Obituary Shaikh Muhammad Qassim al-’Alawi (1909-99)

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Sanad-chain from Shaykh Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-’Alawi to Shaikh Muhammad Qassim.

1 Shaykh Ahmad al-‘Alawi
2 Shaykh adda Ben tounes - ( not too sure about this name)
3 Shaikh Hassan Isma’il
4 Shaikh Muhammad Qassim al-’Alawi -B'ham
5 Sidi Riyadh Yemani B'ham -who has ended the tariqah and has joined Al-Qadiri Boutchichi instead.

Note: 5 Sidi Riyadh Yemani B'ham - Sidi Riyadh Has Now joined Tariqah Qadiri Boutchichi and was the last to have received the full 'Idhn of the Alawiyyah tariqah which he has now ended in the UK after seeing the SIRR-power/secret in Tariqah Al-Qadiri Boutchichi which has the shortest Sanad-chain to Shaykh Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-’Alawi see below and also see link about Sidi Hamza Al-Qadiri Boutchichi

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Sidi Hamza has the shortest link to Shaykh Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-’Alawi

Sidi Hamza al-Qadiri Boudshishi

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The death of Shaikh Muhammad Qassim al-’Alawi in Birmingham on 2 June 1999, aged ninety, is a grievous loss to the Yemeni community in Britain, to whose spiritual welfare he devoted the greater part of his long life.

Shaikh Muhammad was born in the village of Shamir, near Ta’iz, where he had a rudimentary education and helped herd the family’s sheep before migrating to Cardiff in 1925 at the age of fifteen. There, like many of his compatriots, he found employment as a sailor in the British merchant navy and toured the world. He joined the local Cardiff branch of the ’Alawi Sufi Order (tariqah) led at that time by Shaikh Hassan Isma’il (and also, for a while, by Shaikh Abdullah al-Hakimi before he left to join the political reform movement in Yemen). The ‘Alawi Sufi Order was based at Mustaghanem, in Algeria, where it had been founded by Shaikh Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-’Mawi (1869-1934), a highly respected mystic who, by the end of his life, had attracted tens of thousands of disciples from many different countries, notably Yemen and Syria. When Muhammad Qassim travelled to Algeria to visit Shaikh Ahmad, the latter granted him the title of ’Shaikh’, but he always preferred the lesser title of ’Muqaddam’.

Having satisfied his taste for travel and completed his Sufi training, Shaikh Muhammad felt ready to dedicate his life to the religious service of the Yemeni community in Britain. In 1941, at Shaikh Hassan’s suggestion, he moved from Cardiff to Birmingham where local social and economic conditions, including intermarriage with non-Muslim women, had led many Yemeni expatriates to follow a non-Islamic lifestyle.

In Birmingham, Shaikh Muhammad established the city’s first zawiya at his home in Edward Road, Balsall Heath, an inner city area where many Yemeni families had settled. There he combined the roles of teacher, prayer leader and spiritual guide, and became a father figure within the Yemeni community.

According to his expressed wish, Shaikh Muhammad was buried in Birmingham. His funeral was attended by a large number of Yemenis from all parts of Britain; and those who came from the homeland to pay their respects included the President’s brother, General Muhammad Abdullah Saleh, and Dr Abdullah al-Shamiri.

The death of this selfless and much loved figure has left a spiritual gap in the life of our community which will be hard to fill.

MUHAMMAD AL-MASYABI

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Other Shaykh and Men of Allah buried in the UK

Two Great Quran Translators Buried in Surrey!

The Muslim cemetery is at Brookwood, Surrey, near Woking

Translator Marmaduke Pickthall

Translator Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Marmaduke Pickthall (1875 - 1936)

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How to get to Brookwood Cemetery

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Some Early British Converts to Islam Aslo buried in Brookwood-Surrey


1887: William Henry Quilliam (Shaikh Abdullah Quilliam)given 'Sheikh-ul-Islam of the British Isles' by the Sultan of Turkey

1916: British Muslim Lord Headley (Al-Haj El-Farooq)
One of the earliest converts to Islam was Lord Headley (1855-1935) who is buried in Brookwood cemetery, and the famous book “Islam, Our Choice” was compiled by the Woking Muslim Mission in 1961


Sir Archibald Hamilton:
A distinguished convert buried in Brookwood is Sir Abdullah Archibald Hamilton, baronet, a relation of the English royal family. He is pictured here with his wife. He died in March 1939.

"Sir Archibald, fifth baronet of the first (1776) creation and third baronet of the second creation (1819), succeeded to these baronetcies on the death of his father, the late Sir Charles Edward Hamilton, in 1915.

Lady Buchanan-Hamilton: A woman convert, also buried at Brookwood, is Lady Khalida Buchanan-Hamilton, President of the British Muslim Society of the time. She was the wife of Deputy Inspector General Charles William Buchanan-Hamilton,

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The Historical Roots Of Islam In Britain

British Muslims today have a rightful sense of familiarity with their surroundings. The encounter of Islam and the British Isles goes back a long way. Just as under the surface of Britain's handsome landscape there is a complex geological interplay, similarly our cultural topology has been fashioned by diverse forces and interminglings, including the Muslim encounter for over millennium. What better indication then the English language itself. The philologist Richard Derveux has uncovered 600 loan words from Arabic. Far from being an alien deposition in the topsoil, Islam in Britain has deep historical roots.

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Some Rare Photos of Early British Muslims
these are really worht looking at

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Great Shaikh Abdullah Quilliam

The Shaykhs writings and Poetry

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William Henry ('Sheikh Abdullah') Quilliam, 1856-

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Special BBC feature on Abdullah Quilliam and his Mosque, including audio testimonials from his grand-daughter and admirers

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This Profile

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The Quilliam Press -Imam Haddad Text

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full article link above
..The Quilliam solution is to translate works by those ulema who have noticed the weakening intellectual stamina of the Umma. In particular, Quilliam publishes the writings of Imam Abdallah al-Haddad, regarded as the 'renewer' (mujaddid) of the twelfth Islamic century. This great Yemeni scholar and descendent of the Holy Prophet distilled the inherited wisdom of mainstream Islamic scholarship, and produced books which have always been revered by the ulema as models of how to combine brevity with depth.

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