Dawat-e-Islami
Dawat-e-Islami is an organization based in Pakistan. 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 a television station, Madani Channel. Dawat-e-Islami was officially founded in Karachi in September 1981 by leading scholars who selected Ilyas as its main leader.
History
and Islamic scholar Shah Ahmad Noorani, since 1973 head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, along with other Pakistani Sunni scholars, selected Ilyas Qadri, who was the then Punjab president of Anjuman Talaba-e-Islam, JUP's youth wing, aged 23, as the head of Dawat-e-Islami at Dār-ul ´Ulūm Amjadia. Dawat-e-Islami was established initially to dilute the influence of many Wahhabi group and its teachings. On 2 September 1981, Dawat-e-Islami came into being.Expansion
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. The two most significant activities of Dawat-e-Islami are Madani Qafila and Naik Amal. 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 in Multan.In October 2002, a major Pakistani English-language newspaper reported about a 3-day public gathering in the city of Multan, 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 from Karachi, Hyderabad and Nawabshah to take passengers to Multan. Ilyas Qadri spoke at the first and last sessions of the gathering.
In addition to mosques, Dawat-e-Islami has also started Dar-ul-Madinah, an Islamic school system that aims to improve conventional academic studies in conformity with Sharia.
Europe
Dawat-e-Islami expanded to the United Kingdom in 1995, holding its first Ijtima in Halifax. As of December 2019, it now has at least 38 properties in the United Kingdom which are used as a network of Masajid, Islamic centers, schools and/or Jamias in order to create future scholars for society. Some buildings have been completed and others are being worked upon. More than 100,000 British Muslims are in some form or the other associated with Dawat-e-Islami in UK. In 2009, a madrassa was opened in Rotherham, England, for the education of young children and adults.Dawat-e-Islami operates twelve centers in Greece and seven in Spain. In Athens, it has association with local Sufis and has established four centers.
Annual Islamic gatherings
Dawat-e-Islami organized an annual congregation in Multan, Pakistan until 2008, when it was discontinued for security reasons, and in Birmingham. In 2002, around 500,000 people participated in its congregation in Multan, Pakistan.Dawat-e-Islami planned to hold an annual congregation in December 1991 in Mumbai. Ilyas Attar Qadri tried to cancel it, but local activists held it anyway. A dispute about this, caused the Mumbai-based group to break away as Sunni Dawate Islami.