My very old friend Mohammed Safi Attari invited me to deliver a speech at his family wedding at Madurai. I have known Safi bhai for around 8 years now, we met at a Dawat-e-Islami gathering and later came to know that we work for the same company.
It was Safi Bhai, Syed Rabbani Bhai and faqeer Qadri who were among the people who laid the foundation of DI in Bangalore. I have seen Safi and Rabbani bhai doing inventory , marking prices and ordering of maktab for whole nights. Wherever we used to have a religious program they would be there, carrying maktab on their bikes. In one of SDI's Ijtima we were not allowed to have Maktab stall at Ijtimagah so we kept our stall outside and sold books for over 25 thousand rupees in two days.And yes it was all fi sabeellillah, no petrol reimbursement no waqf-e-madinah guys.
However times changed and we all kind-of moved out of the tahreek. Safi bhai shifted to Malaysia, Syed Rabbani got busy with his business and I moved on to study my Ifta course, but the love between us remained the same.Its been 4 years now but when I think about it, it seems like just yesterday.
It was Safi Bhai, Syed Rabbani Bhai and faqeer Qadri who were among the people who laid the foundation of DI in Bangalore. I have seen Safi and Rabbani bhai doing inventory , marking prices and ordering of maktab for whole nights. Wherever we used to have a religious program they would be there, carrying maktab on their bikes. In one of SDI's Ijtima we were not allowed to have Maktab stall at Ijtimagah so we kept our stall outside and sold books for over 25 thousand rupees in two days.And yes it was all fi sabeellillah, no petrol reimbursement no waqf-e-madinah guys.
However times changed and we all kind-of moved out of the tahreek. Safi bhai shifted to Malaysia, Syed Rabbani got busy with his business and I moved on to study my Ifta course, but the love between us remained the same.Its been 4 years now but when I think about it, it seems like just yesterday.
