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{{short description|First Amir of Tablighi Jamaat (1885-1944)}}
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{{Infobox religious biography|religion=[[Islam]]
|name = Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi
|image = তাবলীগ জামাতের প্রতিষ্ঠাতা মাওলানা ইলিয়াস (রঃ).jpg
|caption =
|predecessor1 = ''Position established''
|birth_name = Akhtar Ilyas
|birth_date = 1885 (1302 [[Hijri year]])
|birth_place = [[Kandhla]], [[Muzaffarnagar]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1944|07|13|1885}} (1363 [[Hijri year]])
|death_place = [[Delhi]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|resting_place = [[india]]
|occupation = [[Da'i]]
|denomination = [[Sunni]]
|Madh'hab = [[Hanafi]]
|movement = [[Deobandi]]
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
|main_interests = [[Da'wah]]
|notable_ideas =
|notable_works =[[Tablighi Jamaat]]
|disciple_of =[[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]] Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi [[Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri]] Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi
|influences =[[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]] Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi [[Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri]] Muhammad Kandhlawi Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]] [[Abdul Qadir Raipuri]] [[Ashraf Ali Thanwi]]
|influenced =[[Zakariyya Kandhlawi]] [[Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi]] [[Manzur Nu'mani]] Ihteshamul Hasan Kandhlawi Saeed Ahmad Khan Makki [[Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi]] [[Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi]] [[Muhammad Abdul Wahhab]] Abdul Muqeet Izhar ul Hassan [[Iftikhar-ul-Hasan Kandhlawi]] [[Maulana Zubair ul Hassan]] [[Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi]] [[Tariq Jameel]] [[Israr Ahmed]]
|office1 = 1st [[Amir]] of [[Tablighi Jamaat]]
|successor1 = [[Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi]]
|known_for = Founder of Tableeghi Jamaat
}}
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'''Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī''' (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Islamic scholar]] of the Deobandi movement who founded the [[Tablighi Jamaat]], in 1925, in [[Mewat|Mewat province]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.dawn.com/news/506349 | title=Deobands battle for survival | date=3 December 2009 | newspaper=Dawn | location=Pakistan | access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|title=KANDEHLEVÎ, Muhammed İlyas|last=Alper|first=Ömer Mahi̇r}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Muhammad Ilyas was born in 1303 AH (1885/1886) in the village of [[Kandhla]], [[Muzaffarnagar district]], [[North-West Provinces]], [[British India]] (in present-day [[Shamli district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]). His year of birth can be computed by the ''tarikhi'' ([[chronogram]]matic) name "Akhtar Ilyas" ({{lang|ur|اختر الیاس}}) using [[abjad numerals]].<ref name="nadwi">{{cite book|title=حضرت مولانا محمد الیاس اور ان کی دینی دعوت / Ḥaẓrat Maulānā Muḥammad Ilyās aur un kī dīnī da'wat|date=n.d.|publisher=Maktabah Maḥmūdīyah|location=Rā’ewind [Raiwind]|language=ur|author1=Sayyid Abul-Ḥasan ‘Alī Nadwī|author-link1=Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi|orig-year=First published c. 1947}}</ref><ref name = ''personality''>{{cite book |title=Great Personalities in Islam |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aRURyQeW32QC&q=maulana+ilyas&pg=PA439 |access-date=7 May 2020 |chapter=Maulana Ilyas Kandhlavi|year = 2004| publisher=Adam Publishers & Distributors |isbn = 9788174351227}}</ref>

In a local [[Maktab (education)|maktab]] (school), he memorised one and a quarter [[Ajza']] of the [[Qur'an]], and he completed [[Hafiz (Quran)|memorising the Qur'an]] under his father's supervision in Nizamuddin area, Delhi. Thereafter, he studied the elementary books of [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language]] mostly under his father. Later on, he lived with and studied under [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]]. In 1905, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi died, when Muhammad Ilyas was 20. In 1908, Muhammad Ilyas enrolled in [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. He also studied under [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]].<ref name="talib">{{cite book |last1=Jaleel |first1=Talib |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lwAmCgAAQBAJ&q=maulana+ilyas&pg=PA1007 |title=Notes on Entering Deen Completely: Islam as Its Followers Know It |date=11 July 2015 |access-date=7 May 2020}}</ref>

==Foundation of Tablighi Jamaat==
{{See|Tablighi Jamaat}}
In the early 1920s, he prepared a team of young [[madrasah]] graduates from [[Deoband]] and [[Saharanpur]] and sent them to [[Mewat]] to establish a network of mosques and Islamic schools movement.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} He once said that if he had to attribute a name to his movement, it would have been ''Tehreek-e-Imaan'' ('Imaan/Faith Movement'). The people of [[South Asia]] started calling the devotees ''Tableeghi'' and this name eventually became popular among the common people.<ref name="hindustan">{{cite news |title = Tablighi Jamaat traces its origins to the Mewat region |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/gurugram/tablighi-jamaat-traces-its-origins-to-the-mewat-region/story-A1MBdEZzFtrNLLYdDnJbyI.html |access-date=7 May 2020}}</ref> The Tablighi Jamaat has since gone on to become one of the most widespread grassroots Islamic movements in the world with a presence in many countries, including Canada, South Africa and the UK.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Timol |first1=Riyaz |title=Structures of Organisation and Loci of Authority in a Glocal Islamic Movement: The Tablighi Jama'at in Britain |journal=Religions |date=14 October 2019 |volume=10 |issue=10 |page=573 |doi=10.3390/rel10100573 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Legacy ==
[[Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi]] wrote a biography named ''[[Life and mission of Maulana Mohammad Ilyas|Life and Mission of Maulana Mohammad Ilyas]]''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[https://www.deshrupantor.com/554812/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE-%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8-%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9 দ্বীনদরদি আলেম ইলিয়াস (রহ.)]
* {{Cite book
|last=Nadwi
|first=Abul Hasan Ali Hasani
|url=https://archive.org/download/jan-21/URDU_DAIRA_MARIF_E_ISLAMIA_VOL_19.pdf
|title=Urdu Daira Maarif Islamiya
|publisher=[[University of the Punjab]]
|year=2001
|volume=19
|editor-last=Shafi
|editor-first=Muhammad
|location=Lahore, Pakistan
|pages=373–375
|language=ur
|author-link=Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi}}
*{{cite book |last1=Nadwi |first1=Abu'l-Hasan `Ali |author-link1=Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi |title=Life and Mission of Maulana Muhammad Ilyas |url= http://www.central-mosque.com/biographies/milyas.htm}}
*{{cite web |url=http://khadimululoombaghonwali.org/english/hazrat_molana_2.html |title=Profile of Maulana Mohammad Ilyas Kandhlawi |publisher=Madrasa Islamia Arabia Khadimul-Uloom Baghonwali and Bajheri |access-date=3 May 2017 |archive-date=12 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212081802/http://khadimululoombaghonwali.org/english/hazrat_molana_2.html |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite web |url=http://twocircles.net/2010apr16/tablighi_jamaat_mewat_part_2.html |title=The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat -- Part 2 |author=Yoginder Sikand |date=17 April 2010 |publisher=TwoCircles.net |access-date=3 May 2017}}
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