He once said that if he had to attribute a name to his movement, it would have been Tehreek-e-Imaan ('Imaan/Faith movement'). 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. He also studied under Mahmud Hasan Deobandi. In 1908, Muhammad Ilyas enrolled in Darul Uloom Deoband. In 1905, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi died, when Muhammad Ilyas was 20. Later on, he lived with and studied under Rashid Ahmad Gangohi. Thereafter, he studied the elementary books of Arabic and Persian language mostly under his father. In a local maktab (school), he memorized one and a quarter ajza' of the Qur'an, and he completed memorizing the Qur'an under his father's supervision in Nizamuddin area, Delhi. His year of birth can be computed by the tarikhi ( chronogrammatic) name "Akhtar Ilyas" ( اختر الیاس) using abjad numerals. 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). Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925, in Mewat province.
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