The 67th Aalami Tableeghi Ijtima (global Islamic congregation) began on Saturday at Ghasipura in Eintkhedi near here with the dawn prayer (Fajir Namaz). The Ijtima organizing committee in order to successfully execute the theme of this year’s Ijtima - ‘Green Ijtema- Clean Ijtema’ appealed to the devotees reaching here and to the volunteers to ensure that the venue remains polythene and tobacco free.
Considered as one of the biggest Muslim congregations in the country, the event sees people arriving here from across India and abroad. Noted Islamic scholars will also deliver discourses in coming two days.
Ijtima organizing Committee spokesman Ateeq-ul-Islam while talking to The Pioneer said, "We have appealed to the volunteers to take special care to ensure that the venue remains polythene and tobacco- free, besides strict instructions have been given to the shopkeepers for not using any polythene item."
He said that the committee has not allowed a single shop at the venue to keep tobacco products and deployed a group of 2,500 trained volunteers to manage traffic arrangements from the railway station to the venue.
Madhya Pradesh government has made special arrangements for the event that is expected to be attended by over 15 lakh Muslims from across the globe.
Maulana Akbar Sharif from Bengaluru in the inaugural sermon of the three day congregation told to respect the orders of the almighty Allah. “Human beings are the most evolved of all creations of God and hence your actions should be better than the animals. The wealth of whole world is meaningless for us if get it by overruling the order of Allah,” he added.
He said that by indulging to care for our life on earth that is temporary phase, we are destroying the life after death that is permanent as per the Islamic belief. The one who would value orders of Allah would be rewarded and those who would do disobedience of Alllah’s orders would be tormented, he added.