The effort of Dawah & Tabligh was revived in India at a time when Hz Ml Muhammad Ilyas (R.A) became aware that Muslims were losing their identity to other cultures and were living a life that had very little to do with Islamic teachings and practices. Maulana Ilyas fully aware of the difficult task ahead was determined to bring the Muslims back to the fold of true Islam. In the early 1920s, Maulana Ilyas first tried various other approaches with a very limited amount of success.

He then was inspired to revive the great and noble effort of Nabi (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) i.e. effort of Dawah & Tabligh.

The effort was met with dramatic success in a relatively short period of time, due to Maulana Ilyas’s utmost devotion, determined efforts and sincerity of purpose. As a result many Muslims joined Maulana Ilyas’s movement to preach the message of Islam in every town and village

Ml Ilyas (R.A) sought inspiration from the practices of Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) at the dawn of Islam when setting the guidelines of the effort. The teachings of the effort of Dawah & Tabligh are mainly basic and the Six Principles put forward by Muhammad Ilyas influence most of their teachings. The effort of Dawah & Tabligh encourages everyone to fulfill the Islamic requirement of sacrificing ones time and wealth for ones own spiritual upliftment and that of others.

The effort of Dawah & Tabligh lays a great deal of emphasis on one’s faith in ALLAH [God] and continuously reminds its followers of the necessity of constantly increasing one’s faith through good actions.