Dawat-e-Islami () is a Sunni 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.
History
Arshadul Qaudri and Islamic scholar Shah Ahmad Noorani, since 1973 head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), 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.
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Dawat-e-Islami was established initially to dilute the influence of many wahabi group and its teachings.
On 2 September 1981, Dawateislami came into being.
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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 (
missionary travel) and Naik Amal (self assessment questionnaires). 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.
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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.[ Da'awat moot concludes [Dawat-e-Islami article on Dawn (newspaper) Published 21 October 2002, Retrieved 9 December 2018]
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 (weekly congregation) in Halifax. As of December 2019, it now has at least 38 properties in the United Kingdom which are used as a network of Mosque, Islamic centers, schools and/or 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 United Kingdom.
Dawat-e-Islami operates twelve centers in Greece and seven in Spain.
Annual Islamic gatherings
Dawat-e-Islami organized an annual congregation in Multan until 2008, when it was discontinued for security reasons, and in Birmingham.[
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Dawat-e-Islami planned to hold an annual congregation (Ijtema) in December 1991 in Mumbai (India).
Madrasa-tul Madina (Basic Education System)
In Madrasa tul Madina, children are taught how to read the Quran in Arabic, as well as foundational Islamic studies. Currently, Madrasa tul Madina has around 3790 branches, with approximately 169,000 boys and girls studying free of charge in these institutions.
Madani Channel
Since 2009, Dawat-e-Islami is operating its Madani Channel, which had been launched with Urdu
COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, Dawat-e-Islami distributed food ration bags to needy people affected by lockdown in Pakistan. On 20 April 2020, Imran Attari said that Dawat-e-Islami had distributed 250,000 ration bags across Pakistan, including 40,000 in Karachi.[ It collected 18,000 bottles from 106 campuses across the country.]
Green Pakistan
Dawat-e-Islami started campaign for planting trees across Pakistan which aims to pollution free country.
Madani Home
Faizan Global Relief Foundation (FGRF), a welfare division of Dawateislami Dawateislami, a non-profitable organization, is building a shelter home for homeless children under its project ‘Madani Home’.
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