It is an essential part of the Tablighi Jamaat around the world as it plays a significant role on the lives of Muslims, and a huge number of people engage in Ijtema.

According to Bulbul Siddiqi, participation in Ijtema increases religious authority, status and empowerment, and contributes on the Muslim identity through the idea of brotherhood and ummah.

[3] TJ gets the attention of the wider world through its annual three-day congregational gathering that is Ijtema, with millions of people.

Because of a large number of participating people, ijtema in countries like India, Bangladesh, Pakistan become a desirable pilgrimage event for the global Tablighi Jamaat activists.

[4] Ethnographic method has been used in this research to provide an in-depth understanding of the current notion of Ijtema in Bangladesh.

Participant observation, which is the main tool of ethnographic approach, provided a deep insight into the movement and challenged some of the more homogeneous accounts of Islamisation portrayed in Bangladesh.

[5] Here, it would not be possible to understand this movement conducting traditional single site fieldwork, because the basic principle of Tablighi Jamaat is to move in various places, so I[who?]

[6] The tradition of Ijtema was initiated Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi, an Indian savant, and began as a small group of religious-minded individuals gathering at a local mosque.

For 41 years Tongi has been the chosen location, although similar programs are held on a lesser scale in other countries.

However, this movement found its inroad into East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) just after the partition of Indian subcontinent in 1947 (Sikand, 2002).

This ijtema was successful in many ways; one of them are to be able to send many jamaats to the various places in India such as Khorza, Aligarh, Agra, Buland city, Mirath, Panipath, Sonipath etc.