Alaa? Ndio maana ilivunjwa EAMWS kwa kisingizio cha Mlezi Aga khan ni Shia,
Mohamed Said hawa wanafunzi wako wako hapa uwedurusishe kunako uga wa siasa wa nchi hii, huwa unatukosha
The East African Muslim Welfare Society
Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, receives an address of welcome from leaders representing the East African Muslim Welfare Society during his ceremonial installation at Nairobi as the 49th Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims; October 22, 1957. Photo: Special 21st Birthday Souvenir.
I will give you the help that should satisfy everybody here. I shall double whatever you will collect for the cause of Islam; that is if you will contribute £1 for the erection of mosques and schools and for Tabligh, I will give you a personal donation of £1 from myself and make the sum of £2!!”
Thus declared the late Highness Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah Agakhan Ill, when in that historic year 1945, His late Highness laid the foundation of the East African Muslim Welfare Society, which has done so much since then for the uplift and general welfare of the African Muslims, in the East African Territories. Speaking at the Annual General meeting of the Society in Mombasa on Saturday 16th November, 1957, which was attended by His Highness Karim Aga Khan, Mr. Abdulkarim Y. A. Karimjee, the President of the Society said:
“As your Highness is aware, this unique and unparalleled institution was conceived as far back as 1937 in a conference of Muslim leaders of Nairobi and was reorganised with vim and vigour in the subsequent Muslim Conference at Mombasa 1945 under the chairmanship of His late Highness Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah Aga Khan.
“The stirring, inspiring and eloquent words of our noble Founder, the late Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, are still ringing in our ears and his generosity in offering pound for pound in doubling its funds is responsible for the wonderful and far-reaching work the society has been able to do since that time to this date.
“In all, we have so far collected 9,000,000/- of which 4,000,000/- has been so generously donated by our kind-hearted late Founder. We have been able to build 150 mosques, including the magnificent mosques of Kibuli, Kisumu, Tanga and Zanzibar, and 150 schools including three secondary schools and a teachers’ training college
“The ideals we have been pursuing are not only to help Muslims in their religious sphere but to see that we produce enlightened, capable, devout and progressive Muslims who can start shoulder to shoulder with other communities and conspicuously play their part in the development of these East African territories in all fields — religious, social, economic, industrial, cultural and above all humanitarian. We hope to carry out our above aims with Your Highness’s lead, direction and advice.”
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