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Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela Mandela (September 26, 1936 – April 2, 2018)

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Palestinians in Gaza which began on Isra wal Miraaj: journey Land Day on March 30 is akin to the 1960 march on Sharpeville. A peaceful of the best to the Greatest protest was turned into a bloodbath by police and soldiers who fired live ammunition into a crowd of unarmed civilians. Since the demonstrations ‘The Night began Israeli soldiers have, to date, Journey killed 30 Palestinians, including a of Ascension journalist, and injured at least 2 860. symbolises Snipers committing state-sanctioned, premeditated murder is a crime against elevation humanity. and optimism’ No true Muslim can be a believer and remain oblivious of this state of affairs. No process of spiritual preparation for Ramadaan can endure the blight of SHAIKH SA’DULLAH KHAN such injustice without the least form of From Rajab to Ramadaan resistance, which is hatred of the evil in A COMMON supplication among the faithful around this time of The believer remains one’s heart. the year is the prayer that we have received from the Prophet’s Locally, recurring incidents of blatant Companion, Anas Bin Malik: ‘Allahuma barik lana fi Rajab wa poised for social action Shabaan, wa ballighna Ramadaan (O Allah, make the months of racism in public, and xenophobia, Rajab and Shabaan blessed for us, and let us reach the month of THE path of the sacred and the path continue to plague our country. Ramadaan). As we journey towards Ramadaan, we reflect on two major nights of social justice are inseparable. It It is evident that the psyche that has in the life of Prophet Muhammad (SAW); two nights of such signifi - is, of course, possible for people of been entrenched over the course of cance that they are specifically mentioned in the Quran. The one night is Laylatul Qadr, which occurred in the month of faith to be indifferent to social decades of apartheid has stubbornly Ramadaan, when the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was 40-years-old, justice issues. Similarly, social survived and continues to afflict us. The inaugurating his prophetic calling, marking the beginning of the revelation (the Quran) and ushering in the prophetic mission of the justice activists can choose to have Islamic ethos of a universal humanity final emissary of Allah. nothing to do with faith or religion. that does not tolerate any form of The other night is Laylatul Isra wal Miraaj, the Night Journey of As Muslims, when we fail to recognise Ascension that occurred when the Prophet was 52-years-old, and racism informs the mind and conduct of which symbolises elevation and optimism. the importance of social justice to our the believer. It also informs the essen - Ascending at a trying time faith we have essentially failed to heed tial spirit of advocacy against racism in At a most difficult period of Prophet Muhammad’s (SAW) illustri - the admonishment of the One we the heart of the believer. ous life, he experienced the am al-huzn (year of sorrow) in which he worship. Prayer and the constant remembrance witnessed the passing of two significant people in his life: one, his car - ing uncle Abu Talib, who was his guardian and political protector, The Quran states: ‘O you who have of God cannot be isolated from a deep and the other was Khadijah (RA), his most beloved wife, his confi - attained faith! Be ever steadfast in your and clear consciousness that we are all dante and the mother of his children. Khadijah was the first to embrace his faith, the financier of the nas - devotion to God, bearing witness to the made equal in the sight of God, and cent Islamic movement and Mother of the Faithful. It was at this most truth in all equity; and never let hatred that the only distinguishing criterion trying time in the life of the Prophet that Allah took His beloved ser - vant on isra or night journey (Quran 17:1). of anyone lead you into the sin of between us is our consciousness of Isra wal Miraaj was a total, all-comprehensive voyage, from alamul deviating from justice. Him and our conscious submission to mulk wash-shahadah, the horizontal journey across a visible phenom - ‘Be just: this is closest to being His laws. enal world, to alam al-malakut, the vertical cosmic pathways (tariqah) traversing all spiritual realms to haqiqah or Divine Reality. God-conscious. Poverty and the failure of the state to It was a journey that was terrestrial and celestial, earthly and heav - ‘And remain conscious of God: verily, provide the basic, constitutionally enly, physical and metaphysical, corporeal and spiritual, esoteric and exoteric, microcosmic and macrocosmic, traversed within a night yet God is aware of all that you do.’ (Surah prioritised needs of the people is a beyond normal time and space. 5:9) concern of the believer. It was a journey from creation to Creator, from orientation to the Divine House (Kaabah) to an audience with the Divine (i.e. from The connection between justice for all, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said, ‘None Kaabah to the Lord of the Kaabah), from the limitedness of being to including anyone who does not share of you will believe until you love for the limitlessness of the Absolute, from witnessing the ayaat/ divine signs and symbols to ultimately witnessing the one who is symbolised. our faith, and consciousness of God, is your brother what you love for yourself.’ It was a journey that reached far beyond the parameters of human unmistakable. Again, the fundamental act of belief in travel; it reached a point beyond which even the archangel Jibreel Being Muslim is antithetical to injustice. the Most High is premised on the could not traverse. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) ascended to the highest manifestation It is in this context that we should condition of social responsibility of the Divine Presence – the sidrat-ul-muntaha (the lote-tree, symbol - consider our devotions over the sacred towards the next human being. ising the uttermost extremity of human proximity to the Divine). Only Prophet Muhammad (SAW), the most beloved of Allah, the months of Rajab and Shabaan in Therefore, calamities like children greatest of His creation, the finest specimen of the artwork of the Ul - preparation for Ramadaan. drowning in school pit latrines are not timate Artist; only he could go to this uppermost limit, the limit of being before the Absolute. Our spiritual preparations must compel concerns limited to appalling sanitation Isra wal Miraaj is about elevation, about rising above what we pre - us to focus on faith and social justice at at schools. sume holds us back, about being motivated, being God-conscious, being positive and hopeful. The lesson of isra is never to lose hope, a time when we are witness to various These are fundamental human rights even in the darkest hour. Miraaj implies that not even the sky is the incidents of gross injustices locally and issues that affect every believing heart, limit. internationally. and should induce social action that will As Allama Iqbal wrote (in Bang-e-Dara): Akhtare shaam ke aatie hay falak se awaaz The Great March of Return of eradicate such conditions. Sajda kartie hai sahar jis ko, woh hay aaj kie raat Reh- ek gaam hay himmat ke liye Arsh-e-Bareen Kehrahi hay ye Musalman se Meeraj ki raat This call of the evening star is coming from the sky Our editorial comment represents the composite viewpoint of the Editorial Team of M uslim Views , This is the night before which the dawn humbles itself and is the institutional voice of the newspaper. Correspondence can be sent to [email protected] If you are conscientious and courageous, the Arsh (throne of the Di - vine) is but a step away Publishers: BRISKTRADE 175 (Pty) Ltd This is what the Night of Miraaj is saying to the faithful. P O Box 442 Athlone 7760 South Africa Shaikh Sa’dullah Khan is CEO of Islamia College, Cape Town. Tel: 021 696 5404 • Fax Admin: 021 696 9301 Advertising [email protected] Admin [email protected] Editor Farid Sayed This newspaper carries Allah’s names, the names of the E-mail [email protected] Fax Editor 086 516 4772 Prophets and sacred verses of the Holy Qur’an. DISTRIBUTION Your Advertiser 021 638 7491 Please treat it with the respect it deserves. Views and opinions expressed by contributors and advertisers in this publication do not necessarily reflect Either keep, circulate or recycle. those of the editorial team or the publishers. Please do not discard. 4 Muslim Views . April 2018 Madrasah tul Madina hosts 2nd annual Cape Madrasah Teachers’ Conference

Hasanain Abdullah, project co-ordinator of Awqaf SA, spoke about organisational The ‘frozen scene’, performed by the teachers of Madrasah tul Madina, was an capacity-building for madrasahs. He had to use a megaphone because of an elec - innovative, interactive way of engaging with the audience. It was an example of tricity outage in the area. He advised on how to market the madrasah well and the many ways of attracting more high school learners to the madrasah. From left make it attractive to others. He stressed the importance of the nerve centre of the to right are Mualima Adelah Arendse, Shaikh Mohammed Zabalawy, Mualima madrasah and how networking related to communications and the madrasah sys - Fairouz May, Moulana Abduraghmaan May, Mualim Abdurazak Colbie and tem would enhance the status of the madrasah, which would ultimately gain Moulana Muhammad Kamalie. The scene was presented at the second annual benefactors and draw more children to the madrasah. Cape Madrasah Teachers’ Conference. Photo ABDULLATIEF ROSSIER Photo ABDULLATIEF ROSSIER other issues and it is an immense challenge for madaris in the town - ships,’ said Shaikh Gqamane. Shaikh Riyaad Fataar, MJC deputy president, spoke about the At the second annual Cape Madrasah important role that the madrasah Teachers’ Conference held in Mitchells plays in the community, in ad - Plain, on Saturday, March 24, all the dressing the topic ‘Madrasahs to speakers received a gift from adapt or die’. Madrasah tul Madina as a token of appreciation for participating in the ‘The environment is constantly conference. Pictured are Moulana changing and we can adapt. Islam Abduraghmaan May (left), principal of is such a great religion and has the madrasah, with Farid Sayed, conference MC and editor of Muslim adapted always, and will continue Views , who was presented with a gift to adapt. Our children are exposed in apprecation of the newspaper’s to many wrongs and many wrong involvement with the community and perceptions of Islam and it is the readily pledging their support for good causes. role of the madrasah teachers to Photo ABDULLATIEF ROSSIER educate the child because once those children grow up, the only AMINA WAGGIE Shaikh Sa’dullah Khan, CEO of Islamia Shaikh Ishmael Gqamane, the ameer In his presentation, Moulana Hassiem Islamic education, in most cases, MADRASAH tul Madina College, outlined the key points in of the WC Shura Council and of the Cassiem, Western Cape chairperson they would have had is madrasah (MTM) presented their second getting across the holistic nature of Imamat Council of the Townships, of Sanzaf, stressed the value that a education,’ said Shaikh Fataar. annual Cape Madrasah Teachers’ Islam to madrasah students during his presented the challenges faced by teacher well grounded in methodology presentation at the second annual madrasah teachers, learners and brings to the classroom. Before the close of the confer - Conference at Glendale High Cape Madrasah Teachers’ Conference. parents in the townships. Photo ABDULLATIEF ROSSIER ence, some of the teachers of School Hall on Saturday, March Photo ABDULLATIEF ROSSIER Photo ABDULLATIEF ROSSIER Madrasah tul Madina performed 24, 2018. a ‘frozen scene’, where they froze The conference featured an in - in positions and would only speak teresting line-up of speakers who better madrasah education while never fully recognise African Mus - used as a safe haven for children when tapped on the shoulder by all spoke to the theme, ‘Towards a simultaneously addressing the lims as Muslim. This is seen to be due to what is happening in the an audience member. holistic madrasah system’. issue of finding ways to attract a sad and unfortunate truth in townships. The parents allow the The audience had to guess The speakers were Shaikh Sa’ - more high school students to at - many cases. children to go to madrasah not to which ayah (verse) the teachers dullah Khan, CEO of Islamia Col - tend madrasah. ‘To us as South African Blacks, learn about Islam but for protec - were acting out. This was done to lege, Moulana Hassiem Cassiem, The overall consensus was to you have your Somali, your Tan - tion. show and encourage the audience Western Cape chairperson of the incorporate fun into the learning zanian, your Nigerian; you have The madrasah is seen as a safe to use innovative ways to teach South African National Zakah environment through outdoor ac - all of them there who are Muslims place for the children to go to after children in madrasahs. Fund (Sanzaf) and imam at Sid - tivities, such as hikes and camping, but we’re not allowed to be Mus - school, a place where they can re - The conference then reiterated dique Mosque, Muallima Khadija as it is believed to be of great ben - lim. We are seen by our fellow ceive a meal for the day because the resolutions made at last year’s Allie, Muslim Judicial Council efit to the child, and which would Muslim brothers and sister as for - there may not be anything at conference and made an intention Women’s League, Hasanain Ab - attract more students. eigners to Islam yet they recognise home. But as soon as the children to fulfil those resolutions. dullah, project co-ordidnator Shaikh Ishmael Gqamane, chal - that we are from them. learn the etiquette of being a Mus - The programme not only ap - Awqaf SA, Shaikh Ishmael Gqa - lenged the theme and raised a to - ‘We are either ‘indian Muslims’, lim then the parents remove their pealed to madrasah teachers but mane, the ameer of the Western tally different concern in his ‘malay Muslims’, ‘coloured Mus - children from madrasah. also to school teachers and par - Cape Shura Council and of the address, ‘Are we holistic Mus - lims’, ‘African Muslims’ but we ‘One of the biggest challenges is ents, and was well received by all. Imamat Council of the Townships, lims?’ cannot be unified and just be Mus - to do with istinja. Parents will at Those who attended were im - and Shaikh Riyaad Fataar, deputy The shaikh believes that a per - lims, and for as long as that is the that stage stop their children from pressed with the programme and president of the Muslim Judicial son can join any religion except case, Islam will continue to remain attending madrasah because they found Madrasah tul Madina’s Council (MJC). Islam because light-skinned born foreign within our communities,’ believe that having a bottle of work to be innovative and vision - Most of the speakers focused Muslims of ‘cape malay’, said Shaikh Gqamane. water in the toilet must be some ary, and look forward to the next on effective and efficient ways to ‘coloured’ or ‘indian’ origin will He claims that the madrasah is sort of witchcraft. There are many conference.

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8 Muslim Views . April 2018 There is hope in the fight against Israeli apartheid homes. rights of Jewish people above the MAHMOOD SANGLAY March 16 also rights of Arabs. Similarly, Israel ALI Abunimah praises South marked the fif - openly prioritises Jewish rights Africans for their seriousness in teenth anniversary above universal rights. activism for the liberation of of the murder of Abunimah says he hopes the Palestine. This Palestinian- Rachel Corrie, in bill passes in the Israeli Knesset as American, founder of the Rafah. She is the it will strip away the pretence that Electronic Intifadah, visited American activist Israel is a democracy. Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and and member of ‘It will be easier to make the Cape Town from March 12 to the International case that Israel is an apartheid 18. Solidarity Move - state.’ On March 16, in the course of ment who, in Despite this narrative of de - Israeli Apartheid Week, he ad - 2003, was run spair, there is hope, asserts dressed an audience of about 380 over by an Israeli Abunimah. ‘The climate interna - people at the Human Rights Cen - soldier in a bull - tionally for solidarity with Pales - tre and Palestine Museum, in Cape dozer heading to tine has never been better.’ Town. demolish a Pales - tinian home. The There is growing international Abunimah argues that Black people of Rafah awareness that the Israeli narrative South Africans and Palestinians honoured Corrie is false, despite its propaganda of share the common experience of by establishing a liberalism, environmental conser - victims of colonialism. This year is centre in her vation and water management. the 70th anniversary of the name. The mem - Globally, the youth ‘no longer Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of ory of the fallen buys Israel’s propaganda’. Palestine, when its people were ex - inspires the spirit Abunimah exposed the Israeli pre - pelled from over 500 towns and of resistance. Ali Abunimah, centre, addressed an audience of about 380 people on March 16 at the Human Rights tence to political correctness for villages. It is also the 70th anniver - Centre and Palestine Museum. He is flanked by Anwah Nagia, Chairman of the Kaaf Trust who this demographic segment by pro - sary of when the now defunct However, the established the centre, and Martin Jansen, Chairman of the Palestine Solidarity Committee. moting ‘hip and green and pink’ apartheid National Party came paradox of ac - Photo MAHMOOD SANGLAY campaigns, including water inno - into power in South Africa. tivism for Pales - ence of the inhabitants of Gaza. dren currently in military deten - vation and technology. Apologists for apartheid in tine, argues Abunimah, is evident In the West Bank, Israel contin - tion, who are among 5 000 politi - The good news, says South Africa say the Dutch came in the hope and despair one feels. ues to expand settlements, includ - cal prisoners in Israel. Abunimah, is that Israel is failing to a barren and uninhabited land. The despair is the worsening real - ing villages like Nabi Salih. One of Palestinian citizens in Israel are in its campaign to counter the The Zionist claim of ‘a land with - ities of daily life of Israeli imposed the children of this village is Ahed often held up as evidence of Israeli growth of the BDS movement. out a people for a people without fragmentation. Almost six million Tamimi, the Palestinian teen who democracy in their propaganda. Governments, institutions, aca - a land’ is now established myth. Palestinians are displaced around visited South Africa in August However, these Palestinians are demics and businesses are increas - The inspiration South Africans the world. In Gaza, health care, 2017, and was recently impris - second-class citizens and are sub - ingly seeing Israel’s true apartheid and Palestinians draw from each water and electricity supply and oned for slapping two Israeli sol - ject to discrimination by at least nature, or at least as a reputational other, says Abunimah, is symbol - sanitation are at catastrophic lev - diers. 65 laws, including laws relating to and business risk. ised in the memorialisation of els. Abunimah asked the enrapt au - employment, education and access The triumph of South Africans bulldozed settlements of native in - ‘But the worst thing about it is dience, ‘Who has heard the name to land. over apartheid, Abunimah con - habitants. Abunimah referenced the isolation… We have no way Ahed Tamimi?’ He was unaware The recently tabled Nation cluded, gives them hope. District Six and compared this to out, the rest of the world has no of the Tamimi family’s national State Bill in Israel is designed to ‘This is the fourteenth Israeli the ongoing, and now accelerated, way in and we are forgotten,’ says tour and was duly informed of this promote the identity of Israel as a apartheid week. I fervently believe Israeli demolition of Palestinian Abunimah in reflecting the experi - fact. Tamimi is one of 300 chil - Jewish state. It also prioritises the it can be the last one.’ Muslim Views . April 2018 9 Hamba kahle umam’ uWinnie for everyone to be able to live a THANDILE KONA dignified life. THE death of umam’ uN - How should we remember this omzamo Winnie Madikizela dynamic woman? How should we Mandela has predictably led to view her legacy? How should we an outpouring of emotion across carry it forward? the length and breadth of South I choose to remember the Win - Africa. nie Madikizela Mandela we sang She was an important and in - about in the streets of our town - fluential personality in this coun - ships as young, fragile children. I try’s struggle for liberation and the choose to see her every day in the struggle against forgetting that fol - many single mothers in the lowed the dawn of democracy. shanties and townships of this Legacies of people like her, who country who strive to keep body defied the norms and charted her and soul together without the fa - own path despite her marriage to thers of their children. a man who walked out of prison Winnie Mandela’s legacy is that to the adulation of the world, will of fierce love, of a woman who always be closely scrutinised. had to be tough as nails to survive. It is that scrutiny that has ex - I want to remember the angry posed the callousness of those who Umam’ uWinnie’s soul lives on in all those many single mothers in the shanties and townships of this country who strive to Winnie Mandela, angry at oppres - can never appreciate the struggles keep body and soul together without the fathers of their children; and all those who remain angry at oppression, angry at in - sion, angry at injustice and angry justice and angry at the unrelenting oppressor. Photo ORYX MULTIMEDIA of women like umam’ uWinnie. Outside of that, she is to be warded with high political office. especially from her own organisa - at the unrelenting oppressor. Their eyes and judgement are shunned and banished to the dust - Her major sin was the audacity tion, who will now want to be as - I want etched in my mind the clouded by a hatred towards a bin of history. to challenge the men in her move - sociated with her, will pause for a memory of an uncompromising strong woman that they could not This is not unlike what was in - ment and exposing their failings in moment and examine their role in Winnie who spoke back at oppres - tame and control. flicted on her by the apartheid being the embodiment of the peo - her ostracisation. sors and who shouted back at pa - They choose to demonise her as government when they banished ple’s aspirations. It is somewhat late in the day triarchy. bloodthirsty and seek to separate her to Brandfort for what must She was also resented for refus - now for her organisation to want There are many Winnie Man - her from us, her people, whom she have been eight lonely years. ing to suffer silently and live in the to bask in the glory of her life of delas, and those who may rejoice loved so much that she refused the However, this time, the betrayal shadow of her famous husband. sacrifice. Perhaps the best they can at her death should remember that comforts that come with power. is made much more acute by the She had lived and led for many do is to emulate her by rededicat - as long as there is poverty, hunger She refused to be a part of a fact that it emanated from her years without him and she did not ing themselves to the values that and injustice, Winnie Mandela is system that thrives on exploitation own comrades, from the move - see the need to suddenly shrink in she firmly stood for. not dead. and impoverishment of the many ment for which she sacrificed so his presence. They would do well to remem - She is being reborn every day in by the few. much. It is a testimony to her in - She was steadfast in her service ber that the masses of the people Kwalanga, in Soweto, in Umlazi She was, they say, an aberration domitable spirit that she lived until and commitment to the ordinary are heeding Winnie Mandela’s ad - and many other villages and town - to the struggle for freedom and she was 81, outliving many of her people. She lived with them and vice that ‘any acceptance of humil - ships of this country. justice. tormentors. amongst them, serving them, until iation, indignity or insult is Lastly, Winnie Mandela was a According to them, the only re - The sins of umam’uWinnie are she took her last breath. acceptance of inferiority’, and they loving revolutionary and, as Che deeming feature in her life is her things that many male leaders get It is to be expected that her are no longer going to tolerate liv - Guevara said, ‘A true revolution - marriage to Nelson Mandela, a away with and continue their po - death will be milked for political ing a life of impoverishment in a ary is guided by a great feeling of man they idolise. litical careers, sometimes re - mileage. But, I hope those leaders, country that has enough wealth love.’ 10 Muslim Views . April 2018 Muslim men, we need to talk

Maybe some of our readers VANESSA RIVERA don’t see themselves as male chau - The problem is far DE LA FUENTE vinists but as the authors of ‘Dear I READ with deep interest the Indian Muslim men...’ say, ‘the too serious to root article written by Ayesha Fakie larger trend stands, and you need and Khadija Bawa, entitled ‘Dear to address it’. You need to address out with a simple Indian Muslim men: we need to it as a believing man, as you have talk’, published in the Huffington to stand up against injustice, re - #NotAllMen or Post South Africa on March 8, gardless of whether you engage in this year. male entitlement. #NotAllIndianMen. I would like to add my two The problem is far too serious cents’ worth to a conversation that to root out with a simple #NotAll - I consider relevant and very neces - Men or #NotAllIndianMen. If we do you have? How can you call sary, and should be addressed as a speak within the framework of Is - yourselves Muslims if there are community, with sincerity and ac - lamic ethics, even one oppressive women oppressors among you? countability. situation experienced by only one How can you say that you believe Ayesha and Khadija’s text is a woman is enough to make it too if you despise us? critical piece on the masculinity much. You say that you follow the ex - model that is predominant in This phenomenon is so wide - ample of Prophet Muhammad Muslim Indian communities, and Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente is a social educator and communication specialist, spread that it goes beyond the lim - (SAW) so why do you expect your their criticism is quite accurate. journalist and research consultant. She is also an independent scholar on its of the Indian community and wives to be your servants? Why women’s studies, religion and politics. The examples of male chauvin - Your comments and feedback are valued. Email her at: [email protected] emerges in other Muslim commu - are you neglecting them? Why do ism they present are part of the re - Photo SUPPLIED nities as well. The sad truth is that you justify those attitudes and be - ality of many Muslim women who ments made by Muslim women perienced racism and belittling Islam as a whole has the problem haviours of male supremacy with have to endure a male dominance from different backgrounds, from from Indian Muslims because of of a hegemonic toxic masculinity Islam when they are of your own made of attitudes and behaviours New York to Cape Town, when a my ethnicity and culture, which that affects the relationships be - doing? that constitute violence at different conversation about marriage and does not make me good enough to tween genders and the develop - For how long are you going to levels. suitors pops up. be a match for any Indian man, ment of our spirituality. manipulate our religion to skip the I would like to contribute to Before assuming they are all even if this man has a lower edu - Patriarchy does not distinguish jihad of getting rid of the poison this debate from my experience as wrong, one wonders how women cation, religious wisdom or in - between races and no culture has of male chauvinism? a Latina woman in Islam, to who do not know each other can tegrity than me. the privilege of misogyny. While in We, Muslim women, are not in whom the expressions of this male have similar opinions on a specific At the time, I was also not good South Africa a Muslim man is in - charge of reconciling your toxic chauvinism are not strange or issue such as this one. enough to get the support of any sulting his wife, a shaikh in Rabat masculinity with the teachings of alien. Ayesha and Khadija mention Indian woman or Indian Muslim is offering a khutbah on how to Islam about equality, respect and Since I embraced Islam in 2010, racism as an important compo - feminist in South Africa when beat a woman without leaving compassion. You have to take re - I have heard similar opinions nent of male supremacy, which such a man abused me emotion - marks, and a reverted Muslim in sponsibility, if you say you believe. about Muslim Indian men from they base on how Muslim Indian ally. Colombia justifies that he has bro - It is time for a deep, open and my sisters in faith: ‘They are bad men treat ‘coloured or black do - Racism in the Indian commu - ken his wife’s nose saying that the critical self-reflection on masculin - husbands’, ‘They are the worst’, mestic workers’. I would like to nity does not only come from Quran gives him the right to do ity in Islam. ‘They are everlasting mom’s ba - add black and ‘coloured’ Muslim men. However, due to male supe - so. I do think that in 1 400 years, bies’, ‘They do not want a wife but women and ‘non-white’ reverts. riority, men are generally in a po - So, I ask you my dear Muslim you’ve gathered enough courage a slave’, are some of the state - As a Latina Muslim, I have ex - sition to exercise it. men out there: What kind of Islam to do it. Muslim Views . April 2018 11 A Muslim’s duty is to tackle racism

It is well documented that come from fellow African coun - of the Muslim slaves brought to racism was abhorred by Prophet tries? our shores ensured that their reli - This is an abridged version of Muhammad (SAW). If we have any doubts about gion became a rallying point a pre-khutbah talk delivered Islam came as a unifying force why racism is wrong, and why it against colonialism and slavery. on March 16 at Masjidul in Arabia at a time when race, must be tackled, we can refer to Today, we should be asking Islam, Brixton, in wealth, lineage, gender and power the final sermon of the Prophet ourselves some of the deeper ques - Johannesburg, by IMAM determined one’s status in Arabian (SAW), when he said: ‘All hu - tions, like why so many of our EBRAHIM MTHOKOZISI society. mankind is from Adam and own institutions remain largely MASEKO, an Honours The Prophet’s (SAW) commu - Hawa. untransformed despite Islam being student in Religion at nity constituted Sahabah (Com - ‘An Arab has no superiority in this country for over 300 years. University of Johannesburg. panions) from different nations – over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab Why is it that after so many The talk was part of the Arab, Roman, Persian, African. any superiority over an Arab. years, amongst so many people, Anti-Racism Week organised There were also slaves, the ‘Also, a white has no superior - there is still the misconception that by the Ahmed Kathrada wealthy, the poor, women and ity over black nor a black any su - Islam is an ‘Indian’ religion, de - Foundation. men, young and old, weak and periority over white except in spite there being millions of Mus - powerful, the disabled – in piety and good action. lims across the African continent? DESPITE an end to apartheid in ple or government alone. essence, people from all back - ‘Learn that every Muslim is a What notions about our own 1994, reports indicate that there It is incumbent upon all indi - grounds. brother to every Muslim and that religion are we portraying that this is a resurgence of racist incidents viduals and institutions. It is not And we know that at the con - the Muslims constitute one broth - misconception still remains? and a hardening of racist only about securing one’s own quest of Makkah, in a society erhood.’ Why are our ulama only taught attitudes in South Africa. rights but also about entrenching where race, wealth and status So, if Islam, in its earliest years Arabic and Urdu in many of our This coincides with persisting the collective dignity of all people. meant everything, the Prophet was at the forefront of fighting institutions, and not isiZulu, isiX - inequality largely defined by race (SAW) sent a former black slave, prevailing racist attitudes in Ara - hosa or tshiVenda? in South Africa, a weakened econ - Racism is wrong from Bilal (RA) to climb atop the bia, what can Muslims do today Do our ulama not serve the omy, political tensions and a resur - an Islamic perspective Kaabah and recite the adhaan. to tackle racism? broader South African public? gence of tribalism, sporadic In Surah Hujuraat, Allah says: If one goes for Hajj today, one There are several strategies that Why can we so easily condemn xenophobic attacks and en - ‘O humankind, indeed We have can get a sense of the totality of we can employ but at its heart is a racism – and rightfully so – when trenched patriarchal values, laying created you from male and female cultures and ethnicities that consti - realisation that the racists are not it comes to apartheid Israel but the basis for ongoing social insta - and made you peoples and tribes tute the ummah today. just the ones who use the ‘k’ word when a family member expresses bility. that you may know one another. Yet, how often do we hear peo - or who beat up people because of similar racism at the dinner table It also coincides with the re- Indeed, the most noble of you in ple from within our communities their race. or refuses to allow an African do - emergence of neo-fascist ideology the sight of Allah is the most right - using racial terminology? Racism is perpetuated some - mestic worker to eat from the globally that is anti-Black, anti- eous of you. Indeed, Allah is How often do we judge peo - times because we have normalised same cutlery as everyone else in Muslim, anti-immigration and Knowing and Acquainted.’ ple’s personalities – their honesty, it. the home, we are silent? anti-Jew. (49:13) their integrity, their intelligence, When this happens, we ensure These are the deeper and frank In the face of the global rise of Allah did not create dark or based on race? that our society remains rooted in conversations that we need to be racism, the progressives in society light skin as a tool of discrimina - How differently do we treat a conservatism that is uncharacter - having in our community so as to are left with two options, to either tion but as a sign to realise His people based on the colour of their istic to the very nature of Islam. change the attitudes that persist. remain silent and retreat or stand creative might and to appreciate skin? Not only is it uncharacteristic Islam has always been at the up to racism and commit to root - the beauty in diversity of His cre - Take a simple example of the of Islam in the broader sense but forefront of non-racism. ing it out in every sphere. ation. people we employ as domestic uncharacteristic of Islam in its We encourage you here today Combatting racism is not the We have been created differ - workers in our homes or how we early days in our country as well. to commit to becoming an activist job of one organisation, a few peo - ently to ‘know’ one another. may treat our muadhins who often We must remember that many for this key principle in Islam.

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Provincial Government of the mously appointed by the However, the reports have not Western Cape (PGWC) on March representatives of the other three yet been circulated to the public. 14 presented their vision for the major Halaal authorities to repre - development of the Halaal sent their interests on the IHCC. Convergence industry in South Africa. The other Halaal authorities between stakeholders The meeting promised more are the Islamic Council of South The presentation by the chair - than a better working relationship Africa (ICSAHT), the South person of the IHCC, Professor between the IHCC and the HCF. African National Halaal Authority Ebrahiem Arnold, at the HCF Initial tensions that had emerged (SANHA) and the National Inde - meeting on March 14, at Interna - due to discontent over the lack of pendent Halaal Trust (NIHT). tional Peace College South Africa meaningful participation, particu - Thirdly, on December 19, (Ipsa), reflected the convergence of larly in decision-making processes 2017, the management of the intention and vision between the managed by the IHCC, appear to HCF was formally moved from IHCC and relevant departments in have been resolved. the control by the Department of the PGWC. This includes a sup - The key role players engaging in discussions on promoting the Halaal sector in The Muslims on the forum ex - the Western Cape met at the PGWC offices in Cape Town on March 27. They are, Agriculture (DOA) in the PGWC portive role of the PGWC to the pressed concern that the custodi - from left, Nezaam Joseph, acting chief director, Economic Sector Support, Dr Dirk to the Department of Economic IHCC and the new entity it anship of Halaal as part of sacred Troskie, director, Business Planning and Strategy, Department of Agriculture, Development and Tourism formed. law and as economic enterprise Professor Ebrahiem Arnold, chairperson of the Interim Halal Co-ordinating (Dedat). The IHCC broadly supports the Committee, Rashid Toefy, deputy director general of Economic Operations, and was being appropriated and ex - Khalid Khan, Workforce Development and Innovation in the Department of While the DOA remains an im - development of the Halaal sector ploited by corporations that have Economic Development and Tourism. Photo MAHMOOD SANGLAY portant PGWC stakeholder in the in the interests of job creation, no interest in Islam or Muslims. regional Halaal industry, the HCF growth in tourism and broader They also asserted that the such a council is to represent and that it must still undertake an out - is now directly under the auspices economic development. Arnold commodification of the sacred as - protect the interests of the public reach programme to make the of the new deputy director general concluded his presentation by ar - pect of Halaal should be opposed through the office of a Halaal in - body more representative of the of Dedat, Rashid Toefy. The IHCC guing that Muslims have a com - because the immutable and ab - dustry ombud empowered to in - broader Muslim community. On now also engages directly with munal obligation, as part of solute values derived from the sa - vestigate and adjudicate relevant December 2, 2017, the IHCC Dedat. Muslim legal doctrine, to protect cred texts of Islam cannot be complaints. adopted a resolution to register The fourth important develop - the integrity of Halaal. subjected to the conventions of the non-profit entity, the South ment is the appointment of Afmas, The meeting recognised that human trade and exchange. Four key developments African Halal Development Coun - an independent service provider to this includes the involvement of In addition, there is also a need The engagement of Muslims on cil. document global Halaal best prac - Muslims at the highest levels in for greater inclusiveness of Mus - the forum with the HCF on these A second development was the tices and to assess the current trade and in regulation of the in - lim-owned businesses and educa - concerns led to four key develop - recognition among the majority of South African Halaal standards dustry. tion, training and capacity ments. The first was the establish - Muslim members on the IHCC and certification processes. The meeting further recognised building of previously disadvan - ment of the IHCC at the meeting that they support the idea of a sin - The final report of Afmas is ex - that the concepts of ‘halaal’ and taged groups in the industry. on October 28, 2017. The mission gle, world class Halaal standard pected to detail an implementation ‘tayyib’, as described in the Finally, the IHCC recognised of the IHCC is to strive to repre - sustained by appropriate gover - plan for a proposed single Halaal Quran, are integrally connected the need for a Halaal Consumer sent the interests of the Muslim nance and regulatory structures. standard and certification require - and complementary, and that fur - Council to regulate the national community. The four major Halaal author - ment on par with global best prac - ther discussion on the importance Halaal industry. Part of the role of However, the IHCC recognised ities present at the various meet - tice. of the latter concept is necessary. 14 Muslim Views . April 2018 Itheko runner to attempt Guinness Record in leprechaun suit ‘It is cruel that basic facilities AMINA WAGGIE are denied to the rightful owners KAMIL Suleiman, a member of of the land. It is barbaric that elec - Itheko Sport Athletic Club and tricity supply is deliberately cut the Runners for the Freedom of from hospitals. Palestine (RFP) activist group, is ‘The world keeps silent when planning to run the 2018 Virgin three generations of a family are Money London Marathon, in a killed by a missile striking a resi - leprechaun suit. dential building. The race takes place in the ‘Ethnic cleansing is being com - United Kingdom on April 22, mitted right in front of our eyes. 2018. The heinous crime that should It has always been a dream for never have existed in the 21st cen - RFP, to have their members partic - tury is being sanctioned by the in - ipate in major international events fluential Zionists. and this dream is now being re - ‘We know that apartheid is alised. wrong for Palestinians as it was He will make an official at - wrong for South Africans. There - tempt to break the current Guin - fore, raising awareness about the ness world record for the ‘fastest plight of the Palestinians who marathon dressed as a lep - must be allowed to live in their rechaun’, which stands at two own homes is a moral obligation. hours, 59 minutes and 30 seconds, This is what the Runners for the achieved by Adam Jones in April Freedom of Palestine stands for. 2015. This Irish costume was col - ‘This is a loud and clear way of lectively chosen by RFP. Kamil Suleiman during a practice run in the leprechaun suit, in preparation for the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon. expressing our solidarity with the When deciding on which Guin - Photo ZUNAID ISMAIL oppressed,’ said Suleiman passion - ness record to select, RFP had to to the Palestinian cause from dif - even more fulfilling, and being in expressing solidarity with the ately as he expressed how close the choose based on practicality, abil - ferent fronts, such as from the Ire - the Guinness Book of World Palestinians and that has a ripple Palestinian cause is to his heart ity and whether or not it would land Palestine Solidarity Records for being the fastest run - effect in encouraging to question and the members of the RFP. send a positive message. After Campaign (IPSC), Students for ner in any category (in this case, and reject Zionism and the occu - RFP has simple but powerful much deliberation, Safoudien Justice in Palestine, and Trade the fastest marathon dressed as a pation of Palestine. ways of raising awareness about Bester, co-founder of RFP, sug - Union Friends of Palestine,’ said leprechaun), which self-respecting ‘It makes me so proud and the Palestinian plight. gested the Irish costume, which Suleiman. runner wouldn’t want to be there?’ happy to do it for the people who Their main activities are to run the members were very happy After agreeing on the lep - smiled Suleiman. deserve the attention, people who different races and, on training about. rechaun costume, they did a thor - He believes that breaking the have been deliberately ignored by runs, hoisting the Palestinian flag, The costume is playful, it ough investigation to find out if record will be a great feat, and will the mainstream media, the Pales - picketing in front of parliament stands out and it also relates to the wearing the costume would in any draw much attention to the Pales - tinian people. It is not right to and standing with flags on bridges Irish people. As a people who also way offend or be derogatory to the tinian cause. He sees the strategy keep silent when victims are being during peak traffic hours. suffered under occupation and Irish, and a member of their club, of the Zionists to be intimidatory blamed. It is not just when free - They also have occasional ac - dominance, the Irish understand Rabia Harris, who has Irish citi - and considers many to be inti - dom fighters are portrayed as ter - tivities, depending on capacity and the plight of the Palestinians very zenship, rubber stamped it. mated, and thus they refrain from rorists. timing. In 2017, they hosted their well and they are at the forefront ‘Breaking this record will be a showing any sign of opposing the ‘It is unacceptable that innocent inaugural ‘5km Run Walk for of global solidarity with Palestine. great achievement for me person - occupying entity Israel. children and mothers are defined Palestine’, which started at the ‘When you read about their ac - ally, as a social runner. Running a By running with the Palestinian as ‘national security threats’ by the Green Point lighthouse, and in tion, you read a very solid support great time internationally will be flag, Suleiman is unapologetically occupier. which hundreds participated.

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NURUDEAN SSEMPA OVER 130 businesses belonging to nationals from other countries were torched by local people in Zwelihle township in the Overstrand municipality, Hermanus. The protesters were demanding land from government. ‘Our members lost merchandise worth thousands of rands when their shops were attacked, goods stolen and then [shops] burnt down,’ says Ahmed Mohamed, a leader of the Somali community in Hermanus. Fahima Munir standing outside her Fahima’s spaza shop was looted and damaged in the xenophobic attacks. Mrasa and Islamic Relief South Africa ‘I don’t know where to start spaza shop. It was broken into, all her Photo AHMED HASSAN were among the organisations that from. This shop was the only merchandise was stolen and her provided emergency relief to the property damaged. housing list corruption, where migrants who were working in migrant community in Zwelihle, source of income for my family,’ Photo AHMED HASSAN money allegedly changed hands to Zwelihle, life may never be the Hermanus. Photo AHMED HASSAN lamented Fahima Munir, one of get names moved up on a housing same. the victims while taking the writer lamic Centre, on the main road in list, pushing off people who had Adnaan Adam, a refugee from among other things. There are also around what was left of her spaza Hermanus, and at a community been waiting for housing for more Somalia, is an example. This is the the misconceptions that migrants shop. hall. than a decade. fourth time in six years that he has take advantage of the local com - Although Fahima has been in ‘A mosque is a safe space and They also alleged that the mu - lost his business in xenophobic at - munity and thus end up being vic - South Africa for 18 years and in we welcomed everyone,’ said nicipality was selling off land that tacks. It had taken him two years tims in riots and strikes. Hermanus for more than six years, Shaikh Aslam Tambara, the imam they could be settled on, to private to re-establish himself in Her - Other studies have indicated her spaza shop was not spared. of the Islamic centre. developers instead of first provid - manus. that a major cause of recent xeno - The rioters broke into her shop, Apart from the spaza shops ing land for them. ‘I would go to another country phobic attacks was the result of stole all the merchandise and then that were torched, a library, a Although the protests ended on if I had the means,’ said the father the resentment felt by unemployed set it ablaze. Fahima, a refugee satellite police station, government March 27, after a settlement was of two boys, looking heartbroken. South Africans towards nationals from Somalia, looked broken and houses, a municipal housing of - reached between the aggrieved ‘Many others are like him, trau - from other countries who, they be - was still wondering what her next fice, a recycling plant and a private community members and the matised and needing support,’ lieve, are the cause of their unem - step would be. She is a mother and vehicle were counted among the provincial government, to many says Shaikh Aslam Tambara of the ployment by taking available jobs. they are eight in the family. properties damaged, looted or Ismail and Miriam Ibrahim Is - But analysis of data from the According to Brigadier Dono - torched. Brigadier Donovan Heil - lamic Centre. Quarterly Labour Force Survey van Heilbron, the Hermanus po - bron said that several people had According to different studies, shows that South Africans make lice officer who commanded the been arrested for public violence the recurring xenophobic attacks up over 90 per cent of those em - operation, no lives were lost. But related to the protests. in townships in South Africa are ployed in all sectors, including the refugees and immigrants in Protests started on Thursday, related to poor service delivery, self-employment. Migrants tend to Zwelihle, many of whom lost all March 22, when local people in be concentrated in self-employ - their items, are still traumatised. the Zwelihle township tried to ment (30 per cent), followed by Many migrants who were af - mark out and occupy plots for Ahmed Mohamed (right) a leader of services (12 per cent), construction the Somali community in Hermanus fected by the riots sought refuge at themselves on vacant municipal narrating to the writer events before (12 per cent) and domestic work the Ismail and Miriam Ibrahim Is - land near Zwelihle. They alleged and after the xenophobic attacks. (11 per cent). Photo AHMED HASSAN 16 Muslim Views . April 2018

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(Quran 5:1) ADVOCATE FATIMAH ESSOP continues her discussion on the Although, historically, this is Uqbah bin Amir (RA) related implications of a marriage conducted by an imam who is not a not the urf (custom) in South that the Prophet (SAW) said, ‘… registered marriage officer. Advocate Fatimah Essop is pictured Africa, the marriage contract the shuroot which warrant the left. Photo SUPPLIED should ideally be in writing and most to be fulfilled are those (shu - signed in the presence of wit - root) set in nikah.’ (Bukhari and The Prophet (SAW) gave her In terms of South African law, nesses. others) the right to repudiate the mar - minors cannot marry unless the As long as the conditions are However, in the South African riage. (Sunan Abu Dawud) prescribed consent to the marriage not haraam (prohibited), the par - context, should one of the parties In addition, the parties need to has been given. ties can agree on any conditions breach, the local imam or Muslim have reached a certain level of ma - For the purposes of the Mar - that will suit their life together as judicial body will not have any turity (rushd) to conclude a mar - riage Act, a minor is someone who husband and wife. power to legally enforce the con - riage contract. is under 21 and has never been Parties can include provisions tract or to hold any of the parties The age of maturity (rushd) and married before. on the husband’s duty of support liable for breach. puberty (bulugh) are not the same Such persons (minors) will re - and the extent thereof, the acqui - An aggrieved party will have to LAST month, I briefly sketched thing. quire the written consent of both sition of property, the wife’s right approach the South African courts the three different options There are young girls who their parents or some other party to work, study or travel, the right to enforce performance of the con - available to those who wish to reach puberty at nine-years-old listed in the Act if they wish to of the wife to maintenance after tract. In the case of Ryland v conclude a Muslim marriage. but this does not mean that they marry. divorce etc. Edros 1997 (2) SA, the court en - This month, I continue to dis - have reached maturity or that they A boy under 18 and a girl The wife should also stipulate forced certain conditions that cuss the first option only, namely, have the capacity to enter into a under 15, in addition to their par - the mahr (dower) as part of her flowed from a Muslim marriage those who conclude a nikah con - contract. ents’ written consent, also require contract. contract. ducted by an imam who is not reg - Rushd refers to the ability to the written consent of the minister A really important condition For instance, in that matter, the istered as a marriage officer. act with discernment, to be able to of home affairs to conclude a valid that I would encourage women to court held that the wife was enti - This marriage is fully recog - reason and rationalise when faced marriage contract. include in their contract is a pro - tled to a consolatory gift (mu’tah) nised in Islamic law but receives with decisions about one’s per - These consents apply to Mus - vision for talaq-i-tafweed, which is if the divorce was at the unjusti - limited recognition in terms of sonal life or property. lim marriages as well, as the Chil - a right of divorce that has been fied behest of the husband. South African law. Determining the age of rushd dren’s Act of 2005 stipulates that delegated to her by the husband In conclusion, I would seriously A marriage in Islam is a civil depends on the context one finds a child below the minimum age set and that is recognised under clas - advise Muslim couples to draw up contract between two consenting oneself in. by law for a valid marriage may sical Islamic law. an Islamic contract of marriage parties, which gives rise to per - It includes taking into account not be given in marriage or en - I will elaborate further on the before they conclude their nikah. sonal rights and obligations. factors like the education and cul - gagement, which includes a mar - talaq-i-tafweed when dealing with This will help regulate their Mus - Implicit in this understanding ture of the people. riage concluded in accordance the dissolution of Muslim mar - lim marriage and will potentially of a marriage contract is that nei - It is therefore important to con - with religious law. riages but, basically, it is a provi - reduce disputes in the event of dis - ther party can be forced to enter sider our position as Muslims in So, even though a marriage by sion where the husband grants the solution. into a marriage. the South African context. nikah is not recognised as valid by wife a unilateral right to terminate Advocate Fatimah Essop has a It is reported that once a virgin Our children generally com - South African law, minors are still the marriage contract through a degree in Islamic Law and Arabic girl went to the Prophet (SAW) plete their schooling at 18 years obliged to obtain the requisite talaq. from International Peace College and said that her father had mar - but many of them are not capable consents when concluding a The above marriage contract South Africa (Ipsa) and is ried her to a man against her of earning a living or supporting a nikah. will be binding on both parties in currently a PhD candidate in wishes. family at that stage. As the Muslim marriage is a terms of Islamic law, as Allah Law at UCT. Muslim Views . April 2018 19

TILL GOD INHERITS THE EARTH The story of waqf in Andalusia (Spain) Therefore, if there was a dispute important documentary source for offspring; ZEINOUL ABEDIEN CAJEE or query regarding the use or its study’. l for the sick from Cordoba; ‘AND to Allah belongs the abuse of a waqf, the matter could The study analyses the vast ex - l celebration of the night of the heritage of the heavens and the be referred to the relevant qadi, tent for which various awqaf were Prophet’s (SAW) birthday earth. And Allah is fully who was empowered to provide established during this golden pe - (moulood); acquainted with all that you do.’ binding rulings on the query or riod of Islamic civilisation. l founding of a zawiya; (Quran 3:180) dispute at hand. In fact, it can be argued that the l the donation of half a house A leather Quran case from the Nasrid period (1232-1492), second half of 15th The presence of pious endow - Dr Alejandro Garcia Sanjuan waqf system played a central role and half a vineyard to a century Spain, embroidered with gilt- ments or awqaf during the ninth conducted a PhD study on the Is - in the civilisational development mosque; silver wire. The inscription on the case to fifteenth centuries in Andalusia lamic pious endowments in An - of the society owing to the flexibil - l donating trees to a mosque; reads, ‘La ghalib ila Allah’ (‘No (present day Spain) gives us a clear dalusia, entitled Till God inherits ity – within the confines of shariah l the donation of some pigeons; conqueror but Allah’). indication of its importance and the earth . – that social benefit projects could l purchasing horses to be em - Photo SUPPLIED role in Muslim society. He used various sources, in - be supported or developed ployed fi sabilillah/ jihad; l for purchasing clothes for or - Awqaf grew in number, quality cluding The Miyar Al Murib by through the waqf. l parents donating a house to phans; and purpose from the 8th century Ahmad al Wansharisi; Andalusian Some of the waqf projects in children and their descendants l in favour of poor students; onwards, during the emirate pe - compilations of jurisprudence; no - Andalusia were used for: or, were they not to have de - l donating an oven to be used to riod, into a highly complex system tarial treatises, waqfiyyahs and l buying bread for the weak and scendants, to the neighbouring serve the needs of the mosque; until the conquest of Spain by model documents; secondary the indigent during Ramadaan; mosques and the income to be l donating orchards in favour of Christian armies in 1459. sources and Granada’s books of l buying food to distribute used for its maintenance; the donor’s hometown Awqaf proliferated in every vil - habices (Spanish for awqaf). among the poor and the infirm; l donating books to a library for mosques; lage and city in Andalusia, one of These sources provide informa - l ransoming captives – half for reference purposes only; l the donation of articles for per - the key characteristics of the waqf tion of the social milieu or context men and half for fatherless l financial support for ulama – sonal use, like jewels and vari - system being its decentralisation in in which awqaf were created and women; qari al ilm and qari al hadith; eties of fabrics and items of terms of founding, control and managed, the variety of queries re - l in favour of a sufi lodge (ra - l in favour of whoever recites clothing which could be bor - management, making it a true civil ceived by the qadi and his re - bita); Quran on the founder’s grave rowed by the poor when getting society phenomenon. sponses and rulings. l for water wells i.e. the construc - on a particular night; married; However, all ahbas (as awqaf The purpose of the study was to tion, the ropes, buckets and l the construction of pathways, l providing water for people vis - are referred to in the Maghribi discern the nature of Islamic soci - other utensils; main streets, squares, land en - iting the market to drink; countries) were under the jurisdic - ety in Andalusia. The ‘widespread l for the fortress of Archidona; dowments and trees for the l the donation of oil for lighting tion of the qadi. (A parallel can be development of pious endow - l for poor relatives – both from poor; mosques, libraries and for read - drawn in South Africa where all ments in Al-Andalus and the vol - father’s and mother’s side – l the sponsorship of students of ing books. ‘trusts’ are under the jurisdiction ume of jurisprudence which has starting with the most needy; the town as a maintenance This article was compiled by of the Master of the High Court). been preserved on the issue… con - l waqfs established by women in grant; Zeinoul Abedien Cajee from the The qadi had a sub-qadi and stitutes, together with the books of favour of their financially strug - l salaries for university lecturers treatise of Dr Alejandro Garcia were found in all the major cities. habices from Granada, the most gling husbands, their sons and and teachers; Sanjuan. 20 Muslim Views . April 2018

The golden Meezab-e-Rahmah

The sharp spikes on the spout of the meezab prevent birds from perching or nesting there. Photo SALIM PARKER

The golden meezab is positioned above the Hijr Ismail, near the top of the Kaabah. Photo SALIM PARKER when the Kaabah was renovated and the clean-up process started in SALIM PARKER in 1417 AH (1996). The dimen - earnest. THE meezab is the golden spout sions were retained as they were The reconstruction of the from where rainwater on the roof when the Ottoman emperor, Sul - Kaabah started on the 26th of Ra - of the Kaabah falls onto the Hijr tan Abdul Majeed Khan, reno - madaan (May 9, 1630). By the Ismail, in the Hateem area. vated the meezab in 1273 AH. 2nd of Dhul-Hijjah, 1040 (July 2, It is reported that the Prophet (1855/56) 1631), the construction was tak - (SAW) supplicated under the In 1039 AH (1630), because of ing place under the guidance of meezab, which is commonly re - heavy rain, flood and hail, two of Sultan Murad Khan, the Ottoman ferred to as the ‘Meezab-e- the walls of the Kaabah collapsed. khalifah. Rahmah’ (Water Outlet of Mercy). The flood during which this oc - From the point of the Hajaratul The Quraish were the first to con - curred took place on the 19th of Aswad (Black Stone) and below, struct a roof on the Kaabah when Shabaan, 1039 AH (April 2, 1630) the current construction is the they reconstructed it after it had which continued relentlessly. same as that done by Abdullah ibn been damaged by floods. It is reported that the water lev - az-Zubayr. Nabi Muhammad (SAW) was els rose to nearly halfway up the The construction which was A close-up view of the water outlet leading to the meezab of the Kaabah. about 35-years-old at the time. walls. done under the auspices of Murad Photo SALIM PARKER The Quraish then attached a The next day, the eastern and Khan was exactly the one done at had built it before Prophethood. only original parts left of the downpipe from the roof. western walls collapsed. The flood the time of Abdul Malik ibn Mar - The gutter and outlet pipes Kaabah are the stones. The meezab was remodelled receded on Friday, Shabaan 21, wan, which is the way the Quraish were included in this reconstruc - All other material have been re - tion. In 1854, Abdulmecid I, the placed, including the ceiling and Ottoman sultan (1839-1861), or - the roof and its wood. dered a golden gutter. The recent gutter was hand - A major reconstruction of the crafted from pure gold at the be - Kaabah took place between May hest of the late King Fahd. 1996 and October 1996. This was This gutter is also known as the after a period of about 400 years ‘rainspout of blessing’ and Mus - (since Sultan Murad Khan’s time). lims believe that prayers under the During this reconstruction, the gutter are granted by Allah.

The recent gutter was handcrafted from pure gold at the behest of the late King The box-shaped roof of the Kaabah leads to water accumulation, hence the need for the meezab to allow the water to flow Fahd. Muslims believe that prayers under the gutter are granted by Allah. away. Photo SALIM PARKER Photo SALIM PARKER Muslim Views . April 2018 21 Bilal Philips and the question of the Prophetic ‘madh-hab’

though condemned to death by When I put it to him that ta - temple and reciting ‘om’. SHAFIQ MORTON Isis, is banned in five countries. sawwuf was based on Shariah (sa - When I asked him to define WIKIPEDIA, the search engine He has caused anger in Canada cred law), Tariqat (the Path) and Salafi, he answered that it was an oracle, describes Dr Abu for apparent homophobic state - Haqiqat (Realisation), and that ‘approach’; an ‘approach’ based Ameenah Bilal Philips as being ments, and the media in Europe without the shariah, you could not on the pious predecessors and the born Dennis Bradley Philips in has labelled him a ‘hate preacher’. have Sufism, he agreed that it Prophet (SAW), in contradistinc - 1946, and says he is a There were even appeals to Dirco would not be outside the fold of tion to those who chose to deviate. Jamaican-born Canadian Muslim to cancel his visa, and when he Islam. Here, he was concurring In my simple understanding of teacher, speaker and author who spoke at Wits University, Mail and with the classical scholars. things, surely this was historical lives in Qatar. Guardian reported that his views But tawassul, or intercession, reductionism? Wasn’t this ‘devia - ‘He appears on Peace TV – on women caused a public talk to for him was shirk, or polytheism, tion’ over 1 000 years of classical which is a 24-hour Islamic satellite be cancelled. he opined, deviating from the clas - tradition? TV channel – and considers him - When he came to Cape Town, I sical scholars. ‘If we define it as Apparently not, for Dr Philips self a Salafi, a person who advo - was assigned to interview him on calling on the dead to carry our also told me that the doors of ijti - cates a traditional, literal form of VOC’s Drivetime. There were prayers to Allah on our behalf, it had, or scholastic reasoning, had Islam,’ says the page. questions from the start. Why was is shirk,’ he said. never closed. And this is where I There are many who would VOC doing this? However, expe - Dr Philips is fully entitled to his must admit I got confused for I agree with the ‘literal’ bit but few rience has taught me two things: view but I feel he would have to was informed that while the four would concur that Salafism – censorship is a slippery slope in a explain the sound tradition related imams of legal thought – Imam birthed in Saudi Arabia – is ‘tradi - constitutional democracy such as by Bayhaqi. This was when Malik, Abu Hanifah, Imam Shafii tional’. Reductionist, intolerant of ours. Sayyidina Bilal requested the and Imam Hanbal – were fully ac - any views other than its own and And then there is an amanah, a Prophet (SAW) in his grave, during knowledged, the Salafis followed said to be the well-spring of mod - public responsibility, to inform the the rule of Caliph Umar, to ask the ‘madh-hab’ of the Prophet ern day extremism, Salafism (or public about critical issues in a Allah for rain because the people (SAW). Wahhabism) expropriates for itself dignified fashion. What would be were suffering. None of the Com - The ‘madh-hab’ of the Prophet the Sunni centre of Islam. the point of two greybeards going Shaikh Bilal Philips panions called Bilal a kafir or a (SAW)? Okay. Interesting. The However, Dr Bilal Philips – toe-to-toe on air? What example Photo ZAID DANTE/MJC mushrik because of that. Prophet (SAW) provided us with who studied in Madinah over 40 would it set to the youth? criticised vehemently in the past, ‘Call on me and I will answer the Quran. He gave us the Sun - years ago – is no stereotype. Con - Rather, as I was told years ago, he explained that he was against you,’ said Dr Philips, quoting nah, his words and deeds. But he versant with the mainstream and give your guests the courtesy of its ‘extremes’ and the claims (not verse 60 of Surat ul-Ghafir. ‘Duah never gave us a madh-hab, or a the needs of young people, the vig - the rope. Gently ask the right mentioned) made by its shaikhs. is the essence of worship.’ Correct, legal school of thought. orous 70-year-old has garnered a questions, and if they are ‘inno - Essentially, I understood, he was yes. Agreed. But, I asked myself, The Prophet (SAW) gave our considerable following, especially cent‘, they will prove to be. And if not against its centre, only its ‘ex - what about Allah saying in verse pious predecessors the tools for via his project, the Islamic Online they are ‘guilty’, they will hang tremes’. 35 of Surah al-Ma’idah, ‘O, you legal thought, for dynamic reason - University, which was established themselves, and save you a lot of Sufism was like Hinduism, he who believe in Allah, seek you the ing – or ijtihad – based on Quran in 2007. effort. went on. From the outside, it means to Him’? and Sunnah. I was informed that his visit to During our 30-minute session, looked like a single faith, but from On the question of dhikr, Dr These were the cudgels taken South Africa last month was to I would say that Dr Philips – who the inside, well, it was not. Sufism Philips mentioned that whole up by people such as Ibn Abbas offer scholarships. was pleasant and personable – cer - appeared to us as one body but, in phrases such as ‘Subhanallah’ and so many others like him. But But, let it be said, Dr Philips is tainly played with the rope. But reality, it was not, he added. mentioned in the Quran, or by the the Prophet (SAW) never gave us a no ordinary Salafi. Despite con - did he hang himself? Dr Philips said the wellspring Prophet (SAW), were permissible. madh-hab. And that is where, demning terror, he is still consid - I am not the judge of that, was strictly Quran and Sunnah, However, breaking down Allah with respect, I’d like to differ with ered an ‘unindicted (sic) though his comments were cer - and to practise adhkar (the re - hu, to ‘hu’ as some tariqats do was Dr Philips. There is Sunnah, yes, co-conspirator’ of the 1993 World tainly intriguing. When I quizzed membrance of Allah) was permis - akin – and here the poor Hindus but there is no Prophetic madh- Trade Centre bombing, and al - him on Sufism, something he has sible. are bashed again – to sitting in a hab. 22 Muslim Views . April 2018 Living life’s lesson we should work on it once she had ‘I want to go as soon as possi - starting to engage her. She was been discharged. I had called the ble,’ she said, and then spoke of physically drained and merely specialist who was to look after her plans to perform Umrah al - asked to be medically examined. her and emphasised to him that most immediately. ‘Maybe I will ‘Yes, Alhamdulillah, we are on lifestyle changes had to be dis - not be able to go for Hajj so, at Arafah,’ she said as I was about to cussed with her. least, I will know that I was in leave. I saw her a few months after Makkah and Madinah,’ she ex - ‘Don’t worry, Hajj is Arafah. the first incident with very little plained. Every ritual from now on can ei - change in her weight. When I gen - I tried to reassure her that ther be postponed, can be tly steered the conversation to - though her obesity and medical is - deputised for you or, as a last re - wards the benefits of a balanced sues were certainly not to be sort, be paid a penalty for,’ I tried diet and exercises, she became treated lightly, she, Allah willing, to encourage her. She smiled. I saw very irritated and indicated that certainly had a few decades still her again on Mina two days later she was trying very hard but that ahead of her on earth. and she was feeling much better. all her efforts were fruitless. They were indeed blessed. Her Her Hajj was complete. I steered the debate towards parents also performed the minor Now, in the present, back in managing her medical conditions pilgrimage and, a year later, they Cape Town, she again presented and tried to incorporate a weight received the good news that they, with a severe leg infection. ‘You loss programme into its manage - as a family, would embark on the are going to the emergency unit to ment. Years later, however, we ultimate journey in the life of a be admitted,’ I said. were not much further on the road Muslim. She did not object nor question to success, which frustrated her Her mother had severe asthma, anything. ‘I am not well, I don’t immensely. and she had limited mobility. Both think I am going to make it,’ she I saw her on and off for a num - of them required wheelchair assis - softly said. ber of years for mostly acute, self- tance to some extent. Her father ‘Don’t worry, it is exactly the limiting conditions, such as chest was also not in the best of health. same problem you had a long time infections and, unfortunately, she They were, however, determined ago. We know what it is and how never really presented often to make the best of the journey. to treat it,’ I replied. She merely enough for us to actively manage She was a very astute lady smiled. I called her two days later her. when it came to contractual issues in hospital. The attending nurse We spoke of religion now and with her operator and would ap - told me that she was recovering. then but she never really showed a proach them if their promises that When I spoke to her, however, great interest in the topic. She was were supposed to benefit her par - she sounded very negative. ‘The aware that I accompanied pilgrims ents were not met. Her and her same excellent specialist who on Hajj annually but only referred mother’s relative immobility and treated you all those years ago is to it when she indicated at a visit wheelchair dependence meant that looking after you, so please do not that she had been at our practice they could not always achieve worry,’ I pleaded with her. but ‘Doc, as usual, ran away to what their hearts deeply desired, ‘We cannot enforce our wishes Makkah.’ such as additional tawaafs. on patients but, with your permis - This changed about three years But the ultimate aim was sion and co-operation, I am going ago when she indicated an interest Arafah. And, with Allah’s bless - to dictate your life for you once in performing Hajj. By then, she ings, they were all present at the you are discharged from hospital. was in her early forties. ‘I want to time of Wuqoof to beseech their This will be until you are med - It was evident that she was quite ill. I saw her in this state take my parents for Hajj,’ she said, Creator to forgive them of all their ically and physically well or until before, more than a decade ago, writes DR SALIM PARKER. out of the blue, one day. They had trespassings and bless them to be you are tired of me,’ I said. put their names on the waiting list. as sinless as new-born babies. ‘Just say you want me to lose THE doors of our medical pital, whether there were other ‘I don’t know how long I am going Her mother took ill just before weight, Doc, ’she replied. practice in Cape Town were treatment options, and how long to live,’ she added, as a matter of we had to leave Arafah and I duly ‘Insha Allah, we’ll talk when I already closed when she arrived. it would take to recover. She was explanation. attended to her. The daughter also see you, which is going to be In fact, we were exiting the a feisty bundle of energy and it ‘You are going to live long and indicated that she was not feeling soon,’ I concluded. premises when her father pulled had taken a while for me to con - you are definitely going to go on well. It was stiflingly hot and It was indeed soon but not how up. vince her to be admitted to the the greatest journey ever!’ I reas - humid, and water was running out I had anticipated. She had deteri - ‘She is not well,’ he said. It was closest hospital as soon as possi - sured her. ‘In fact, I can tell you in the camp. orated suddenly, and when I saw evident that she was quite ill. I saw ble. I had mentioned that her obe - now that we are going to meet on ‘So we meet on Arafah; did I her, it was at her janazah a few her in this state before, more than sity was also problematic and that Arafah; mark my word,’ I said. not tell you we would?’ I tried days later. a decade ago. Shivering from the rigours of an infection somewhere in her body, she softly greeted. ‘I am sorry to come so late but I suddenly got ill. I don’t know why I am shaking so much,’ she said. This was about two months after we had all returned from Hajj, and she, together with her parents and her uncle, were of those who had answered the invi - tation extended by Prophet Ibrahim (AS) thousands of years ago. We accompanied her into my room, where her demeanour was remarkably subdued. ‘Don’t worry, I have a good idea as to what is wrong. I am pretty certain that we will sort you out soon, like we always do,’ I said, trying to re - assure her. I thought of the first time I saw her for exactly the same problem many, many years prior to this incident. She was morbidly obese then, as she still was now. She then had the same issue and, after a thor - ough examination, it was clear that she had quite a bad infection in one of her legs. This had led to a raging fever and distinctly un - well feeling. At the first incident, she had a discussion about the infection, why I wanted to admit her to hos -

For the pilgrim, burial in Jannatul Baqi is considered an honour but for those who return home and pass away, we pray that Allah SWT will raise them in the company of our beloved Prophet (SAW). Photo DR SALIM PARKER

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- ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE - Zakaah in the market place

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Government will It’s not that the core business of never be able to do everything on Sanzaf – poverty relief, empower - Skills and Vocational Training: Sanzaf regularly hosts wellness programmes teachers, accountants and lawyers its own, and that’s where we as ment and education – has aimed at ensuring that the elderly receive basic medical testing, are kept in - – hence the encouraging growth of civil society have to step in. formed on issues such as medication and receive a bit of pampering. Pictured zakaah funds in recent years. changed, it’s just that the donors here are some of the attendees from the CBD/ Woodstock area receiving their And it is to hope that our team have. Four decades of service free blood-sugar testing at a Sanzaf wellness programme held in Salt River, on That young people in South has turned thematically. To this means that there have been gener - March 28, 2018. 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A small core team of a PR ally for all to see, doubly ensures proper marketing. It is not for me to talk about the clients have gained extra import in practitioner, a communications of - this. This involves a digital shadow, dynamics of Sanzaf’s new cam - a society facing many socio-eco - ficer, a graphic artist and a web ex - But while one’s business re - a print profile, a radio voice and a paign and re-branding but suffice nomic trials, and the youth facing pert (part time) have seen to the mains the same, as we’ve already TV image, as well as an educa - to say that hope is the most endur - massive employment and educa - face of Sanzaf, orchestrating mentioned, contexts do shift and tional presence in the mosque. ing message a relief organisation tion challenges, in spite of huge media interviews, campaigns and peoples’ environments do trans - This is where the changes come can communicate. political change since 1994. advertising that are necessary to form. In our community, we have in, subtle – yes – but absolutely Sometimes, it is not even the Old imagery, 70s style logos keep Sanzaf’s profile flying high. seen our generation of parents, critical in staying with the game. It donation that causes the smiles and ageing artwork can give the Sanzaf spends frugally on mainly artisans and shopkeepers, is my belief, and that of others, but the mere fact that the person impression – and in the NGO sec - admin costs, which under the work hard to put their children that we have not yet reached the suffering knows that someone tor first impressions do really watchful eye of National Chair - through university. ceiling in terms of zakaah in this else, in an uncaring world, has count – that an organisation has person Shauket Fakie, remain an They have entered the middle country. The potential our com - taken the trouble to care about not marched with the times. In extremely low-cost element in class as doctors, dentists, school - munity has in its hands not only to them. Muslim Views . April 2018 25 Africa Muslims Agency launches Quench SA project harvesting system, pump kits, AMINA WAGGIE pipes, taps, supply of 60 000 litres AFRICA Muslim Agency (AMA) of water (over a period of six officially launched their water months), and full installation in se - relief project ‘Quench SA’ at cure locations. Academia Library and Resource The installation has already Centre, in Lansdowne, on begun and is expected to be com - Tuesday, April 10, 2018. pleted by the end of April, 2018, The relief, humanitarian and when the first volume of water, empowerment organisation’s pumped from a fresh source, will Quench SA project is aimed at be delivered to the water tanks, bringing water relief to thousands twice a month. of South Africans who are facing Phase 1 of the Quench SA proj - water shortages due to the devas - ect, which is currently in process, tating drought that is gripping involves installing the tanks and Cape Town. pumps in the identified areas. AMA has always been involved Phase 2 involves the installation of in improving the ways in which a rain harvesting system to catch people from impoverished areas the rain expected during the win - can access water. ter period, and that will run into They have dug more than the tanks. 20 000 water wells and boreholes ‘We decided to bring the project throughout Africa, constructed to the communities where they more than three water dams in Africa Muslim Agency officially launched their water relief project ‘Quench SA’ at Academia Library on Tuesday, April 10, will physically take care of the drought-stricken areas and con - 2018. The Ramadan For All expo presented by Spice Mecca was also launched at the event. Pictured (from left to right) are tanks, they will manage it and en - Farid Sayed, editor of Muslim Views; Shabodien Roomanay, of Muslim Views; Farah Sibda, AMA Marketing Cape Town; structed over 35 boreholes to ac - Shaikh Ebrahim Gabriels, Muslim Judicial Council; Idrissa Ebrahim, AMA Fundraising Department Cape Town; Shreef Abass, sure that the most marginalised in cess clean water in CEO of Spice Mecca; Shaikh Muhammad Moerat, imam of Zeenatul Islam Mosque, Cape Town; Shaikh Ighsaan Taliep, their communities will receive KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Free principal of International Peace College South Africa (Ipsa); and Dr Elias Parker, chairman of Al-Ikhlaas Academia Library water,’ said Ebrahim. State and the Western Cape. and Resource Centre. Photo SHARAFAT JAFFER AMA has been working on this Their latest project, Quench stream Primary School, in Manen - partment of the AMA Cape Town per tank per area, for six months, project for months and resolved to SA, is a long-term tank solution, berg; Al Hidayah School/ Masjid, office. altogether amounting to 600 000 take it to completion, despite Day which includes the provision of in Kraaifontein; the community The water tanks will be filled litres of water. Zero having been pushed back to water for general use and a rain centre/ masjid in Mfuleni; St Si - twice a month, which will amount In addition to the tanks being 2019 and no longer being an im - harvesting system. mons Church, in Hout Bay; Delft to 10 000 litres of water a month, filled, a group of volunteers will mediate threat to the people of Each tank can hold up to 5 000 Commmunity Centre; Mustadafin deliver 50 000 litres of bottled Cape Town. litres of water, and is installed with Community Centre, in Khayelit - water to the identified sites, for ‘Whether Day Zero happens or a pump and a tap. sha; Fatima Tu Zahra Ladies They have dug more those who are unable to fetch not, that is not a relevant issue for AMA identified ten sites in School, in Philippi, and Masjid water from the water tanks, those AMA and in no way does it affect Cape Town where they will be in - Nur, in Parkwood Estate. who are physically challenged and our plans to install the water tanks stalling the water tanks. ‘The biggest challenge was to than 20 000 water the elderly, thus ensuring that as poor access to water has always The sites that have been in - identify which areas were the most everyone within those communi - been a major issue in the impover - spected and prepared for installa - needy because every area seemed wells and boreholes ties will receive drinking water. ished areas in Cape Town, and tion are: Islamic Primary School, to be needy but not every area fit - The cost per project amounts to that is what we are hoping to in Belhar; Sea View Primary ted the criteria,’ said Idrissa throughout Africa... R40 000, which includes a 5 000 change through our Quench SA School, in Mitchells Plain; Silver - Ebrahim, from the fundraising de - litre water tank with a rainwater project,’ said Ebrahim.

GOOLAM HOOSEN MOOSA (MARCH 15, 1933 – MARCH 1, 2018) A lifetime of service and sacrifice would appear stern and strict but He was also an active member PROFESSOR ALI MOOSA inwardly, he was a soft, gentle and of the Muslim Assembly during its AL Marhoom Goolam Hoosen kind-hearted soul. formative years. Moosa passed away peacefully His concern for education was The one defining trait of his on Thursday, March 1, 2018, at also translated into action in the character was his consistent spiri - the age of 84 years. community. During his forays into tuality and connection to Allah. He died the way he lived, the townships to make ends meet, He was a regular musallee at fiercely independent. Minutes be - he observed that many of the Habibia Masjid and would sit for fore his death, he was conversing Muslim families and their children itikaaf without fail until his phys - with his daughter before surren - were not able to read the Holy ical impediments made it difficult dering his ruh. May Allah have Quran. He took it upon himself to for him to do so. He would get up mercy on his soul and grant him a go there on weekends and teach every night without fail at 3:30am high place in Jannah, Insha Allah, them how to read Quran. for Tahhajud Salaah, stay in dhikr ameen. Our sister Fatima recalls that till ishraq, and retire for a morning This independence manifested when his second wife Hajera nap. This was a routine he strictly in many ways. True to the passed away eight years ago, bus - adhered to in the latter part of his Prophetic tradition, he would loads of residents came on the day life. May Allah reward him abun - mend his own shoes, repair his of the janazah to pay their respects dantly, Insha Allah, ameen. own watches, make his own bur - to my brother. At the farewell retirement cere - glar bars and owner-built his He completed an Arabic course mony of our late brother, Judge house. at the Institute of Islamic Sharia Essa Moosa, Essa honoured Goolam was born in Muir Studies, in Heideveld, under the Goolam. ‘He is the one with the Street, District Six, two doors tutelage of Shaikh Abdul Kariem long beard, and while we were in away from Zeenatul Islam Toffar, and later taught Arabic to the trenches fighting the apartheid Mosque. He would return to the the adult students in the evenings regime, he was praying for our same mosque many years later to at the institute. He was a founder safety and for the end of play a pivotal role as secretary of member of Habibia Junior apartheid. He is in fact very spiri - its management committee for Goolam Hoosen Moosa was always concerned about learning. He taught people Madressa and served as the secre - tual. I want to convey my sincere to read Quran in the townships and was a founder member of Habibia Junior close to 50 years. Madressa. Photo SUPPLIED tary of its management board for appreciation to him for giving up After matriculating in 1951, he His wife, Miriam, passed away was afraid of the dogs! several years. Hajera joined the his career so that I could be where enrolled for a BSc at University of when the children were still very He sold socks to nurses, col - madrasah as one of its first teach - I am today.’ I and the rest of the Cape Town. He successfully com - young and it fell on Goolam to lected debts for a furniture com - ers and was later promoted to family echo those sentiments. pleted the first year but had to raise them with the help of our pany and still had time to become deputy principal. Together they Ya Allah, envelop our brother, withdraw because of financial mother Bibi and sister Fatima. He a freelance photographer. nurtured and guided the institu - father and grandfather with Thy constraints. He found employment later met and married his second Education was very important tion to become what it is today. infinite mercy, pardon him his with a civil engineering company, wife, Hajera, and together they to him. His children are all UCT At his janazah, Imam Goolam shortcomings and widen his qabr where he became their lead soils raised their children with utmost graduates. He later completed his Hoosain Parker had this to say: to be a garden from amongst the engineer and stayed with the com - love, dedication and commitment. civil engineering training at Cape ‘Goolam was a founder member gardens of jannah, and resurrect pany until his retirement. I remember him filling bottles Technikon and was in the same of the Habibia Junior Madressa him in the company of Nabi The early years of his life were with herbal medicines, coconut oil class as his youngest son, Faisel, and as long as it continues to grad - Muhammad (SAW), the martyrs difficult. He endured many hard - and castor oil, and selling them in who fondly recalls how they were uate its learners he will continue to and the righteous, ameen, ya Rabb ships and made many sacrifices. the townships. He would take all overawed by his presence not reap its rewards. He was a humble Al Alameen. He gave up his promising univer - with him in his old Morris Minor just because of his age but because man and whenever circumstances He is survived by his two sib - sity career in engineering to work my sister’s handyman, affection - he was the brightest student in the prevented me from leading the Asr lings, five children and many to support our family and, later, ately known as ‘Broetjie’, not be - class. Salaah, I would call on Goolam grand- and great-grandchildren. after he married, his own family as cause he was afraid to go into the As the eldest of the family, we Bhai to stand in for me. He would May Allah put sabr in their hearts, well. townships alone but because he all deferred to him. Outwardly, he do so without fail.’ Insha Allah. 26 Muslim Views . April 2018

Write to: [email protected] Letters to the Editor ity)? Isn’t that the key of each and nialism at all costs. Islam study deeper Africa with the code for the public good of the in - Muslims in the every deed done by a Muslim? He intermittently says, ‘De - roles of Umar Mukhtar, Uthman dividual, society and in public af - Nevertheless, Allah in the holy colonisation is always a violent Dan Fodio, the African Sufi or - fairs. ‘suburbs’ must Quran is warning and advising us phenomenon, and without a vio - ders, Malik Bennabi, the early This will enhance our struggles not to judge one another. In Surah lent struggle committed by the philosophers, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn to set records straight, free the not judge African Alhujuraat, Chapter 49, verse 11, people and organised by the lead - Batuta and other scholars, and land and challenge the forces of ‘O! You who believe, do not mock ers, the new nation is nothing but leaders outside the scope of the capitalist accumulation and self- Muslims or undermine other people, per - a fancy dress parade and a blare of book. interest. SITTING at home after attending haps those whom you are mocking trumpets ... a few reforms at the Decolonisation is ours to wage Our history in Africa is replete Jumuah Salaah on February 16, I might be better than you. The top, a flag waving. in Islam’s concepts of people, com - with examples of an Afrikan hu - quickly decided to survey the same applies to women; they ‘Also, agents of government munities and its ummatic-human - manism, the culture of ubuntu Muslim Views which I picked up mustn’t mock other women, per - speak the language of pure force ... ist theory and practice, an here with the self-same elsewhere, from the Gugulethu Mosque haps those who are being mocked (they) do not lighten the oppres - inclusiveness for the well-being of the heritage of appreciating peo - (NY 6). might be better than them.’ sion, nor seek to hide the domina - the global society. ples’ being in dealing collectively However, before I finished ful - In the hadith narrated by Abu tion but maintain the status quo Further exploration, including with problems, a democratic prac - filling the above-mentioned objec - Hurairah, Prophet Muhammad directly by means of rifle butts and the Timbuktu manuscripts of tice, so to say, are some of the tive, I had to halt on the following (SAW) said, ‘A Muslim is a napalm.’ Ahmed Baba et al, scholars in powerful examples. story headlined, ‘African Muslims brother to another Muslim; do not However, Fanon ends the book South Africa/ Azania and the Cape A better world is possible so can do more than call to prayer’. oppress and undermine one an - by pleading for non-violence and of Shaikh Yusuf and others that that we live in peace and in har - Spontaneously, the interest to other. Taqwa (Allah-conscious - a revolutionary humanism encom - deal with anti-colonial political is - mony with nature as one people, read the entire story crept in my ness) is here [pointing to his chest passing all people, and says, ‘This sues and their struggles, both in an ummah and one humanity. This mind so that I can be informed, at three times, meaning inside the huge task which consists of rein - their respective homelands and in is one of the uses of Nafi’s book the same time educated about the heart]. Thus, do not judge.’ troducing mankind into the world, sub-Saharan Africa, will be valu - and will go a long way if one is to contents. Hashim Makawa the whole of mankind, will be car - able in the challenge for social jus - induce and draw its lessons. Imam Yaseen Katona of Drift - Member of Gugulethu Muslim ried out with the indispensable tice. Y Cajee sand, Mfuleni, expressed his con - Jamaat help of the European people.’ The terms ‘Islamists’ and ‘polit - Lenasia, Gauteng cern about the attitude displayed Gugulethu Islamic Centre Fanon stood in awe of the Al - ical Islam’ refer in this instance to by Muslims in the suburbs to - gerian struggle waged mainly by those seeking the reform and revi - wards African Muslims. the rural and the hills inhabited talisation, not of the predatory Women should I quote, ‘Muslims in the sub - Take lessons peasant-poor, and though he is Westernisation but of an Islam urbs tend to assume that African silent of their Islam and its role in with a political Islamic theory and list needs to Muslims exploit Islam to beg and from Nafi’s book his works, Fanon became part of praxis of our decolonisation revolt to enrich themselves.’ ON a critique of the review of the people, edited the newspaper, and work. access mosques Indeed, it didn’t come as a sur - Basheer M Nafi’s book, The Al Moujahid, with his essays col - Of our current scholarship, ONE of the ways that Muslim prise for me to come across and Islamists: A Contextual History lected in the book Towards an ulama, leaders and forebears, women can claim and entrench absorb these assumptions. In fact, of Political Islam , that appeared African Revolution. there is much written and done in their rights in South Africa is to it has been an ongoing perception on page 26 of the February 2018 His writings addressed his audi - the archives and our memories. get the local municipalities to by Muslims in the suburbs to label edition, much comment on its ence in Marxist terms and existen - Fronting with civil society as a pass by-laws to ensure that future African Muslims as beggars. No usefulness can be made. tialist-being forms. Audiences, global force is to change the reali - masajid are built taking into wonder some Muslims in the sub - Frantz Omar Fanon, with including Edward Said, take to ties of the twenty-first century account proper needs of the urbs, when they are greeted by ‘Omar’ possibly being a term of Fanon in university courses, live world as we experience and live it women in terms of the constitu - African Muslims with the univer - endearment earned in Algeria, be - his thoughts and act his influence in this space and in this time. tion, that is, gender equality, sal greeting (Assalaam alaikum), gins the first chapter of Wretched in practising decoloniality today. Islam has to play a crucial role equity etc. they raise their eyebrows. of the Earth with a contentious Similarly, we are compelled and or be another archaic religion with Women need to develop a list of Now the question that can be militant analysis of revolutionary interested to see Basheer Nafi’s a set of practices like every other their needs for access to masajid. posed is where is the ikhlas (sincer - violence and the need to end colo - theme of Islamists and political only and not as Ad-Din, a moral Ikbal Kolia Cryptocurrency: Cape Town centre offers unique Arabic course DAR Ubaiy Centre (DUC), under the leadership of Shaikh Ismail Londt, recently offered a unique is this the future? interactive course in conversational Arabic. At the course, the attendees were trained BASHEER MOOSAGIE to converse in the Saudi Arabian dialect, and were introduced to AT the end of the last decade, a the rich culture of the people of few people outside of the crypto- the Arabian Peninsula. communities knew what The sessions were fun and inter - cryptocurrency was but everyone active and left all in attendance else thought it was just another feeling empowered and motivated. fad that was bound to fail. The There were no grammatical rules value of one Bitcoin – the first or verb scales to learn or memo - successful cryptocurrency – cost rise. Attendees were trained to de - just a few cents so, obviously, it velop their listening and was not worth a lot. articulation skills. For this reason, it was ignored One of the aims of the course by the masses; after all, there were was to empower the Umrah and far more profitable investments Hajj travellers with the skills to en - one could make. As for me, I really gage the Arab nationals and emi - only discovered this odd, new phe - grants without the need for nomenon during late spring of interpreters. Shaikh Muhammad Qosiem Gabriels facilitating a session in the conversational 2017, and was immediately over - There is currently no other Arabic course, offered by Dar Ubaiy Centre, which uses the Saudi Arabian dialect. whelmed by dozens of technical course of this nature available in Photo IDREES LONDT terms. Cape Town. All current conversa - Those who invested in the new Basheer Moosagie is a business tional Arabic courses focus on the digital currency either believed in development analyst. He obtained his formal or eloquent Arabic known the system proposed by its MBA from University of Stellenbosch Business School where he as Fus-haa, a type of Arabic spo - founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, or focused his studies around Islamic fi - ken only by scholars in certain cir - they simply wanted to see how it nance. 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THE following are some of the dhikrs made by the Ibaad-ur-Ragmaan Qadiri Jamaa’ah International Women’s Day for 2018. The rest of their programmes will follow. The programme also gave guidelines to • April 7, 2018. Asr until Maghrib SHABIER NHLEKO developing Muslim social groups in town - Habibia Soofi Masjid THE Southern Africa Dawah Network ships and building social cohesion within Duine Road (SADN) hosted a women’s development communities. Rylands. programme, from March 16 to 18, to ‘We humbly request SADN to plan Contact: Imam Goolam 021 638 2130 honour International Women’s Day. monthly weekend programmes of this na - • April 14, 2018. Maghrib until Esha at the Qabr of Abd Al-Latif, and after Esha in the The programme was held at the M A ture to nurture our Islamic growth, spiritu - Habibia Masjid. Motala Islamic Centre, in Wyebank, ally and otherwise,’ commented Mama Habibia Soofi Masjid KwaZulu-Natal. Zahira, a Wyebank resident who stressed Duine Road Coordinated by Fathima Mnxulwa, head the importance of such programmes to be Rylands. of the Women’s Development Department conducted for women in townships who, Contact: Imam Goolam 021 638 2130 at SADN, the programme was attended by she believes, seem to have been forgotten or 15 women, who ranged from young to neglected. • April 21, 2018. Asr until Maghrib older women from Amouti, Umthwalume, The SADN has, in the pipeline, plans to Masjidul Al Qubaa Wyebank and Durban Central, in develop the programme to reach other Cnr Ponderosa Way & Sylvaner Rd KwaZulu-Natal. women in different areas across KwaZulu- Northpine The weekend programme focused on key Natal. Contact: Hajji Magmoed Sedick 021 982 3359/ 083 482 6992 areas of development that particularly affect This, according to the SADN, will unite • April 28, 2018. Evening women in emerging Muslim communities. and create a strong community base for Masjid-us-Salaam It addressed the challenge of embracing Muslim women to be able to tackle chal - St Athens Road an Islamic lifestyle in the townships as well lenges of all kinds with a united front. Athlone as preserving an Islamic identity in non-Is - The next programme is planned for later Contact: Moulana Abduraghmaan Hendricks 021 696 7737/ 083 940 4564 lamic environments. this month (April). • May 5, 2018. Evening Masjid-ur-Rasheed Military Road Coniston Park Steenberg Contact: Hajji Mogammad Ganief Harris 021 701 1689/ 083 208 2836 • May 12, 2018. Afternoon Masjidul Ghiedma-tiel-Islamia Taronga Road Rondebosch Contact: Hajji Mogamat Noor Fakier 021 697 2537/ 082 927 8102 We thank the dhikr jamaah for kindly sharing the information. If your jamaah has a reg - ular dhikr programme which you wish to publish in Muslim Views , please email the details A women’s development to: [email protected] or contact Shireen Abrahams on 021 696 5404. programme to honour International Women’s Day was hosted by the Southern Africa Dawah Network at the M A Motala Islamic Centre, in Wyebank, KwaZulu-Natal. Photo SUPPLIED

The Ibaad-u-Ragmaan Qadiri Jamaa’ah was at Habibia Soofie Masjid, in Rylands Estate, Cape Town, when this photograph was taken in December 1996. The late Imam Abdul Latief Parker – one of the longest serving imams at the masjid, and popularly known as Imam Baboo – is seated in the third row from the back (in a dark thoub). Flanking him are Moulana Mu’aath Manie (left, in a brown thoub) and Shaikh Mogammad Riefaard Manie (right, in a black waistcoat). Photo SUPPLIED Workshop on how to cope with diabetes during Ramadaan to do it safely,’ explains Dr Aneesa Sheik, AMINA WAGGIE medical director of Lilly South Africa. LILLY South Africa, a global healthcare Providing healthcare professionals with leader, will be hosting an event to explain the right tools and resources, including time and inform people about the Lilly Diabetes and personnel, to educate patients and en - Conversation Map tool and its many courage them to discuss a treatment plan for benefits, at Masjid-ul Quds, on April 17, fasting during Ramadaan has been a key 2018, at 10am. focus area for Lilly. The tool was designed for managing dia - ‘If you have type 1 diabetes, your doctor betes during Ramadaan, and will be ex - will want to ensure that the blood sugar is plained by Dr S Parker and Dr J Akoojee. regularly monitored to prevent any health The tool, created by Healthy Interactions, risks, and may even need to adjust insulin is used in more than forty countries world - doses according to your food intake and ac - wide and has been translated into more than tivity. thirty languages. It helps doctors and nurses ‘Fasting with type 2 diabetes can also be guide their patients on how to manage dia - risky, especially if you have poorly con - betes during Ramadaan. trolled diabetes. It is important to remember  It also helps in understanding myths and that your prescribed medication may also in - facts about diabetes, the major complica - fluence your ability to fast. Muslims with di - tions to watch out for during fasting and the abetes who wish to fast must plan diligently important habits to maintain while fasting. and well in advance for a safe and healthy ‘Fasting presents significant challenges for Ramadaan,’ explains Dr Sheik. people living with diabetes in terms of man - Those who are living with diabetes or aging blood sugar levels, which is why it is have a loved one who is, and would like to essential to consult with their doctor well in learn more about the Diabetes Conversation advance of the holy month of Ramadaan to Map tool should be at Masjidul Quds, in find out if they can fast and if so, plan a way Gatesville, on April 17, at 10am. 28 Muslim Views . April 2018

Health File Influenza: what lies ahead? children were orphaned in our the world. By July 2009, virtually DR SALIM PARKER country. all countries had reported cases. RAMADAAN is a time when we It was always considered that Computer modelling has shown want to be at our physical and most pandemics would originate that stopping the spread would mental peak. In South Africa, the from Asia. Most of the earth’s land have been near impossible. If, for far more influenza viruses to swine month of fasting will fall in the mass and population are found example, travel out of Mexico had than swine transmit to humans. period approaching winter, when there, and close interaction between been curtailed by 40 per cent, the Human-to-swine transmission is the incapacitating influenza season humans and animals most com - rate of the spread of swine flu actually the key to the evolution of starts peaking. monly occurs there. would have been delayed by only influenza diversity in swine and, in We need to start arming our - The rationale was that one of two days. effect, humans sow the seeds of fu - selves against influenza as it can se - these influenza viruses would mu - Had the traffic out of Mexico ture pandemics by infecting swine. verely impact our ability to derive tate into a virulent form and start been decreased by 90 per cent, the Influenza is often considered a the optimum benefit of this holy The influenza virus mutates rapidly, the next human influenza pandemic rate would have slowed by only trivial disease but the South African month. managing to outfox and outwit us by from China or one of its neigh - two weeks! death statistics tell a different, hor - This disease knows no interna - undergoing subtle changes that bours. We are discovering more and rifying story. counter medical science’s best tional boundaries and kills more attempts to curb its rampant spread. The 1957 pandemic spread from more about this fascinating virus. A Tuberculosis is still the number people than war or terrorism. Illustration SAAID RAHBEENI mainland China and spread word - type called H11N2 was discovered one killer in our country. Influenza There were more than 2,8 mil - Despite all our technological ad - wide within six months. The 1968 in Antarctica, in 2014. What was and pneumonia, which is grouped lion new cases of it in Japan in the vancements and surveillance abili - one started in Hong Kong and rap - fascinating about this virus was as one entity for death statistics first week of February 2018. ties, humankind has not been able idly spread. that it contained genetic material purposes, has been the second lead - The Centre for Disease Control to accurately predict a single, severe Avian influenza, more com - from strains found in the northern ing cause of death from 2009 till (CDC) reported 4 000 deaths pandemic. This year is a stark re - monly known as bird flu, has been and southern hemispheres. 2013. weekly due to it and its complica - minder that 100 years ago, the dev - known to affect wild birds and It has been postulated that mi - The introduction of a very effec - tions in the USA. astation of the 1918 Spanish Flu poultry on the Chinese mainland. gratory birds, such as the giant pe - tive vaccine against pneumonia has In Hong Kong, schools were was evident worldwide. These viruses, such as H5N1, occa - tral, flies thousands of kilometres led to influenza/ pneumonia falling shut early for the Chinese new year It is conservatively estimated sionally crossed the species barrier from Antarctica to Central America to the sixth leading cause of death (February 16, 2018) after an out - that more than 50 million humans and infected humans. When this and acquires different influenza by 2015. break claimed over 120 lives. lost their lives due to the disease, happened, H5N1 had a 50 per cent strains there and then takes it back Vaccination is going to be key in This year, it is reported to be the with about 10 million fatalities in mortality in humans. to the frozen wastelands where the the fight against this avoidable dis - worst outbreak since 2010, with India. Again, the virus was able to out - different viruses mutate and ex - ease. mostly children and the elderly af - South Africa was the fifth most manoeuvre the unsuspecting change genetic material. Dr Salim Parker, a GP and IMA fected. No, we are not talking of a severely affected country, with close human race. The H1N1 pandemic The potential exists that one of member, is Past President of South frightening new disease. to 500 000 deaths. Two waves were of 2009 started in Mexico, in about these mutated strains may be ex - African Society of Travel Medicine In fact, we are talking of the wily recorded in our country, starting March, and very rapidly spread tremely infective in humans and, if (SASTM). He is the co-director of foe that annually, somehow, man - from Cape Town and Durban. The along the international travel it is somehow carried to large set - the Cape Town GeoSentinel site, ages to outfox and outwit us by un - well-developed rail and sea trans - routes. tlements, may initiate the next pan - which is an international dergoing subtle changes that port system at that time facilitated Since the vast majority of flights demic. collaboration monitoring counter medical science’s best at - the spread of the pandemic. departing Mexico flew to North The swine flu pandemic also afflictions in international tempts to curb its rampant spread. Since the disease primarily af - America and Europe, the disease, shed some important light on ani - travellers. He may be contacted at We are talking about the in - fected young adults aged between called swine flu, first manifested mal-human virus transmission. It is [email protected] or fluenza virus. 18 and 40, a staggering 900 000 there before spreading to the rest of now known that humans transmit www.hajjdoctor.co.za Muslim Views . April 2018 29

Prophylaxis of TB Prophylaxis is the treatment given to prevent a disease from oc - curring. We can prevent the spread Tuberculosis in children of TB to children and those at high risk of getting the disease by ad - l a fever for at least two weeks, collected and tested for TB. ministering a daily dose of anti-tu - DR MICHELLE ROOS for which no common cause Bigger children and teenagers berculous medication. Prophylaxis IN 1882, the German physician, could be found; are usually able to cough effec - with Isoniazid is one of the most Dr Robert Koch, discovered that l weight loss or failure to gain tively but may struggle to provide under-utilised tools in the fight tuberculosis (TB) is caused by weight appropriately; enough sputum for the test. against TB. Only 13 per cent of el - slow growing bacteria inside the l a history of coming into close They can be assisted with a igible children received preventa - human body. contact with a person who has nebulisation or mist of salt water tive treatment in 2016. He announced his findings on suspected or proven TB, espe - and medication to open up the All children under the age of March 24 that year, forever chang - cially if it is a household con - lungs. five years, and all HIV infected ing the course of history, and tact. These samples are sent off to children, irrespective of their age, opening the door to further re - experienced technicians in the lab - Making the diagnosis of TB should receive preventative treat - search about its diagnosis and oratory where various tests are ment if they were in close contact treatment. It is often difficult to confirm performed: detection of the DNA with someone who has TB. World TB Day is commemo - the presence of TB in children with of the bacteria, examination of the rated every year on March 24 to a laboratory test only, and health sample under a microscope and al - The future raise awareness about the health, care workers rely on the history lowing the bacteria to multiply in Although TB is still a very social and economic effects of this provided by caretakers as well as a culture medium to test its type prevalent and debilitating disease devastating disease. the clinical signs the child presents and sensitivity to treatment. in South Africa, health and politi - The theme this year, ‘Wanted: with to make the diagnosis. cal leaders worldwide have taken leaders for a TB-free world’, seeks In children who have been ex - TB treatment hands to work tirelessly in achiev - to engage not only leaders in the posed to TB from a relative or TB is a treatable and curable ing the goal of ending the TB epi - political and health sectors but close contact, a Tuberculin skin disease but needs a combination of demic by 2030. also emphasises the role to be test (TST) is usually performed as medication that is taken regularly, Between 2000 and 2016, an es - played by community leaders, and one of the first line investigations. for a long period of time, to erad - timated 53 million lives were all those infected and affected by A tiny amount of fluid, called Tu - icate the bacteria completely. We saved through TB diagnosis and TB. All of us, no matter how in - berculin, is injected just under - need to involve the whole family treatment. In September 2018, substantial we think our contribu - Dr Michelle Roos. Photo SUPPLIED neath the skin of the forearm. when a child in the household is heads of state will come from all tion may be, have a commitment world, and with India, Indonesia, It contains inactive TB bacteria diagnosed with TB. over the world to participate in the to ending the TB epidemic. China, the Philippines, Pakistan and will swell up (much like an in - The first step of treatment is to first ever United Nations general sect bite) within 48 to 72 hours if find out who the source case of TB assembly high-level meeting on TB The cause and spread of TB and Nigeria, account for almost 70 per cent of TB globally. In someone has been exposed or in - is. All household contacts and fre - in New York. They will again Tuberculosis is caused by slow- 2016, an estimated one million fected with TB. quent visitors with symptoms need commit to end TB on all levels and growing bacteria called Mycobac - children in the world became ill A chest X-ray is a very useful to undergo testing at a local clinic to be leaders for a TB-free world. terium tuberculosis. In most cases with TB, and 250 000 died due to tool for diagnosing TB and can or hospital. Without tracing the Do your part by raising aware - it only affects the lungs but virtu - the disease. show enlarged glands in the chest source of TB, we will never be able ness in your community, urging ally any site in the body may be in - or infected lung tissue. to stop its spread. those who are ill to get tested and volved. TB is spread from person Symptoms of TB in children The TB bacteria live and multi - Active TB is treated with a treated, and protecting your chil - to person by inhaling little Children most commonly pres - ply inside the lungs and can often combination of four anti-micro - dren from TB. You too can be a droplets that contain the bacteria, ent with TB affecting the lungs be detected in the sputum of a per - bial drugs for at least six months. leader for a TB-free world. usually when someone with active (pulmonary TB). The most com - son with active disease. In young Complicated TB or TB outside the Dr Michelle Roos [MB.ChB TB sneezes, coughs or spits. mon symptoms are: children, who tend to swallow lungs may need more drugs and (Pret), MMed (Stell), FCPaed South Africa is one of the high - l a chronic unremitting cough for their sputum rather than cough it will require a longer course of (SA)], is a paediatrician at est TB burden countries in the more than two weeks; out, a specimen of stomach fluid is treatment. Melomed Tokai. 30 Muslim Views . April 2018

Discussions with Dangor Arab nations’ relations with Israel the then Prime Minister – rejected the United Arab Emirates, among it. Israeli officials objected to as - others. Muslim countries had no diplomatic or economic ties with pects of the plan, in particular the The oppression of Palestinians, Israel, and supported all UN resolutions against the country, right of refugees to return to their denial of their fundamental human writes EMERITUS PROFESSOR SULEMAN DANGOR. homeland. rights and illegal occupation of In 2017, Saudi Arabia proposed their land are simply ignored by a 1967 Arab-Israeli war, trusteeship tion of the conflict, seriously com - a Road Map for establishing diplo - number of Arab countries. Yet, of the Dome of the Rock remained promised the Palestinian position. matic ties with Israel. This paved there are countless UN resolutions in the hands of the Jerusalem Is - Israel continued to defy the in - the way for Crown Prince Muham - declaring the occupation of the lamic Waqf. ternational community by refusing mad ibn Salman’s recent clandestine West Bank and Jerusalem illegal. Israel had also captured the Sinai to implement any of the UN resolu - visit to Tel Aviv. Even our own country, South from Egypt, and the Golan Heights tions and, instead, continued to oc - He received religious sanction Africa, is considering downgrading from Syria. cupy more and more Palestinian from the Grand Mufti of Saudi diplomatic status. Muslim countries had no diplo - land. Arabia, Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, who The Boycott Divestment and SOUTH Africa has proposed matic or economic ties with Israel, Palestinian resistance was met issued a ruling saying that fighting Sanctions (BDS) movement is a downgrading its relations with and supported all UN resolutions with brutal force and the everyday against Israel was inappropriate global movement that demands Israel. In this article, we will focus against the country. This continued life of the Palestinians became more and that Hamas is a ‘terror organi - that Israel ends its occupation and on Arab countries’ earlier relations until Egypt signed an agreement and more intolerable, with check - sation’. colonisation of all Arab lands and with the Israeli regime and now with Israel, in 1980, after the Camp points, home demolitions and de - The relationship between Israel dismantle the Wall, recognise the with that of Netanyahu, which is David Accord. nial of freedom of movement. and the United Arab Emirates is fundamental rights of the Arab- considered by many to be the most In 1988, Jordan renounced its The Saudi-backed Arab Peace deep-rooted, focused on defence Palestinian citizens of Israel to full ‘right wing government’ in Israeli control over the West Bank, with Initiative of 2002, which was and security issues. Earlier links equality, and respect, protect and history. the exception of Christian and backed by the Arab League, out - with Qatar and Oman were jetti - promote the rights of Palestinian In 1948, troops from Egypt, Muslim sacred sites in Jerusalem, lined comprehensive steps to end soned for a variety of reasons, in - refugees to return to their homes Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and recognised the Palestine Liber - the conflict. cluding the outbreak of an intifada. and properties as stipulated in UN Yemen and Saudi Arabia fought ation Organisation (PLO) as the It called for Israeli withdrawal The current Egyptian president, Resolution 194. against the newly established state sole representative of the Palestin - from all lands occupied since 1967, Abdel Fateh Sisi, was among those The aim is for countries to iso - of Israel. Egyptian, Syrian and Jor - ian people. the establishment of a Palestinian who conspired to overthrow his late Israel diplomatically, economi - danian troops again participated in In 1994, Jordan ended its con - state with East Jerusalem as its cap - predecessor, Morsi. He has incar - cally, militarily and culturally. the Six Day War, in 1967. flict with Israel by signing the Oslo ital and a ‘fair solution’ for the cerated tens of thousands of al- There is an international boycott In the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Accord. Subsequently, it signed the Palestinian refugees. Ikhwan al-Muslimun, not only against Israel by prominent aca - the following countries were in - Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty, which In turn, Arab leaders offered to because he considers them a threat demics, sportspersons and artists. volved in providing troops, arms or normalised relations between the officially recognise Israel’s right to to his regime but – we can safely as - Several artists have cancelled their finance: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, two countries. exist and to normalise diplomatic sume – also at the behest of Israel. tours to Israel and a few have even Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Subsequently, a number of Arab ties. Palestinians, as well as some The movement is committed to spoken out against the atrocities Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. countries, including Saudi Arabia, factions in Israel rejected the plan. supporting the Palestinians. Ironi - committed against the Palestinian Jordan annexed the West Bank, Iraq and the Gulf states began deal - In 2007, the Arab League – cally, even the US has not placed the people. including Jerusalem, in the after - ing with Israel clandestinely. minus Libya – re-endorsed the Ikhwan on its terrorist list. In this context, it is bizarre that math of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Camp David Accord, and Peace Plan. Though Palestinian In the meanwhile, clandestine Arab states – in particular, Saudi Though Israel captured West later Madrid and Oslo Accords, in - President Mahmoud Abbas en - trade has been going on between Is - Arabia – would want to establish or Jerusalem from Jordan after the stead of contributing to the resolu - dorsed the plan, Ismail Haniya – rael and Saudi Arabia, Jordan and continue relations with Israel. Day of the Quran in Bredasdorp THE Bredasdorp Muslim Society (BMS), berg. in conjunction with the Muslim Judicial To facilitate this, buses will be leaving Council (MJC) and the South African from Masjidul Miftaag in Lentegeur, Quraan Union, is presenting a Mitchells Plain, and Darul Islam Mosque, pre-Ramadaan programme in the in Surrey Estate at 7am. Overberg on Sunday, April 29. The following persons can be contacted The event will be held at the masjid at 28 for more information about the programme Brand Street, Bredasdorp, and the pro - and the bus arrangements: ĻĻ’ĩ gramme commences at 11am. • Bredasdorp Mosque: Ĺ Ň Some of the leading qaris in the Western Imam Thaakier Cook 079 289 0511 or îŇļ Cape have accepted the invitation to partic - email: [email protected] P’T ļ ipate and include Shaikh Harun Moos, • Chairperson of the SA Quraan Union: õïĦ Shaikh Gaarieth Williams and Qari Ab - Hafidh Muntahaa Kenny 083 277 3216 ļĹŕ duraghmaan Sadien. • President of the MJC: ĻÇT The keynote address will be delivered by Shaikh Irfaan Abrahams 060 633 7700 ĹĻö the president of the MJC, Shaikh Irfaan (also the contact for buses departing ËvÞ Abrahams. Also present will be a delegation from Darul Islam Masjid ĮĻ from Syria. • MJC office: àTĻ“ The BMS extends an open invitation to 021 684 4600 ĹĒT all to attend its ‘day of the Quran’ pro - • For buses departing from Masjidul õŇĩ gramme, which will go a long way towards Miftaag: Ř building relationships between communities Imam Mogammad Allie Daniels in metropolitan Cape Town and the Over - 082 566 9641

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Positive and Effective Parenting sult, children do not learn from their misbehaviour and the choices they make. Those who do not develop a The circle of courage sense of independence are easily led into trouble and will blame the stead, children were taught through where. ence, self-knowledge (of strengths world for their troubles rather than FOUZIA RYKLIEF storytelling, modelling of behaviour Belonging should be woven into and weaknesses), pride and accom - look to themselves for a solution. MARY Bruce’s son was a gangster and love. everything we do. It should be part plishment, self-worth and self-es - Children with the value of inde - and was killed during 2014. Martin Brokenleg is a member of of our schools and neighbourhoods. teem, self-reliance, trust, confidence pendence may also have the values In an article in the Cape Times , the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and prac - When a child is in crisis, school poli - and honesty also develop. of self-reliance, confidence, account - dated February 26, 2018, she said, tises the culture of the Lakota peo - cies should surround young people Independence is being responsible ability and a need to contribute to ‘My son saw me every other day ple. He proposed a model of with belonging. for oneself and possessing self-disci - society. with a blue eye and a swollen lip, empowerment called the Circle of The Native American view, pline. The real tool for achieving in - Generosity, is ‘the natural human and it angered him that he couldn’t Courage along with his colleagues, which is very similar to our African dependence is discipline. Discipline need to be a good person’. The cen - do anything to help me. He wasn’t Larry Brendtro and Steve van Brock - view, is that we are related to every - teaches a person how to be respon - tral goal in Native American chil - being nurtured by either me or my ern. one we know. sible. drearing is to teach the importance ex-husband and he went out to find ‘Native Americans have a very Treating others as family create Allowing children to experience of being generous and unselfish. a connection outside of what should high regard for children,’ he says. ‘In powerful human bonds that draw natural and logical consequences Finally, the value of generosity in - have been his safe space.’ the Lakota language, the word for everyone into a network of relation - rather than punishment is the way to corporates the idea that, at an early She now mentors children at risk child means ‘standing sacred’. Chil - ships based on mutual respect. The teach a child independence. We age, children start learning about in Hanover Park. dren are treated respectfully and tribe, not the nuclear family, always want children to make the right de - giving to others with stories from The word ‘connection’ reminded there is no punishment.’ ensured the survival of the culture cisions when we aren’t looking. elders that present it as the highest me of what I have been saying for a The Circle of Courage portrays and was always there to nourish and Brokenleg says giving young peo - level of integrity. long time. A real connection and a the four developmental needs of come to the aid of the next genera - ple real choices (within limits) and This comes from a view that healthy attachment between parents children: belonging, mastery, inde - tion. as much power as possible nurtures things are less important than peo - and children will go a long way in pendence and generosity. The basis Mastery is the desire to accom - independence. ple and so, if giving to someone preventing behavioural problems in of this approach is that people are plish. Every person is respected for Children are encouraged to make helps the person then it was well children and ensuring their optimum not whole until they achieve those what they do. It is never competitive decisions, solve problems and show worth the loss of the material good. growth. four values. and everyone congratulates those personal responsibility. Adults Most children are naturally gen - Bruce’s commitment to help chil - If children gain a sense of belong - who achieve. model, teach values and give feed - erous. dren prompted me to share a model ing to a group, master positive skills, The child is taught to see some - back. Children are given abundant When a person has a sense of of parenting I learnt about many achieve a sense of independence and one with more skills as a model of opportunities to make choices with - generosity, values such as peacemak - years ago, called the ‘Circle of show generosity toward others then learning. One must strive for mas - out forcing them. ing, love, hope, faith, integrity, com - Courage’. they have mastered the Circle of tery for personal reasons not to be Many parents believe children passion and empathy will be visible. Jann Watlington of the Parent Courage and developed a solid foun - better than someone else. When suc - must just do as they say because ‘I A child who has a sense of belong - Centre designed a workshop based dation for future growth. cess is met, the desire to achieve is am the parent’. They do not encour - ing can say: I am loved. on this model many years ago and I The first value, belonging, is the strengthened. age children to get involved in solv - A child who has internalised gen - have used most of that content and most crucial. It is the desire to con - Mastery refers to the social, emo - ing problems and making decisions erosity can say: I have a purpose extracts from the book upon which nect with others throughout one’s tional, intellectual and academic about themselves or home life. for my life. the workshop was based. life. This is a feeling about our own competence that children and young Children are often not allowed to A child who has achieved inde - For thousands of years, American value, feeling protected and impor - people need to become capable and face the consequences of their be - pendence can say: I have the power Indian cultures nourished respectful tant within a group. If the child does responsible citizens. haviour as parents interfere and to make decisions. and courageous children without not experience a sense of belonging When one has the value of mas - want to protect their children from A child who has mastery can say: I employing punitive discipline. In - in the home then he seeks it else - tery, other values, such as persist - the pain they may endure. As a re - can succeed.

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Focus on Finance How will the increase in tions, rental and financial leases, VAT affect business? construction contracts and inter- company supplies, among others. Consult a tax practitioner for HASSEN KAJIE, CA (SA), a director of Nexia SAB&T, based the transitional rules that override in the Cape Town office, and AYSHA OSMAN, CA (SA), the normal rules. National Technical Manager for Nexia SAB&T, in the In addition to the enormous Centurion office, point to some of the implications of the amount of work to be done on increase in VAT announced in this year’s Budget Speech. systems and procedures before April 1, consideration must be THE 2018/19 Budget in Financial institutions, residen - given to the applicable VAT rate Parliament on Wednesday, tial property developers, certain for every agreement or contract February 21, 2018, announced a educational institutions and any Hassen Kajie Aysha Osman entered into from February 22. lower than predicted one per cent other exempt or partially exempt that can deal with both rates for vided by the supplier when: It is also recommended that all increase in the value-added tax businesses will experience an in - some time. Examples include: l the goods are delivered to the existing contracts that provide for (‘VAT’) rate from the current crease in their base cost as they are l credit notes issued after April 1, recipient (including physical ongoing or periodic supplies of 14 per cent to 15 per cent, with unable to claim the full amount of 2018, for supplies made at 14 and constructive delivery); goods and/or services be reviewed effect from April 1, 2018. VAT incurred on costs. per cent; l goods supplied under a rental for the implication of the VAT rate There is ongoing debate on Annual apportionment calcula - l settlement and volume dis - agreement, when the recipient change. whether the increase was a good tions will also be more complex, counts; takes possession or occupation Corporate restructuring negoti - move, the impact on the poor and particularly for those businesses l bad debts written off and re - thereof; and ations and transactions may be whether zero rating of additional that do not have a March year- covered. l goods consisting of fixed prop - particularly vulnerable to the rate items should be introduced to as - end. To complicate matters further, erty supplied by way of a sale, change where they have already sist in poverty relief. The reality is Businesses selling directly to the section 67A of the Value-Added when the transfer thereof is ef - been signed but delivery will only that businesses are now in the first end consumer will face price pres - Tax Act, 1991 (the ‘VAT Act’) fected by registration in a deeds take place after April 1, 2018, due month of the rate increase. sures to remain competitive, and it contains complex rules governing registry. to various reasons, including ob - Given the extensive systems will therefore be interesting to see the transitional period from the l Services are deemed to be per - taining relevant licences and ap - and documentation changes re - how many retailers and other sup - Budget announcement to March formed when they are actually provals. quired, this was an extremely pliers will try to absorb part of the 31, 2018. or physically carried out or per - This article is intended for short time frame in which to en - additional VAT cost to the benefit Apart from clarifying which formed. information purposes only and sure compliance by April 1. As a of their customers. rate is applicable to specific sup - In most instances, the normal should not be considered as a transaction-based tax, the effect of plies going forward from the time of supply rules in section 9 of legal document. Please note that the VAT increase reaches into When is the Budget announcement, the transi - the VAT Act apply to determine while every effort is made to every area and system in a busi - new rate applicable? tional rules address the issue of in - the time of supply for VAT ac - ensure accuracy, Nexia SAB&T ness. The new rate of 15 per cent ap - voices raised now (at 14 per cent) counting purposes, the general does not accept responsibility for Obviously, the accounts receiv - plies from April 1, of course! for supplies that will take place rule being that the supply takes any inaccuracies or errors able and payable systems and the However, tax is never that simple. after April 1, in order to avoid place at the earlier of the issue of contained herein. If you are in general ledger are key. However, Even after April 1, there are cir - charging VAT at the higher rate. an invoice or the receipt of pay - doubt about any information in the rate change will also affect cumstances where the applicable ment. this article or require any advice payroll, invoicing, pricing, bad VAT rate will still be 14 per cent, Which VAT rate to apply Notwithstanding the general on the topical matter, please do debts and many other operating resulting in additional complexi - in the transitional period rule, there are specific rules appli - not hesitate to contact any Nexia procedures. ties and the necessity for systems Goods are deemed to be pro - cable to fixed property transac - SAB&T office nationally.

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The pasta was creamy and had their signature Portuguese flavour though I did feel the chicken in this dish was a bit skimpy. He did not finish it but at least he had another meal from the left - overs. What’s nice about their menu is their large variety. The Portuguese style adding a medley of different flavours to choose from, like the Prawn Naçional – pan-fried in bay Mediterranean style and colours with modern finishes lent a sophisticated feel. leaves, garlic, cream and Por - Photo DILSHAD PARKER tuguese spices, served with white were taken. sauce on the side. A very good de - rice. I took in the feel of the place. It cision indeed, we would learn in You could also choose the was bright and airy, with a sophis - due course. Grilled Cod Fish, which consists ticated feel in spite of the plastic Our meal was served in a of a generous portion of cod fish textured tablecloths overlaying the chaffing dish, which was great be - topped with green peppers, garlic, fabric ones underneath, rather like cause the food stayed hot and it olive oil, sliced, raw onions, boiled an upmarket Ocean Basket. added a little drama to the presen - potatoes and a sprinkle of olives. There were Mediterranean tation. It did dominate the entire They are pretty expensive though, Our meal served in a chaffing dish was added drama to the presentation. touches in the décor and trendy four-seater table, though. Had we with platters on average at R300 Photo DILSHAD PARKER cladding on the walls. Stairs led been four adults instead of two to R600. langa, we headed for Gateway upstairs to which we were told and a quarter, it would have been Starters range from R59 to DILSHAD PARKER Shopping Centre to stock up on was a salaah area. very crowded. R106, and a good choice of WHEN foodies travel to Durban some essentials for our self-cater - The menu was quite large with I finally got what all the fuss is desserts at about R50 each. you’d expect them to begin their ing accommodation. an array of starters that included, about, though. It’s not a place I’d choose to go culinary experience with the type Adega Restaurant, at Gateway, in true Portuguese style, Trin - The signature flavour is deli - with small kids even though it has of cuisine that Durban is famous is halaal so we decided to have chado, Rissoles and Stuffed Cala - cious. The chicken and prawns a kiddies menu, and it’s not some - for; bunny chow, for instance. lunch there. They are known for mari. We were pretty hungry and were coated in this creamy, spicy, where you go to get great value for But when that foodie is Indian seafood and Portuguese-style cui - decided to forego the starters and lemony sauce that you just want to money. Also note that they include to begin with and does not favour sine. head straight for mains. sop up with everything. I was even a ten per cent service charge on all the famous bunny chow then you The restaurant was fairly busy Our platter for two consisted of pouring it over my rice and suck - bills. may have a bit of a stalemate. But at lunchtime. Set on an open court chicken, prawns and grilled cala - ing at prawn shells with no shame. But I can tell you this: those not to worry, Durban is not outside the mall, there were also mari served in their signature Not a drop was to be wasted, es - prawns are really worth splurging merely a cliché of bunny chow and tables outside for those wanting to sauce, with rice and chips. pecially at R430 for this combo. on. curry, we discovered a delightful enjoy the sunny Durban weather. We wanted to try the hot ver - Taufeeq’s chicken pasta, at This review is independent and variety of cuisines on our trip We were seated inside, choosing sion of the sauce but our waiter, R65, from the kiddies menu was meals were paid for. Dilshad there last month. to enjoy the aircon instead. Menus on learning that we were not lo - also quite tasty and, as expected, Parker is founder and author of As we were staying in Umh - were brought and drinks orders cals, advised us to have the hot too large a portion. www.hungryforhalaal.co.za 36 Muslim Views . April 2018

Light from the Quran What is the life of this world? you and pay you no attention. Do IBRAHIM OKSAS ‘The world is also a temporary not weary yourself for nothing! and NAZEEMA AHMED ‘The world is also a temporary INCREASINGLY in the world exhibition so look at it and take lessons. exhibition so look at it and take today, people are almost lessons. obsessively captivated by the He gives each a physical being Bediuzzaman expresses that, in tains, and through the light of re - ‘Pay attention, not to its appar - amusements, distractions, and sends it to the spectacle once. reality, there are several ways in ality informing him about the ent, ugly face but to its hidden, political intrigues and fiction And He divides the festival, which which it conforms to Allah world’s true nature, it makes him beautiful face which looks to the telling that characterise life in is very extensive with regard to Almighty’s mercy, and one of these realise that love for the world and Eternal All-Beauteous One. modernity. both time and space, into cen - is as follows: after each group of attachment to it are quite mean - ‘Go for a pleasant and benefi - In his contemporary Quranic turies, years, seasons and even beings has completed its turn in ingless. cial promenade then return, and tafsir, Risale-i-Nur , Bediuzzaman days, and makes them all exalted the parade and the desired results That is, it says the following to do not weep like a silly child at the Said Nursi invites us to reflect on festivals in the form of parades for have been obtained from it, in a man, and proves it: ‘The world is disappearance of scenes displaying the nature of life in this world by all the groups of His creatures compassionate way, the Most a book of the Eternally Besought fine views and showing beautiful citing the following ayahs from with spirits and for His plant and Compassionate Creator makes One. Its letters and words point things, and do not be anxious! Surah Al-Kahf: ‘That which is on vegetable creation. most of them feel weariness and not to themselves but to the ‘The world is also a guesthouse earth We have made as a glittering Especially the face of the earth, disgust with the world, and be - essence, attributes and divine so eat and drink within the limits show for the earth, in order that in spring and summer, is a series of stows on them a desire for rest and names of another. In which case, permitted by the generous host We may test them as to which of festivals for the groups of small a longing to migrate to another learn its meaning and grasp it but who made it, and offer thanks. Act them are best in conduct; Verily, beings so glittering it draws the world. ignore its decorations then go! and behave within the bounds of what is on earth We shall make gazes of the spirit beings and an - And when they are to be dis - ‘The world is also a cultivation; His law then leave it without look - but as dust and dry soil,’ and the gels and the dwellers of the heav - charged from their duties of life, sow and reap your crop, and pre - ing behind you, and go. ayah in Surah Al-An’am: ‘What is ens in the high levels of the world. He awakens in their spirits a com - serve it. Throw away the chaff and ‘Do not busy yourself for noth - the life of this world but play and For those who think and con - pelling desire for their original give it no importance! ing with things which will leave amusement?’ template, it is a place for reflection homes. ‘The world is also a collection you and do not concern you. Do In his commentary on these that is so wonderful that the mind However, although humans, of mirrors which continuously not attach yourself to passing ayahs, Bediuzzaman says that the is powerless to describe it. But in the noblest of beings with spirits pass on one after the other so things and drown!’ All-Compassionate Creator, the the face of the manifestations of and the ones who benefit most know the One who is manifest in If we as believers perceive and Munificent Provider and the All- the divine names of Most Merciful from the festivals with regard to them, see His lights, understand understand the reality of life in Wise Maker made this world in and Giver of Life in this divine both quality and quantity, are cap - the manifestations of the divine this world in this way, then, ac - the form of a festival and celebra - feast and dominical festival, the tivated by the world and absorbed names that appear in them and cording to Bediuzzaman, this will tion for the world of spirits and names of Subduer and Dealer of in it, as a work of mercy, Allah the love the One they signify. Stop sever our intense attachment to spirit beings. Death appear with death and sep - Most Merciful induces in us a your attachment to the fragments this world. He clothes each spirit, great or aration. Some may argue that this state of mind that we feel disgust of glass which are doomed to be Furthermore, not only will this small, elevated or lowly, in a body is apparently not in conformity at the world and a longing to broken and perish. awareness lighten our parting decked out with senses suitable to with Allah Almighty’s all-embrac - travel to the eternal realm. ‘The world is also a travelling from this world but will, in reality, it and appropriate for it to benefit ing mercy as expressed by the ayah By informing a person who place of trade so do your com - make parting from this world to from the uncountable good things in Surah Al-A’raf: ‘My Mercy en - heeds the Quran about the knowl - merce and come; do not chase in the hereafter desirable for us, and bounties in the festival. compasses all things.’ edge of reality that the Quran con - vain the caravans which flee from Insha Allah. 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From Consciousness to Contentment Shabaan: tending to the planted seeds repeatedly during this JASMINE KHAN month. Aishah (RA) said: ‘I never ALHAMDULILLAH, if we have ‘There is a month between Rajab and Ramadaan, called Shabaan. People saw the Messenger of Allah fast planted the seeds of our for a complete month except for preparation for Ramadaan are very ignorant about this month, even though the reward of each Ramadaan, and I never saw him during Rajab, now is the time to do more fasting in any month tend to those seeds. deed is greater within it, and the deeds are presented to Allah SWT.’ other than he did in Shabaan.’ Allah has blessed us to be on (Reported by al-Bukhari and Mus - the doorstep of Ramadaan. Our lim) pious predecessors spent the faults are forsworn, in which sins forgiveness of sins, giving alms, presented to Allah SWT.’ (Imam When asked by Usamah ibn months preceding Ramadaan are expiated, and in which bene - charity and fasting. Ali ibn al-Hu - Bayhaqi reports this hadith in his Zaid (RA) why he fasted so much preparing for the efforts they were dictions are multiplied upon sain (RA) said: ‘Whosoever loves kitaab, Shuab-ul-Iman ). during Shabaan, the Prophet going to exert in the holy month Prophet Muhammad (SAW), the the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), Sometimes, we treat this month (SAW) replied: ‘People neglect this of Ramadaan. best of human creatures. wishes to seek nearness to Allah lightly because it falls between the month which is between Rajab Shabaan is the eighth month of In fact, it was in this month that SWT and receive His bounties, sacredness of Rajab and the holy and Ramadaan. In this month the the Islamic calendar and means to the famous verse regarding send - favours and rewards in this world month of Ramadaan. Let us make actions of the people are presented spread and distribute. During this ing blessings and peace on the and in the hereafter, must connect the intention to be more cognisant to Allah, so I like my deeds to be month, blessings descend and the Prophet (SAW) was revealed: Shabaan with Ramadaan in the of the benefits of this month; for presented while I am fasting.’ provisions and sustenance of hu - ‘Allah and His angels send their matter of fasting and special instance, fasting has great rewards (Abu Dawood and an-Nasaa’i) mans are distributed. blessings upon the Prophet, O you prayers.’ during Shabaan. Another hadith of the Prophet Blessings are initiated and pro - who believe, send blessings upon There are many virtuous days Ibn Rajab (may Allah have (SAW) said: ‘Worship at times of gressively increase so that, by mid- him and salutations of peace.’ with which Allah SWT has blessed mercy on him) said: ‘Fasting in tribulation (fitnah) is like Hijrah Shabaan, the blessings have (Quran 33:56) His prophet, Muhammad (SAW). Shabaan is better than fasting in (migration) to me.’ (Saheeh Mus - reached a considerable amount Therefore, it is highly encour - He has promised us great reward the sacred months, and the best of lim) and, finally, these blessings reach aged that we increase sending our for each and every virtuous deed, voluntary fasts are those that are The virtue and superiority of their peak by the end of Ra - salutations upon the Prophet, even if it be as small as removing (observed in the months) closest to worshipping Allah SWT when madaan. peace be upon him. As he himself, something from a pathway that Ramadaan, before or after. people tend to become negligent of The word ‘Shabaan’ (in Arabic (SAW) has told us: ‘When some - may trouble others. ‘The status of these fasts is like Allah’s remembrance is because script) is spelt with five letters: one pronounces a single blessing Every day, Allah SWT, through that of al-Sunan al-Rawatib, worship at such times is more dif - sheen, ain, baa, alif and noon. The on me, Allah SWT blesses him ten His love and mercy, has allocated which is done before and after ficult than worshipping Allah sheen stands for ‘sharaf’ (nobility), times.’ a specific time in which those who fard (obligatory) prayers. The when everybody is engaged in the ain for ‘uluww’ (sublimity), the The blessing of Allah SWT call unto Him are answered. same applies to fasts observed be - worship. baa for ‘birr’ (piety), the alif for upon His Prophet (SAW) is mercy. In a hadith, Usaama (RA) re - fore and after Ramadaan. Just as This is the time to irrigate the ‘ulfa’ (harmonious intimacy), and The blessing of the angels upon ports that the Prophet (SAW) said, al-Sunan al-Rawatib are better seeds we planted last month. Re - the noon for ‘nur’ (radiant light). him (SAW) displays gracious ‘There is a month between Rajab than other kinds of voluntary member, yesterday is gone and to - These are the gifts from Allah favour. The blessing of the ummah and Ramadaan, called Shabaan. prayers, so fasts observed (in the morrow is just a hopeful SWT to His servants in this upon Nabi Muhammad (SAW) People are very ignorant about months) before and after Ra - expectation; today is the only op - month. It is a month in which can be seen as a request for inter - this month, even though the re - madaan are better than fasts at portunity we have to tend our gar - treasures are laid open, in which cession on the day of reckoning. ward of each deed is other times.’ den if we hope to harvest if we blessings are sent down, in which This is the month of asking for greater within it, and the deeds are The Prophet (SAW) used to fast reach Ramadaan, Insha Allah. Muslim Views . April 2018 39

Art’s for All The curse of the cellphone selfies

Pictures can be taken on the hoof, fast and furious, journalistic or newspaper style, writes DR MC D’ARCY.

AMINA and Ali enjoy travelling. They’ve been for Hajj twice and have also performed three Umrahs. They’ve sauntered in Cairo, in Egypt, Istanbul, in An intriguing silhouette of my two Turkey, at the Taj Mahal, in sons at a wedding looking at a India, and even been to Kuala The simple abstraction of a green- hang-glider floating down towards Lampur – all places with halaal coloured vase. Photo M C D’ARCY Table Bay. Photo M C D’ARCY food. They have taken many selfie pictures with their cell phones and eagerly share their voluminous album with family and friends. There’s destructive history in the District Six foreground and drama in the South I was one of the viewers they Easter’s tablecloth over iconic Table Mountain. Photo M C D’ARCY hooked. I saw them in front of the this genre. But, firstly, the amateur your attention is a woman in a pyramids in Cairo. The gigantic photographer has to ‘see pictures’, bright-coloured dress walking pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu, some colour and composition. Here are away into the picture. Note how three thousand years old, man - some tips. the stone balls take your eyes into aged to peep as a small triangle of The picture of the green vase the distance to the left. The sig - stone between their heads. was taken from the front, giving it nage to the right directs you to In Istanbul, the many minarets an abstract feel, while adding a look deep into the picture. of the magnificent Blue Sultan bird to a silhouette of the ancient In the fifth picture, two men in Ahmed mosque emerged from British Stonehenge monument im - black stare out to a bright sunny their hair like six candles in the mediately brings chirping life to it. day across the sea. It is intriguing. wind. The iconic masterpiece of A third still-life picture is con - Who are they, and what are they Indian architecture, the Taj structed with composition in looking at? They are my sons at a Mahal, was similarly evident, its mind. A simple, transparent vase wedding in Camps Bay. They are striking dome firmly ensconced against an uncluttered background looking at a hang-glider floating between two round heads, the is filled with coloured marbles. down from Signal Hill. minarets jutted heavenwards from The orange flowers in the vase The sixth picture is imbued The sun, the centre of life on earth, goes to sleep over False Bay. their ears. Amina and Ali do not light up the picture. with history and drama. The fore - Photo M C D’ARCY exist but their cell phone photog - Balancing the picture with an ground tells the story of the cata - background, iconic Table Moun - the centre of the picture. The pho - raphy does. With this in mind, it is orange doily makes the composi - strophic demise of District Six tain is covered by the dramatically tograph of a sunset over False Bay wise to consider some basic pre - tion glow but it is still static. The during the apartheid era. In the lit ‘tablecloth’ cloud of the South- breaks the rule. cepts in photography. Pictures can addition of a small clock gives life Easter, the eponymous ‘Cape Doc - Pictures tell stories. Look be - be taken on the hoof, fast and fu - to the picture. tor’. fore you press photographic shut - rious, journalistic or newspaper The fourth picture is of the It is often said that you should ter buttons. Enjoy their tales for style. Some of the most iconic pic - empty expanse of the Grand Pa - never have your prime subject in years to come. tures were, and are, produced in rade, in Cape Town. Grabbing

It’s easy to construct a glowing flower A picture of the Grand Parade’s expanse of emptiness that moves your eyes in A chirping bird injects life into the ancient Stonehenge Stones of Britain. still-life composition that sings with all directions: the stone balls to the left, the signage to the right and the colourful Photo M C D’ARCY colour. Photo M C D’ARCY figure that walks into the emptiness. Photo M C D’ARCY 40 Muslim Views . April 2018 Man in the middle aiming for the top emerging umpiring panel, which is to make the long trek back to the According to him, the media SEDICK CROMBIE just below the CSA’s top umpiring dressing room. sometimes portray the negative ALLAHUDIEN Paleker was born panel. This decision showed Allahu - context and create unnecessary in Newfields, Cape Town, but his In 2013, he made the top CSA dien’s mettle in that he did not hype around issues. If only we had family moved to Cravenby Estate umpiring panel, which is the First- allow the occasion to get the better known what would transpire in when he was six-months-old. He Class Umpires Panel. This move of him. He knew then that he had the third Test at Newlands be - attended Cravenby Senior got him onto an exchange umpir - passed his first test and whatever tween South Africa and Australia Secondary School up to matric. ing panel which was established nervous tendencies might have barely a few days after this inter - The family was always avid between South Africa, New been present were immediately view was conducted. cricketers and Allahudien used to Zealand, Australia and India, dispelled. This Cape Town-born son has travel with the local Elsies River which allows umpires the oppor - His decision did not go unno - now made Pretoria his home, is Cricket Club as their scorer from tunity to umpire in different con - ticed by some friends, who com - married to Pretoria-born Shakira, the age of ten-years-old. He fondly ditions across the world, and mented, ‘If you can get a decision and he credits her and her family recalled how he earned his pocket umpire to international players in right against the Indians you are with the staunch support and car - money on such stints. their own backyards. set for great things.’ ing he gets when away on his um - Despite his scorekeeping for As a result of this umpire ex - Allahudien has learnt how to piring stints. Elsies River CC, he joined the op - change, he umpired in New handle such nerve-racking situa - Allahudien, a qualified teacher, position Cravenby Cricket Club as Zealand in 2012, Australia in tions: he just gets his mind clear, currently holds a post as Head of a junior cricketer. Sports such as 2014 and India in 2015. When sees it as a new journey, goes into Sports at Al Ghazali College, in cricket in such close-knit commu - umpiring in these countries, a re - a cocoon, cuts himself off from his Pretoria. His previous teaching po - nities and within close proximity port card on your performance is surrounds and concentrates hard sition was at Al-Asr Educational of adjacent suburbs was usually Allahudien Paleker. sent to CSA who then ranks you on what’s happening in front of Institute, for 13 years, where he run along family lines and in the Photo the late ALWYN MYBURGH* on their panel, which uses the him. taught Mathematics and Eco - case of the two suburbs, Elsies himself as an all-rounder, top- same criteria as the ICC. He sees in himself a character - nomic and Management Sciences, River and Cravenby, it was no dif - order batsman, off-spinner and Allahudien’s umpiring career istic like that of international ten - and was also Head of Sport. ferent. even wicketkeeper. was rising rapidly and, in Novem - nis champion Roger Federer, The 40-year-old has cut his It was, however, a break from Allahudien realised that he ber 2017, he was placed onto the whom he admires a lot but, above teeth as an umpire at a number of that tradition when Allahudien would have a mountain to climb International Panel of ICC Um - all, he says to himself, ‘I do belong high profile matches in South joined Cravenby CC while his fa - should he wish to continue as a pires, which is just a notch below here.’ Africa: the CSA T20 Final between ther played for Elsies River CC. professional cricketer, and he the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires, For Allahudien, this is the start the Titans and Warriors, the Mo - The budding top order batsman started thinking of life after which consists of only 12 interna - of his journey and the hard work mentum 50 Over Final in January and off-spin bowler was quickly cricket. This led to a conversation tional umpires who qualify to um - only commences now as he is 2018 between the Dolphins and noticed as a junior at Cravenby with South Africa’s Marais Eras - pire in Test matches around the being monitored by CSA and the Warriors as well as the South CC and was sent to play trials for mus, who serves on the Elite Panel world. ICC on a regular basis. African ‘A’ versus the England ‘A’ higher honours at Western of ICC Umpires. Allahudien’s first real interna - His next step is to try and get game. Province Cricket Union. Allahudien’s father, Jamalodien, tional break came in 2018 during onto the ICC’s elite panel as one of All of this has done him the Allahudien made the grade and and uncle, Hassan, were already a T20 game between South Africa only 12 umpires who are allowed world of good as he continues to was selected to represent Western Western Province league umpires and India. Although he had um - to officiate in Test matches. He is cut a path for himself in the more Province Cricket Union at Under and talk at home was always pired and officiated in a number of still regarded as a relative young - challenging world of modern day 13 and Under 15 levels. There, as about cricket and umpiring, and in international women’s games, he ster in umpiring terms despite his cricket. He is surely destined for a junior, he rubbed shoulders in his mind this could potentially be had never umpired in a men’s in - mature age of 40, and the road to - higher honours although he is 1994/ 95 with the likes of Paul a new path that he could follow. ternational game of this magni - wards that esteemed panel has aware that the ICC elite panel has Adams and Alfonso Thomas, Erasmus advised him to start tude. slowly begun. not changed for the last three or cricketers who would later become his career as an umpire as early as The Centurion T20 interna - Allahudien sees umpires and four years but he remains positive household names in national and possible or as soon as he decided tional had 32 cameras, a big sold umpiring as managers of the game about his prospects. international cricket. to hang up his playing boots. out and raucous crowd, extreme who need to ensure and maintain Allahudien has come a long Allahudien’s cricketing career The umpiring scene nowadays noise levels and probably an audi - a calming influence on those way from the early days as a was on the up and when he fin - is different to that of 30 years ago ence of more than a billion people around them. They further have to young boy accompanying his play - ished school, he enrolled at Uni - and the sport was looking for watching the game on television. ensure that their neutrality is at all ing father to cricket matches at the versity of the Western Cape, in younger men. Erasmus’s advice On top of this, his father, a keen times above reproach. hallowed grounds of Western Bellville, a stone’s throw from his did not go unheeded and as soon cricketer, umpire and someone he Although umpires might, at Province Cricket Club (WPCC) home, where he excelled as a top as Allahudien’s contract at the Ti - revered all his life, was also in the times, bump into players and are with its own swimming pool. He order batsman and part-time off- tans expired, he enrolled for um - stands. expected to socialise with them on did not bother to watch the cricket spinner. piring courses. Being on the same field as the odd occasion, they need to en - as the pool was his domain as a He was soon noticed for his all- In 2006, he joined the North - Dhoni, Kholi, Shami and others, sure that they do not cross the line young boy, unaware that the round skills and, in 1997, made erns Cricket Umpire Association, who were revered and treated as between what happens on and off cricket bug had already bitten. the South African Universities which offered umpiring courses, kings in their country, and with the field, which might cloud their He now stands on the pinnacle team. In the same year, Western and where he also sat for umpiring the aura surrounding them, one judgement. of a game he has treasured and Province also recognised his examinations. He was now ready can easily become intimidated. My interview with Allahudien which will reward him for his sac - prowess and selected him for the to start his umpiring career at club As if this was not enough, Al - happened in the same week as the rifices for such is the game of Western Province B team. level. lahudien’s test came with the very Smith/ Rabada debacle in the test cricket, and when it does, we will, Not long thereafter, the Preto - He was quickly noticed and, in first ball bowled to India’s opening between South Africa and Aus - one day, surely, see Allahudien of - ria-based Titans franchise knocked December 2007, was invited by batsman, Rohit Sharma, who was tralia in Port Elizabeth. In ventur - ficiating as one of the esteemed 12 at his door with a contract. He re - Cricket South Africa (CSA) to at - wrapped on the pads. ing an opinion, Allahudien Elite Panel of ICC Umpires at the mained with the Titans from 1999 tend Umpires’ Week and, in 2008, Allahudien adjudged him LBW reiterated that the laws of cricket Gabba, Lords and, above all, at to 2006. was invited to umpire at the Na - and raised the dreaded finger but specifically state that the umpires the iconic Newlands, in our He acknowledges that it was tional Club Cricket Champi - Sharma chose to have the decision should approach the captains who Mother City. difficult to become a top-order onships. reviewed via the DRS (Decision must control their players. *Alwyn Myburgh, the batsman at a top flight province, After another stint as umpire at Review System). For Allahudien, It was the captains’ duty to photographer to whom the image mainly due to the top five or six the university tournament and the the review must have felt like a order their players to stop the be - of Allahudien Paleker is credited, positions being reserved for his club championships in 2009, he lifetime but, in the end, the deci - haviour which led to the alterca - passed away on February 24 this white teammates. He then punted was elected onto Cricket SA’s sion was upheld and Sharma had tions; it was not the umpires’ duty. year.

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