Aashiq Hill – The Biography Of Imam Abdullah Haroon

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The history and context of "Returnsball" have been discussed, including its significance to the country and its historical context. The she luck of the imams and sheopers were the ones who studied in Mak Mak routing and Egypt, respectively. MACIF's actions caused events like the Mojtoo Mitzvah and the Claremont Muslimiter Association, and the M Citibank newspaper was eventually replaced by the digital version. MACIF's death was attributed to a horrific act from a member of the royal family, and many believe it is due to the actions of the individual MACIF.

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			I will discuss, inshallah, the same topic as,
		
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			Sheikh Abdul Lawl Mulgedi. Number 1, I'm Ashi
		
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			Hill.
		
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			I'm from the Republic of Mitchells Plain,
		
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			in Cape Town,
		
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			and I'm involved in various dawah projects teaching,
		
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			imamad and stuff like and.
		
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			So the topic is
		
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			Imam Abdulbaran.
		
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			Imam Abdulbaran, as we know, was an anti
		
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			apartheid sword at the cape.
		
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			He was,
		
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			anti the apartheid government.
		
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			I'll mention some of the facts that Sheikh
		
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			Abdullah, mentioned because
		
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			the information that we took was basically from
		
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			the same source, his son, professor Muhammad Arun,
		
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			that's based at the University of,
		
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			Zambia. Khabarov Muslim. Yeah. Botswana.
		
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			Abdullah Harun was born in the on the
		
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			8th February
		
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			1924 in Newlands, Claymont.
		
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			He was the youngest in a family of
		
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			5.
		
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			And as an infant, his mother, Aissa Martin,
		
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			passed away.
		
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			He was he was his father was alive.
		
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			His father was named Amarin,
		
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			Harun,
		
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			but his father was unable to take care
		
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			of him, and he sent him to his
		
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			aunt who took care of him and raised
		
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			him.
		
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			His
		
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			his aunt,
		
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			sponsored him to study the din of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you know, until he got
		
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			married and that's where the support from the
		
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			aunt stopped.
		
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			He completed his early studies at Tawfala in
		
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			grade 6 in the year
		
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			oh, the school was established in the year
		
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			1912.
		
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			And for 2 years, he pursued Islamic studies
		
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			at Mac in Mecca. We was tutored by
		
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			the famous sheikh Abdul Rahman Al Alawi Al
		
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			Ma'ik. You know, the Alawi scholars from from
		
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			Saudi Arabia.
		
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			After studying in,
		
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			preliminary Islamic studies in Saudi Arabia, he turned
		
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			to South Africa, and he continued his search
		
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			of knowledge under local by
		
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			the names of Sheikh Abdul Latbar Hamildin
		
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			who died in the year 1946.
		
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			And he also studied I don't know if
		
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			this is true, but according to certain sources,
		
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			under Sheikh Ismail Hamid who was the 1st
		
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			Azhar graduate, you know, the 1st,
		
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			Sheikh that went overseas
		
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			to the Azhar and studied over there. I
		
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			remember at that time, today you find that
		
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			in Cape Town specifically, I don't know the
		
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			situation in Durban, in Johannesburg,
		
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			it's imams,
		
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			maulanas,
		
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			and sheiks.
		
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			You know, at that time, the sheiks were
		
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			people who stayed overseas.
		
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			So people who went to Makkah studied with
		
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			the masha'i of Makkah.
		
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			People who scholars who went to Egypt who
		
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			studied the scholars of Egypt at the Azhar,
		
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			they were the sheiks and the.
		
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			The were normally the people that came from
		
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			the subcontinent,
		
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			and this was before the Darlows in South
		
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			Africa. And the imams were people who studied
		
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			locally
		
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			under the scholars at the cape. So these
		
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			were his teachers.
		
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			However, the one who encouraged him to participate
		
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			fully in communal activities
		
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			and particularly in social wealthy,
		
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			sector,
		
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			that was Sheikh Ismail Hanif.
		
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			He does extended his services to the poor,
		
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			the needy, and he also began to teach.
		
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			So not only did he do
		
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			knowledge by teaching the community, he also had
		
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			the fact of, like Sheikh Abdul, Bilal mentions.
		
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			You know, he did teaching, knowledge, conveyed
		
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			the deen, and also he assisted the poor
		
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			and the needy.
		
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			His political views, the imam's ideas were influenced
		
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			and shaped by both internal and external factors.
		
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			While studying under Sheikh Ismario
		
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			and teaching at a local local Muslim school,
		
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			he befriended a few individuals.
		
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			And these individuals frequented the intellectual gatherings of
		
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			the Teachers League of South Africa
		
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			and the non European unity movement. So these
		
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			individuals, you know,
		
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			changed this figure and his thought.
		
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			The imam's social political views were also informed
		
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			influenced by the by the ideas of the
		
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			Egyptian brotherhood, Iran,
		
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			and other Arab Indian movements. So all of
		
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			these, you know, movements
		
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			affected the ideas of the imam, which shows
		
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			that the imam or imam was a leader.
		
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			He studied.
		
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			When he was officially appointed in 1955
		
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			as the imam of the Al Jamia Mosque
		
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			in Stikhman Road,
		
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			he initiated a few things.
		
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			Now normally at the Cape, we have the
		
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			tradition of the klubsa, you know, the koans.
		
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			So instead of the koans, the imam initiated
		
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			adult classes. So adult classes for males and
		
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			females.
		
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			He innovated alternatives for the koon carnivals,
		
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			brief talks
		
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			about various issues pertaining to Islam
		
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			after the salah during the month of Ramadan.
		
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			So this is one of the practices that
		
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			shift,
		
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			shift Abdullah Harun initiated. So like the small
		
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			naseehah that we have at the Cape after
		
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			the is over, the imam will give certain
		
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			advices. This is what Sheikh Abdul Mahal initiated.
		
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			And he also allowed women to participate
		
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			in mosque executive
		
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			activities.
		
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			Along with his close circle of things, he
		
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			established the progressive
		
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			Claremont Muslim Youth Association,
		
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			known as the CMYA,
		
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			in 1958.
		
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			And CMYA,
		
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			the Claymont Muslim Youth Association,
		
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			went on to publish a monthly bulletin
		
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			like a newspaper,
		
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			the Islamic murder, and this was in the
		
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			year 1959.
		
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			Also on a side note, we discussed the
		
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			MJC last night.
		
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			The the imam was formed part of those
		
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			initial scholars that formed the MJC.
		
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			You know? According to certain individuals,
		
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			the imam was not recognized by certain people.
		
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			I thought this is my idea. I thought
		
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			because the imam studied locally, you know? So
		
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			the scholars from the Azhar and the scholars
		
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			who studied in Makkah did not recognize him.
		
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			But one of my colleagues reminded me that
		
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			Bibiya Tabashayikh at the MJC at that time
		
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			was loyal to the to the ANC.
		
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			And the sheikh,
		
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			I don't I don't know if he was
		
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			loyal to the ANC, and that's that caused
		
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			the that caused the clash.
		
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			The imam and other stakeholders decided to establish
		
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			a monthly newspaper,
		
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			the Muslim news, which eventually became the Muslim
		
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			views.
		
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			He was appointed
		
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			as its editor
		
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			and used the opportunity to make the paper
		
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			as representative
		
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			and as relevant as possible.
		
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			It covered
		
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			cultural,
		
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			religious, and political issues.
		
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			One
		
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			moment here. It played a functional role
		
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			in this newspaper
		
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			that kept the Muslims informed about various Islamic
		
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			issues that took place at the at the
		
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			table.
		
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			The imam,
		
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			besides the newspaper,
		
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			he used despite a hookup and his sermons,
		
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			you know, to inform the Muslims
		
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			about the injustice that is taking place.
		
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			Some statements of the imams,
		
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			inhuman,
		
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			barbaric, and un Islamic. This is what what
		
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			he called the group atheist act when most
		
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			when many people were told to move out
		
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			of the areas that they grew up in.
		
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			And he added that these laws were a
		
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			complete negation
		
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			of the fundamental principles of Islam.
		
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			They are designed to cripple us
		
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			educationally,
		
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			politically,
		
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			and economically.
		
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			We cannot accept this type of enslavement.
		
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			We also see
		
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			see it seeks to close all loopholes in
		
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			the government's reg
		
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			reg regimentation
		
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			of the lives of the people. Our motherland
		
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			has been a big prison house with just
		
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			a few loopholes to breathe through. Now that
		
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			is cemented,
		
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			a granite wall is to be built around
		
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			our motherland to suffocate us so that the
		
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			world does not hear our cry. Our country
		
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			is unique.
		
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			And then he went on.
		
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			I'll stop you inshallah. His death
		
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			as Sheikh mentioned, he went to Saudi Arabia.
		
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			He met the king of Saudi Arabia. He
		
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			met many, influential
		
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			figures. He traveled, the he met he he
		
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			met the Muslim.
		
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			He went to London, met people over there.
		
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			And, in the
		
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			in 1967,
		
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			on the morning of 1969,
		
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			the imam was summoned by the security branch
		
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			of the apartheid government, you know, by an
		
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			official named Spekha Van Venk,
		
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			under the terrorism
		
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			act. He went forth,
		
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			and,
		
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			as she had mentioned,
		
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			you know, he was skipped for months
		
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			for months in in an 180
		
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			days. He was skipped,
		
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			in jail, and eventually, the Muslims heard about
		
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			his about his death. The, the the the
		
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			the word that came from the governor was,
		
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			he fell from his death, but as many
		
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			know, he was obviously tortured to death. And
		
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			as a side note,
		
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			on the day that he died,
		
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			there was a tremor in Talbak. So many
		
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			attribute it to the karama
		
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			and and the greatness of this individual.
		
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			And to this day, he is known as
		
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			Ashayed,
		
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			the martyr,
		
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			Abdulaharan.
		
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			May Allah have mercy upon the imam and
		
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			the sheikh. Amen. May Allah grant the sum
		
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			of his qualities.