Ebrahim Gabriels – highlighting the importance of Heritage

And there are a lot of his family and friends also babara. But

because it was not documented, we've lost it. The school said to

us, okay, we will preserve the kramat. But the others we don't

know about, there's no proof. So they were building on these

grounds because it was not documented. Then Imam abdrahman

Bashir said to us, my dear brothers and sisters, it is

important. This is a lesson for us. Everything must be documented.

So

we've got a beautiful story to tell, and I want to come to the

point of the youth,

you know, if we are not going to tell the story, the beautiful

story, to youth, we might lose our heritage, we might lose our youth,

we might you lose the vibrancy of Islam in this part of the world,

our duty is just to deliver the message. Some days,

children love to hear these beautiful things about their

forefathers. That is the nature of youth. They've got a lot of

energy. So we must make use of the youth. One of the days, my dear

brother and the sisters, we are going to be gone in 50 years. 60

years, most of us will be gone,

and our children will be left over and left behind to carry on the

flag of la ilaha, illallah, Muhammad of Rasulullah, my dear

brother sisters, this is not just another gathering.

It's not a formality, the launching of book and come

together by Islam at Faisal. No, we must take note. You know, like

imamti said yesterday on the on the on the radio, the storm was it

mono. So Allah, Allah, Allah went back to the the drawing board, or

to decide why it was not a kid. Now, we must also go to the

drawing board and say Canis, who come as a super young means and

drug addicts, as drug addicts and gangsterism. And this is such a

lovely community,

and that one of the answers to that is that amofan owns it, a

role of this bill

wata awanu alalibiri, watakawa, imagine Allah says to us, and

Allah doesn't say this to some people in Egypt, in Saudi Arabia,

or in Kuwait, or somewhere in the world, Allah saying to to this

ayah, to each one of us cooperate and help to attain goodness and

morality and piety in your community. Asmaa, man also

responsibility.

This deen is not about Anna, I and I and I about you. This, deen is

about the ummah. This, deen is about humanity. Imagine the NABI

Muhammad. Sallam cried, ya, Rabbi, Ya, Rabbi ummati. Ummati O, my

Creator, my ummah, my ummah. Just

imagine the NABI Muhammad says to us, Allah has given each and every

Nabi a dawah, musta, Java a, a DUA. If that particular Prophet

makes a dua for his ummah, Allah will accept wala adahidu I

Rasulullah says, I have asked Allah to keep my that dua back for

the day of qiyama, so can, so that I can intercede for each and every

individual of my ummah, so they can go to Jannah.

It's not about me. That is why Rasulullah is Habib Allah, the

Most Beloved of Allah. Why? Because? Because of his love and

concern for others.

I'm going to, I'm going to conclude now, and I hope that you

are going to remember this hadith of our beloved, Nabi Muhammad, Abu

Asmaa. It is meant for you and for me. Rasulullah says, hayunas,

unfamiliar vestibus. Rasulullah said the Hadith the best of you

are those who are the best for humanity in the service of

humanity. So may Allah subhana wa bliss gathered in here today, and

may Allah subhana granted so many, so many people looking to benefit

of the writings of Faisal Darius, we make dua for him, for his

father, his mother, his whole family, that Allah subhana was

granted long life inshallah to continue with the good work. And

as you know, my dear brothers and sisters,

I always conclude, really with the concluding words of Rasulullah

sallallahu. Sallam had so much love for us and so much wanted all

of us to enter Jannah. And his last words, he said, assala,

please preserve your Salah, perform your five time Salah. So

that is what we need to do at any given opportunity. As a, as a as a

bookkeeper, as a carpenter, as a dress maker, as a housewife,

everybody, not only the Imams and the Sheikhs, and all of us speak

about it. All of us must speak about the please.

The reason of the Salah, our connection to Allah, subhanaw

taala. So my dear sisters and brothers, if you are you today and

you are still neglectful with the Salah,

make this day a memorable day that you From today onwards, you're not

going to miss one salah, and you're going to be stiff now

salah, and not only you, but you are going to make sure that your

children and all your grandchildren will make Salah

inshaAllah once again, shukran for inviting me to zalka malachilan

wa, sallAllahu, alayhi wa,

I would like just to put a comment there by Chef Gabriel's, you know,

my father and mother, they are quite, you know, in the beautiful

age. And sometimes they would say, when it's around peace, you know,

very cast in the hopakure anahahan. And those are like oral

traditions. And

it was not recorded, so I didn't know about it, and I heard it from

them, but in a few years time, you know, not now or tomorrow, they

will not be there anymore, and we will let go if they didn't

transversion only. So it's good to record stuff, and especially in

now, probably on the internet, because the books also would go

out of will not be in the in modern anymore.

So the next speaker began the researching the history of Muslims

in the strand and obtained his master's degree at the University

of the Western Cape in 2006

the title of this thesis was Islam in the strain 1838 to 1938

he received the senior Lifelong Learning award from the University

in 2009

and the Western Cape provincial arts and culture award in the

heritage category, having published several books on the

subject Islam roots in the Western Cape, the most recent being the

Stand Muslim community 1822, to 1966

Mr. Ibrahim rider, you