Markaz Sri Petaling থেকে North America!
From: Wasiful Islam, Shura Bangladesh
For: Shura and other responsible brothers of NA
As salaamu alikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
My dear respected elders and brothers:
I write this with a heavy heart. Not too long ago, the unpleasant news reached us of the departure of our dear brother and friend.
Wali Muhammad( inna lillahi wa inna ilaihe rajeoon). It was indeed a great shock to me. We had known each other from way back, 1973.
A jamat from Bangladesh had brought back 4 americans (cash) to Nizamuddin. I was there for the first time myself. The brothers were Wali Muhammad, Bro. Hashim (now Shiekh Hashim living in Karachi), Muhammad Khalid of Detroit and Bro. Yusuf of New York.
I recall Wali saying in accented urdu “Tabligh sabsay bara kaam hain” Tabligh is the greatest of all works, to someone sitting next to him. I was really impressed, Here was this pushtu attired, beturbanned, red blooded, young white American praising the work of tabligh in URDU. I was witnessing the realization of the dream of Moalana Ilyas sahib(RA).
Haji Abdul Muquith Sb.(may Allah fill his grave with noor) forthwith tashkeeled me with this jamat as their translator, along with Mvi. Zahur mewathi from the markaz. I spent time with them in India as well as in Bangladesh when they came for about 40 days. We became very friendly, he also gaveme one of his thowbs as hadiya.
Then when I went for khuruj in 1976 to USA/Canada with M. Abdul Aziz Sb.(RA). Wali invited us for dinner to his house in Philly. He had become our brother in law as he had married a Bangladeshi girl who the niece of a governor of erstwhile East Pakistan. He also took me to see his Quetta halal meat shop which was his dream shop.
When I was living with my family in Trenton NJ, for a while in 1989, Wali would visit us with his family, sometimes we would go to their place and he would lay out a dastarklhwan fit for kings.
There are so many memories, In 1979 we took a masturat jamat, and our ladies stayed in his house. We met sparodically at ijtemas and jors in Riwand Tongi and Nizamuddin. During Hazraats Safr of USA Canada in 2000, Wali and Bro. Luqman were constantly with us. Last we met when we traveled with M. Ahmad Lat and Yameen sb in 2002 all over NA. He was looking good, his sugar was under control too.
Wali was such a wonderful person. Kind, generous, helpful, such a noble spirit, a great dayee. He was singular in his purpose and had dedicated his life to Tabligh. His loss is not a loss for America rather for the whole world. I don’t see any replacement for such a person. Now it is upon us to carry on with his work.
I call out specially to his three beautiful sons, I have seen them grow over the years. You have to be able sons of an able father. Wali loved his sons and prayed for them to be dayees. We too pray that Allah accepts them for this high and lofty work. The work for which Wali gave away everything he had.
I can hardly believe Wali is gone. I daresay, although we lived oceans apart. Other than Luqman, I was very close to him, He would tell me about his personal stuff and whenever we met we would find time to sit alone and talk talk and talk.
I will be coming to USA soon, Walis absence will be really too much to bear. We pray Allah grants him the highest of Paradise, Al Firdous.
So you have moved on dear friend. May your tahajud be a source of noor in your grave. May you slumber in beds brought from jannah. May your reckoning be easy And may Allah unite us again under the shades of Eden.
Wasiful islam Dhaka Bangladesh
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