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Written by Azeem
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Thursday, 21 April 2005 |
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Bismillah Alhumdulillah Wassalatu Wassalam Ala Rasulullah
All Praises are Due to Allah. It is for the sake of Allah that we have gathered to reflect upon the contributions of one of his slaves, Br. Anwer Beig. I was asked to speak about my experiences in dealing with this beautiful brother. Br. Anver Beig was a YM supporter and a youth advocate way before my time in YM. The fact that 5 of the 6 National Coordinators of Young Muslims were present at his Janazah shows how dear he was to our organization.
To me personally he served as a major inspiration. He revived a very important Sunnah which is being abandoned today. And this is a Sunnah which is more subtle than most other Sunnahs. He similarly to prophet Muhammad (S) made efforts to bring the young and old together for the sake of serving Islam. He had given me an opportunity to work on the newspaper he started, Mirror International Weekly. My assignment was to gather opinion articles which would later be reviewed by the editors and the final selections would be made. Every week the Mirror team used to meet at the Mirror Office on McGuiness Blvd. to review the latest edition and discuss the upcoming edition. In those meetings he welcomed all the team members, young and old to openly discuss their views and ideas for the future of the paper. In this setting I had the opportunity to witness his drive and passion for Islamic Work.
Whenever he would greet me he would smile earnestly and give me a firm handshake. He would always make sure that I was well accommodated and was in a position of comfort. Less than a week before his passing I had the opportunity to pay him a visit. Br. Asim Ranginwala urged me to go, by saying “he will be really happy to see you”. Boy was he right. Br. Anver, has always shown great appreciation to youth involved in Islamic Work and has encouraged them to be firm in their convictions and to always stand with the truth. While I was sitting by him he asked his son Umar to provide me with a better chair than the one I was sitting on. Even in the position of being close to death, he was more worried about other’s comfort rather than himself. Subhanallah an individual with Taqwa doesn’t require reassurance; he himself becomes the one to reassure you of being patient, obedient, and committed to being content with Allah (SWT)’s will.
I can honestly say that I have never met anyone with better character than Br. Anver Beig. I can put a Wallahi on that.
Note: Br. Anver has left behind many means of gaining Sadaqah-e-Jaria. One of those means is the Mirror Weekly paper. I implore all of you not to just read the paper. But to become subscribers to it. There is a subscription form located on each edition. Or you can subscribe on http://www.readmirror.com
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