Tablig/Sponsoring - 3
Next lets check how the strict "no sponsoring" rule affects the movement.
For sponsoring :
Elders that have time to spread the word, don't have money. If they work to earn money, people will lose their precious time. Businessmen here step in. And businessmen see it as their money spent for a good cause. Both sides win.
Against :
- This goes strongly against the rules of Tablig. Which specifically calls for people to spend their own money with their own time. And not someone else's money.
- With too much sponsored money flowing in, it creates an unwanted competition within the aspiring community to become an elder.
Who are affected :
Note that prior to this, being able to make a living out of sponsored money was seen as a "God given gift". A sign of being accepted. Something good and to be proud of.
Until it wasn't.
I would put most of all Alim/Scholars in the sponsored list, plus most of all Pir/Saints.
And thus my guess is that Maw Tariq Jameel to Hafez Jubair all accept and most probably run on sponsored money. Which isn't prohibited in Islam.
But Maw Saad doesn't need sponsored money. He has large inheritance from his forefathers who were land lords tax collectors from past era.
Herein started a drift. And both sides are now on two opposite sides. Which is further complicated by the fatwa/ruling from Dewband.
So who's on the right side?
That's complicated.