Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi
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| Name: | Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi |
| Birth: | 1st Rajab, 1345 / 5th January, 1927 [1] in Ushri Bihar, India[2] |
| Death: | 7:45pm on Thursday, June 20, 2002 [1] |
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Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi (Arabic: سعيد أخطر رزفي) (d 2002 [1]) was an Shi'a twelver Islamic scholar.
Other transliterations include Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Tanzania
In 1959 he came to Lindi, Tanzania were he was appointed the local Islamic scholar (Arabic: Alim). He there learned Kiswahili and improved his English in order to better perform his work as a scholar [2].
In 1962 proposed a plan of propagating the faith among the African people to Haji Ebrahim H. Sheriff in Arusha. He amended and improved the plan and it was put into action in 1963 [2]. This plan was circulated in the triennial Conference of the Africa Federation in Tanga in 1964 were it received the approval of Hussein Nasser Walji (approved in the general meeting of Dar es Salaam Jamaat) [2].
Marhum Mulla Asgharali M.M. Jaffer writes:
[edit] Bilal Muslim Mission
In the end, the plan was adopted by the majority as a policy, marking the birth of the Bilal Muslim Mission [2].
Marhum Mulla Asgharali M.M. Jaffer writes:
Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi was transferred from Arusha in the north of Tanzania to the group in Dar es Salaam in mid-eastern Tanzania. This expansions of activities created the need of an autonomous body, so Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi went to Mombasa in southern Kenya in 1976 in order to have a meeting with the office-bearers of the Supreme Council. They decided to create to organizations, so Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania was registered on 16th April 1968 and the Bilal Muslim Mission of Kenya in 1971 with Rizvi as one of the founding members, the Chief Missionary and the Tableegh Advisor of the Late Chairman of the Africa Federation, Late Mohamedali Meghji and to Marhum Mulla Asghar M.M. Jaffer, Alhaj Mohamed Dhirani and Alhaj Habibbhai Mulji [2].
[edit] Travels
His name became synonymous with the word Tabligh among the indigenous people of East Africa, and he introduced correspondence courses in Islamic studies in English and Kiswahili besides several other courses for Shia students through the Bilal Muslim Mission, some of the courses being tough even outside Africa [2].
He traveled widely, holding assemblies and lecturing University students in Africa, Europe, Canada and USA, making sure that his speeches reached intellectuals, new converts and those wishing to know more about religion [2].
[edit] Funeral
His funeral was attended by a very large crowed in Dar es Salaam. Although normally coffins are taken by a special van to the graveyard, two scouts holding two large black flags led the cortege to the burial site while traffic police stopped the busy Saturday morning traffic to make way for the cortege, who walked on foot covering the route of the funeral Cortege from the Imambara to the cemetery in more than half an hour. A list of Officials, Chairman and Scholars from several countries were present. The obligatory Islamic funeral prayer (Arabic: Salat al-Mayyit) was held by Mohamed Rizvi, the son of the deceased [2].
Representatives from Bilal Muslim Mission merited him with raising the number of Shi'as in Afrians from none to 100 000 [2].
He spoke Urdu, English, Arabic, Persian, Kiswahili and knew Hindi and Gujrati [1].
He has was given authorisations (Arabic: Ijazah) by fourteen Grand Ayatullahs for riwayah, Qazawah, and Umur-e-Hasbiyah [1].
[edit] Legacy
[edit] Works
He has authored over 140 books, some of them having been into 22 languages [4].His books has been available from Philippines to Guyana [1].
- Imamate: The Vicegerency of the Prophet
- Slavery From Islamic and Christian Perspectives[5]
- The Fast of 'Ashura [6]
- Imam Hasan: The Myth of his Divorces [7]
- The Fast of 'Ashura [8]
- The Illustrious Period of the Imamate of Imam Zayn al-'Abidin [9]
- The Scholarly Jihad of the Imams: 95 - 148 A.H [10]
- Martyrdom of Imam Husayn and the Muslim and Jewish Calendars [11]
- The Qur'an: Its Protection from Alteration [12]
- Slavery: Islamic and Christian Perspectives [13]
- P O R K [14]
- God: An Islamic Perspective [15]
- The Justice of God [16]
- The Life of Muhammad The Prophet [17]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=4939
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j victorynewsmagazine.com
- ^ a b "Outline of Shi'a Ithna-ashari History in East Africa" by Marhum Mulla Asgharali M.M. Jaffer
- ^ victorynewsmagazine.com
- ^ on al-islam.org [1]
- ^ on al-islam.org [2]
- ^ on al-islam.org [3]
- ^ on al-islam.org [4]
- ^ on al-islam.org [5]
- ^ on al-islam.org [6]
- ^ on al-islam.org [7]
- ^ [8], [9]
- ^ http://www.al-shia.com/html/eng/books/slavery/index.htm
- ^ http://www.almujtaba.com/books/contemporary/pork.html
- ^ http://al-shia.com/html/eng/books/beliefs/attributesofgod/attributesofgod.htm
- ^ http://al-shia.com/html/eng/books/beliefs/compulsion-or-freedom/compulsion-or-freedom.htm
- ^ http://al-islam.org/lifeprophet/
