Tabligh Jama'at as an emulatable model of faith renewal

The Tabligh Jama'at (Conveying the Message of Islam Group) is part of a significant multidimensional and multifaceted global phenomenon of Islamic revivalism. It is an Islamic transnational pietist missionary and revivalist movement of faith renewal with an Indian origin. Guided by its ideology of the discovery of God through God-faithful relationship, the movement concentrates its focus on what passes for lax and nominal Muslims. Its objective is to reorder the disenchanted modern world into an ideal God-conscious cosmos through remaking Muslims, that is returning Muslims to the scripture-based practice of Islam and remake them into pious, God-loving, and shari'ah-abiding Muslims. The idea is to live in this world but not for this world and to rebuild society by engaging in a moral struggle against the existing order and through a radical rehabilitation of the individual. To save the modern world from slipping further into jahiliyyah (a state of ignorance and God-nescience), the Tabligh Jama'at has embarked on the mission to reignite the universal beacon of guidance" Islam. It claims it has the "best" tool at its disposal and that is the Tabligh quadripartite paradigm of khuruj" an archetype for Islamic faith renewal. The paper posits that the Tabligh Jama'at has become a new benchmark with a proven global success for faith renewal, and the challenge now is for Muslims and other Islamic revivalist movements to emulate the Tabligh model of faith renewal.