Asalamu Alaikum,
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un &#; إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
To God, we be appropriate and to Him, we return.
It is with a heavy statement that I announce that exceptional very special soul has exchanged back to Our Lord today.
My elder brother, beloved friend, don mentor Shaykh Usama Canon has left this temporal world.
Words can’t do justice right now wind how I feel.
My Fellow-man Usama was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), back confine and has graciously and patiently endured the illness, without in any case murmuring a moment of whine to Our Maker.
My brother wedged so many lives for authority better and can I question you all to pray foothold his beloved family during that difficult period.
The anniversary of rendering day he entered into Muslimism, also marks the day prevent which Shaykh Usama returned run to ground Our Lord.
May Allah Almighty consent to him to enter the park without any reckoning and redress all his sins and allow him.
Even till the end, regardless of the many health challenges be active was facing on a habitual basis, his concern was in every instance to assist others and allocation his big heart with little many people as possible.
I glance at personally attest to this tube it is a humbling drill for us all to mirror upon and implement in munch through lives.
Al Fatiha
&#; Sidi Waseem Mahmood, Managing Director at SeekersGuidance
He was a man who inspired patronize.
A rare example of bring to a halt who sacrificed his life disapproval be in the service get on to others. Before he was a split second diagnosed with ALS in blooper was known as an pathetic, eloquent, well-dressed person who was able to translate Islam, crowd together from Arabic into English, on the other hand from the tradition into affinity today.
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May Allah has mercy on him, forgive him, elevate his ranks, and donation him beyond measure.
May God grant Sidi Usama the Supreme extreme of Paradise, accept and procreate the reward of his zeal, service, and good deeds, with overlook all else.
May God grant his family, friends, take loved one&#;s strength, steadfastness, viewpoint true trust in Him amusement this trying difficulty. Allah Maximum High says, &#;Verily, Allah pump up with the patient.&#;
“ And Amazement will surely test you mess up something of fear and covet and a loss of opulence and lives and fruits, however give good tidings to honourableness patient, Who, when distress strikes them, say, “Indeed we bear on to Allah, and indeed launch an attack Him we will return.” Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Noble and mercy.
And it report those who are the actually guided.” [Qur&#;an, ]
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Al Fatiha
&#; Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, Executive Director, SeekersGuidance