Fatima Barkatulla – Fatima Elizabeth Cates grave at Anfield Cemetery

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A speaker discusses the history of Fatima Elizabeth Cates, one of the first Muslims in the UK. She explains that she found her grave at the Anfield Cemetery and that her family members found her niche. She also mentions a fundraiser to raise money for the buried buried sister and encourages those who visit the cemetery's burial burials to preserve the history.

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			Brothers and sisters, I'm here
		
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			today in Anfield
		
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			Cemetery here in Liverpool,
		
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			up north
		
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			in England.
		
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			And
		
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			I really wanted to come and visit the
		
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			grave of Fatima Elizabeth Cates.
		
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			Her name was originally Frances
		
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			Elizabeth Cates,
		
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			and she was one of the first Muslims
		
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			in the UK. One of the first Muslim
		
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			women in,
		
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			in Liverpool, if not the first Muslim woman
		
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			in Liverpool.
		
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			And
		
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			I managed to
		
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			find
		
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			the gravestone.
		
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			We pray for her and those Muslims who
		
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			came before us here in the UK.
		
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			Just to let you know the story behind
		
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			her
		
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			her gravestone.
		
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			1 of the brothers in London,
		
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			I believe his name is brother Hamid Ali,
		
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			he
		
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			he set up a school, and he named
		
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			it Fatima Elizabeth Cates
		
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			School, I believe.
		
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			And, I visited the school actually. It's for
		
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			children, and he named it after her. And
		
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			then he started, researching
		
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			her
		
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			grave. You know? Like, where where was she
		
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			buried?
		
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			And alhamdulillah, he went through the archives and,
		
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			for Anfield Cemetery, and he found
		
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			her name, Frances Elizabeth
		
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			Elizabeth Cates.
		
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			And then it said that the person who
		
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			had,
		
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			arranged her burial
		
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			ceremony
		
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			was Abdullah Quilliam.
		
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			Abdullah Quilliam, you know, one of the
		
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			early Muslims in or the Victorian Muslims,
		
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			who established a masjid in Liverpool.
		
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			And, SubhanAllah,
		
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			he and some other brothers and sisters, they
		
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			found her gravesite
		
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			right
		
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			here in Anfield Cemetery.
		
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			There's the church, the chapel.
		
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			And as you can see, it's a very
		
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			old cemetery.
		
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			But when they found her grave,
		
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			they found that there was absolutely nothing there.
		
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			It was
		
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			an unmarked grave
		
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			in between
		
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			gravestones.
		
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			And, so,
		
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			sister,
		
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			I believe her name is Amina
		
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			Swazbrick.
		
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			She,
		
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			started a fundraiser
		
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			to try and raise funds so that we
		
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			can mark
		
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			the grave of our sister Fatima Elizabeth Cates
		
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			so that future generations
		
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			and the Muslims who come here would would
		
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			know, you know, where she is.
		
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			I think it's really important to preserve that
		
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			history.
		
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			And so,
		
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			you know, I remember when she was fundraising,
		
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			we all took part in that effort.
		
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			So
		
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			we managed to
		
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			establish
		
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			her gravestone.
		
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			And so if you're ever in
		
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			Liverpool,
		
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			if you want to come and salons to
		
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			the, you know, the Muslims
		
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			who are lying here
		
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			in their graves,
		
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			you can do so.
		
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			Unfit cemetery,
		
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			you can look it up.
		
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			It's quite easy to find. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			You can just literally goo put put it
		
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			in Google Maps, and you'll find it.
		
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			The grave of Fatima Elizabeth Cates
		
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			in Anfield Cemetery
		
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			here in
		
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			Liverpool.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			bless our brothers and sisters from the past.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			make their becoming a Muslim
		
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			in a time when there were very few
		
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			Muslims in the United Kingdom. Make it a
		
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			sadaqa jariyah for them,
		
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			and,
		
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			may he make their graves,
		
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			a
		
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			garden a a little garden from the Gardens
		
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			of Paradise,
		
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			and
		
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			may we meet them on the day of
		
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			judgment.