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Sheikh
Abdulfattah Abu Abdullah Adelabu (Ph. D.
Damas), a West African Islamic Academic
founded AWQAF Africa, of which he’s
the first al Amir (i.e. President).
Sheikh Abu Abdullah was studying
Postgraduate Degrees in Damascus early
1990’s during when Syria reviewed its
national security after an ‘Oslo
Accord’...
Syria
like many other contries around the
world witnessed, during this period, the
flood of refugees from war troubled
nations like Somalia, arrival of people
from Algeria during the brutal
struggling between the Mujahidun and the
government, resettlement of the
Palestinians fleeing from sophisticated
guns of the Israelis as well as
adventure of African migrants for
reasons uncountable…
As
a delegate of African Students Union and
general secretary for a West African
Students Union in Syria, Lebanon, and
Jordan, the founder who became the first
al Amir of AWQAF Africa visited prisons
and hospitals the time over 10,000
African migrants had been killed,
jailed, or wounded in their adventures
to reach the Middle-East many for
sanctuaries and others as
cross-borders to Europe for - what they
had expected to be - a better life...
Horrified
at the number of unknown or unclaimed
dead and touched by the scale of dangers
and suffering of the immigration
prisoners and their wounded country men,
women, and children in the hospitals,
The founder and first al Amir formed a
group of volunteer African students to
help...
The
founder received huge supports from the
President of Syrian Scientific Academy
and Chancellor of the University of
Arabic and Islamic Studies, Prof. Dr.
Abdullatif Salih Al Farfour, and from
the Dean of Postgraduate School at the
university, Prof. Dr. Shawqi Abu Khalil,
the Dean of Faculty of Literature - both
signatories to the fellowship of the
founder at Syrian Scientific Academy...
Dr.
Gassan Taklah of Huda Clinic and
Dispensary, Sheikh 'Adil ash Sha'ar, Dr.
Mukhtar Tantawi of Tantawi Clinic, Eng.
Basil Tantawi, Dr. Hashim Agha, Eng.
Ahmed Agha, Dr. Muhammed Shuqair of
Shuqair Clinic, Mr. Ridhwan Tabba', Eng.
Ammar Nuri, Abu Subhi, and Abu Ahmad of
Damascus’ Rukn-ud-din Motel, The Zain
Family, and as Sayyidah Umm Abdullah
(the supportive and dedicating wife of
the founder) were among many others who
had contributed so much to assist the
founder...
In
addition, the founder was privileged to
have benefitted from Sheikh Sa'id al
Qasimi and his in-law Sheikh Nasir ud
Din al Albani, especially during several
affectionate visits to their houses and
their splendid libraries...
The
generousity of Sheikh Abdullah Dukk al
Bab of Institution Of Jami’ Az Zahara
to allow the founder to study under the
like of Sheikh Abdul Qaid al Arnahout
had been so benevolent to the founder
academically.
Prof. Dr. Ramadhan al Bouti,
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Bugha, and Prof. Dr.
Wahbah az Zuhaili had all benefited the
founder hugely during their sessions at
the University of Damascus.
The founder’s long academic
journey, which had even enabled him to
learn from the like of Sheikh Bin Baz
and other scholars in Arabia, is a
worthy story...
When
reading for his Postgraduate Degrees,
the Syrian Scientific Academy
facilitated the founder of AWQAF Africa
to research on two academic works one
titled Spread of Islam in Africa and the
other The Missionaries in Africa - South
of Sahara in Focus...
The
researches ended in plea for a peaceful
continent - free from ignorance,
selfishness, deadly spread of AIDS, and
above all war and sufferings therefore -
and called on more effective methods of
education, arbitration, administration,
and most importantly wider adoption of
Islamic Codes Of Life to bring about
lasting and possitive changes while
learning from effects of - for instance
- colonization, slavery, and power
strugglings...
The
appeal won favourable responses.
In the middle of 1995 influential
people - including the above mentioned
prominents - met with the founder to
discuss his pleas, calls, ideas, and
objectives...
The
first meetings of AWQAF Africa had laid
groundwork for AWQAF Africa movements.
Delegates were chosen among the
African Students Unions in Syria,
Lebanon, and Jordan.
Out of these meeting came the
first ad Diwan (i.e. records including
reports, memorandums, and accounts) of
AWQAF Africa...
The
first delegates of AWQAF Africa agreed
to cooperate with authorities to arrange
for safe return of the migration
prisoners, give better information to
people back in Africa about other
worlds, help to create job opportunities
for African students back in their home
nations etc., and better inform the
religious travellers or migrants...
After
the adoption of the first ad Diwan in a
sitting at the University City of Basil
al Asad, Damascus, AWQAF Africa started
to provide helps to African students in
the Arab Lands, give useful and
practicable advices to thousands of
stranded African migrants, work to
secure safety, release, and relief for
apprehended African migrants, and offer
consolation and supports to families of
victims of migration imprisonment and
casualties...
AWQAF
Africa was therefore chosen as an
operative name dedicated absolutely to
serving the Muslims in Africa - in
particular - and all around the world -
in general...
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