
By all means express disagreement, even criticism, but only after you’ve understood a person’s opinion and position properly. Otherwise, you risk criticising someone for positions they don’t hold, nor profess in the first place.
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