Sheikh Khalid Hafiz

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Khalid Sheikh Hafiz ( Kamal Khalid Sheikh Abdul Hafiz ; born December 1, 1938 in Mubarakpur , India , † December 6, 1999 in Wellington , New Zealand ) was an imam. He served as an advisor to the Islamic minority in New Zealand and the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand from 1982 to 1999 .

Life

Khalid Sheikh Hafiz, the son of Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri, was born in Mubarakpur, India.

He attended the Ehyal ul-Ulam in Mubarakpur and received further training at the Dar ul-Ulum in Deoband . He completed his studies in Islamic Jurisprudence ( Fiqh ) between 1962 and 1967 at the Islamic University of Medina , Saudi Arabia . After graduating, he worked as a teacher in Ghana for 14 years . In 1981 the Saudi Arabian School of Faith ( Darul Ifta ) appointed Sheikh Hafiz as Imam for the Muslim community in Wellington , New Zealand .

He soon became a chaplain in the newly created national Muslim organization in New Zealand , the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ). As the imam of the capital, Khalid Sheikh Hafiz played an important role in the development of the New Zealand Muslim minority in the 1980s and 1990s.

In contrast to the fluctuating elected members of the mosque committees, Hafiz attended almost all of the meetings over almost two decades. He also took on the first national Quran recitations from competitions; promoted and engaged in interfaith dialogue with local Christians and Jews , and persistently preached tolerance and goodness.

Sheikh Hafiz participated in Hajj nine times and spoke English, Arabic and Urdu.

Khalid Sheikh Hafiz died in the suburbs of Wellington Rongotai at the age of 61. Over 200 people attended his funeral and he was obituary in the local newspaper as “an imam as imams should be, but rarely are” (an imam as imams should be but rarely are).

literature

  • Bob Shaw: An imam 'as imams should be, but rarely are' . In: The Evening Post , December 16, 1999, p. 5.
  • NZ Muslims threatened over Gulf crisis . In: The New Zealand Herald , August 22, 1990, p. 1.
  • Peacelink , October 1990, p. 1.
  • Charles Mabbett: Fasting and Feasting . In: City Voice , March 2, 1995, p. 4.
  • Abdullah Drury: Islam in New Zealand: The First Mosque . Christchurch 2007, ISBN 978-0-473-12249-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bob Shaw: An imam 'as imams should be, but rarely are' . In: The Evening Post , December 16, 1999, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Hafiz, Sheikh Khalid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hafiz, Kamal Khalid Sheikh Abdul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imam
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mubarakpur , India
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1999
Place of death Wellington , New Zealand