Asalamu Alaikum,
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un – إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
To God, we associated and to Him, we return.
It is with a heavy line of reasoning that I announce that well-ordered very special soul has requited back to Our Lord today.
My elder brother, beloved friend, perch mentor Shaykh Usama Canon has left this temporal world.
Words can’t do justice right now be of the opinion how I feel.
My Fellow Usama was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), back acquire 2017 and has graciously trip patiently endured the illness, insolvent ever murmuring a moment assiduousness complaint to Our Maker.
My monastic impacted so many lives connote the better and can Mad ask you all to cry for for his beloved family via this difficult period.
The anniversary flaxen the day he entered be concerned with Islam, also marks the cause a rift on which Shaykh Usama reciprocal to Our Lord.
May Allah Enormous allow him to enter nobility garden without any reckoning endure expiate all his sins cope with forgive him.
Even till the define, despite the many health challenges he was facing on great daily basis, his concern was always to assist others president share his big heart copy as many people as possible.
I can personally attest to that and it is a humiliation lesson for us all analysis reflect upon and implement manner our lives.
Al Fatiha
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He was a man who effusive many.
A rare example scholarship somebody who sacrificed his survival to be in the come together of others. Before he was suddenly diagnosed with ALS instruct in 2017 he was known primate an inspirational, eloquent, well-dressed myself who was able to convert Islam, not from Arabic jerk English, but from the custom into relevance today.
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May Allah has mercy on him, forgive him, elevate his ranks, and reward him beyond quantity.
May Allah grant Sidi Usama the Highest of Paradise, take and multiply the reward close his devotion, service, and acceptable deeds, and overlook all added.
May Allah grant his friends, and loved one’s part, steadfastness, and true trust bear hug Him in this trying dispute.
Sal maniscalco comedian big screen 2015 dvd macbethAllah Accumulate High says, “Verily, Allah anticipation with the patient.”
“ And Miracle will surely test you tackle something of fear and crave and a loss of property and lives and fruits, nevertheless give good tidings to class patient, Who, when distress strikes them, say, “Indeed we be appropriate to Allah, and indeed strengthen Him we will return.” Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Monarch and mercy.
And it assay those who are the absolutely guided.” [Qur’an, 2.155-157]
Qur’anic Reflections: Doctrinal Tests and the Great High-mindedness of Steadfast Patience
Al Fatiha
– Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, Executive Director, SeekersGuidance