Introduction of Dawat-e-Islami

Dawat-e-Islami (Invitation to Islam) is an international, non-political, propagational movement of Qur'an and Sunnah. Dawat-e-Islami was founded in 1980 in Karachi, Pakistan, by Mowlana Muhammad Ilays Attar Qadri. The movement is active in more than 72 countries.
Dawat-e-Islami maintains its international headquarters in Karachi, and has several national and regional headquarters in 72 countries of the world. Its headquarters, either national or regional, are called Faizaan-e-Madina . The lower and lower-middle classes form the bulk of its cadres. Dawat-e-Islami is working in more than 41 fields. The two most significant activities of Dawat-e-Islami are madani qafila (missionary travel) and Mandani Inamaat (self assessment questionnaires).
Dawat-e-Islami arranges "Haftawar Shab-e-Juma Ijtima" (weekly gatherings) in thousands of cities of the world. These ijtimaat (congregations) mostly starts on Thursday night after Magrib prayers till Friday morning. Only in India more than 500 weekly congregations take place in different distric head cities each week.

• The ijtima is held on 322 Acers of deserted land near Multan, which is turning out to be small to hold such a huge ijtima, so Dawat-e-islami is preparing to buy more land.
• The Dawat-e-Islami held the first-ever congregation for deaf, dumb and blind students at its central headquarters Faizan-e-Madinah. Hundreds of students between 16 and 18 years of age attended the programme. They were given a revision session on how to pray, and character building. 

Members are expected to wear a green turban, brown shoulder cloth and a white dress (Kameez Shalwar). The long shirt should have a chest pocket, an additional very thin pocket to hold the Miswaak (wooden toothbrush).  

 Dawat-e-Islami operates its own non-commercial TV channel which does not show any advertisement, the Madani Channel, which broadcasts Islamic programmes 24 hours a day.The programmes broadcast include Hamd, Na'at, sermons, and "Question and Answer" sessions. Many programmes being telecast on Madani channel have now become South Asia's most watched religious programmes.