Salamu za Ijumaa kutoka jiji la Daressalama

Dar-Es-Salaam

How to Pronounce Tanzania - PronounceNames.com

 So many times I come across people that when talking to Expats or people who don't speak swahili, they try to pronounce Tanzania as Tann-Zaa-Nea thinking that's how its pronounced in English. Please let's make sure that we are teaching people how to pronounce it the proper way, and not translate it for them.
Again its:
   T  AA n - z   uh - n   EE - uh
 to car no zen up no see  up

See how we pronounce it from our National Anthem. Sang that tune on every school assembly, I can sing it in my sleep.

Msomi wa Leo - Sheikh Ali bin Abdalla bin Nafi Mazrui (1825-1894)

Sheikh Ali bin Abdalla Mazrui was born in 1825 in Mombasa, Kenya. He was an Islamic Scholar coming from the lineage of the Mazrui scholars in Mombasa, a Muslim Judge and a teacher. In 1837, Sheikh Ali traveled to Mecca with his brother Sheikh Ahmad and father Sheikh Abdalla bin Nafi for further studies. In 1846 after nine years of religious education in Mecca, Sheikh Ali and his father Sheikh Abdalla decided to return to East Africa in order to share their knowledge, however, as fate would have it, Sheikh Abdalla passed away before making it back to Mombasa.

Sheikh Ali Mazrui returned to Mombasa alone and taught religion. He was known as a traveling scholar, who went around different towns in East Africa, setting up temporary schools. This resulted in his popularity as everywhere he went people knew him. In 1854, he traveled back to Mecca to  further his religious education and returned to continue teaching. He was so knowledgable in Islamic studies and popular in the area, that he was appointed an Islamic Judge of Mombasa.

Sheikh Mazrui is known as a reformer, who changed the traditional practice of segregating students according to their racial or ethnic backgrounds, by stripping those barriers. This movement, combined with his style of teaching, influenced many of his students. This resulted in a new breed of Islamic scholars in the area, who were not constrained by the traditional barriers and so they were able to produce very prominent scholars of their own such as Sheikh Al-Amin Ali Mazrui, and Sheikh Abdalla Farsy that were great contributors to Islam in East Africa.

May Allah accept him in his janna and elevate his status, for he truly practiced the true proper traditions of spreading Islamic knowledge.

Watch the video below to get the rest of his story... 

Hotuba ni ya kiswahili

Source: The pioneer role model of the East African Muslim Reformers.

The Muslim Jesus (ITV Documentary)

Get to know the Muslim Jesus as narrated in the Quran. Enjoy!


Jumaa Mubarak Everyone!

Quote of the day (by Imam Shafi'i ) - Knowledge

"All humans are dead except those who have knowledge. And all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds. And those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere. And those who are sincere are always in a state of worry." - Imam Shafi'i

Sewa Haji (1851-1897)

Today, 117 years have passed and we still remember this great man.

 

Sewa Haji, born in 1851 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He was a wealthy business man, who had business caravans in Bagamoyo and Zanzibar, but was also known to be God fearing and  a philanthropist.

He donated a three storey building in Bagamoyo in 1892 to be used as a school. The school was the first mixed race school in Tanganyika during the German colonial era. Later on, he developed a hospital, donated many wells and land in Bagamoyo during the cholera outbreak, and a home for the lepers. He built the biggest hospital in Dar-Es-Salaam that was named Sewa Haji Hospital, later on during the british rule, the name was changed to Princess Margaret Hospital, now Muhimbili Hospital. He donated property and land to the poor, without regards to race or religion. He passed away in February 1897 in Zanzibar at the age of 46. 

In Tanzania he is greatly remembered, in the new rebuilt Muhimbili Hospital, a ward is named in his honor. His school (now Mwambao Primary School) and hospital(now Bagamoyo District Hospital) still stand in Bagamoyo. The land he donated in Mombasa,Kenya is still being used as a cemetary. 

May Allah grant him a high place in Jannah. He was a muslim not only by name, but also by his actions, for he understood the true meaning of serving mankind. 


source: Bagamoyo

Happy World Hijab Day - Feb 1st 2014

 

Who said your bridesmaids can't be covered and still look elegant?

A quick glance and you would think this is a royal wedding.

 Pick your style

 

Learn to work with it

Own it!

(Mama Salma Kikwete - First Lady of Tanzania)

Lets dig out those hijabs ladies.

For more info go to World Hijab Day