Shareefa Beevi Esmail Saheba, the respected wife of Mukarram Amir
Jamaluddin Saheb of the Kerala South Jamaat, passed
away on the early morning of Thursday, the 10th of May, 2018---23 Shabaan
1439 AH. Innal-Lilaahi wa inna ilayhi
raajiuun.
Born in October 1951, Shareefa
Saheba was 67 years of age at the time of her death. She was not keeping well
for some months now, and the end came while she was sleeping peacefully at home.
Indeed the angels came home to call her back to Allah (swt), like the Qur’an
attests about the Divine decree regarding the course of all human souls: “Allah takes the souls at
the time of their death; and those that do not die [He takes] during their
sleep. Then He keeps those for which He has decreed death and releases the
others for a specified term. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give
thought” (39:43).
At home, daughter Fauzia Jamal Saheba led the
other women of the family in giving a proper bath to the dead body as per
Islamic rites. The funeral prayer (Salaat al-Janazah) was performed under the leadership of her husband Mukarram Amir
Jamaluddin Saheb of the Kerala South Jamaat after their son Fazil Jamal and
family reached home from Delhi in the late afternoon. Remaining members of the family,
members of the South Jamaat, close relatives and even other Muslims outside of
the Jamaat also joined the Janaza prayers at the historic Noor'ul Islam Masjid,
Mathra and soon thereafter, the dead body was buried at the burial space
enclave adjacent to the Masjid complex before sunset. May Allah (swt) illumine
her tomb, Aameen.