Yoginder Sikand examines the efforts of the Jamaat-e-Islami of India to spread madrasa reforms:

To counter widespread misconceptions about madrasas, Ahmad suggests that madrasas interact with people of other faiths who live in their vicinity and even to invite them inside. ‘Much misunderstanding about Islam and Muslims owes simply to lack of interaction between the communities’, he says. He cites a personal example. He was once traveling in a train, and a co-passenger, a Hindu woman, asked him, ‘Why do Muslims take the name of the Emperor Akbar in the azan, when they recite Allahu Akbar?’. He explained to her that this was not the case, telling her the actual meaning of the word which she had confused for the Mughal potentate. And that, he says, ‘made the woman happy’.