Dr Sooliman is the Founder, Director and Chairman of the Gift of the Givers Foundation (Waqful Waqifin Foundation). In 2003 his organisation became the first in South African history to receive 60 million Rand from the South African government for humanitarian aid for KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province. He gave up his career as a Medical Doctor to pursue the field of humanitarian aid. In 1992 he founded Gift of Givers Foundation. In 1993 he was awarded The President’s Order of the Star of South Africa, by former President F.W. de Klerk. In 2002 he received a Letter of Commendation from the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.

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Ismail Musa Menk was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was tutored by his father who is a well known scholar and Da'ee. He completed his hifz and recitation courses at an early age and learnt the Arabic and Urdu languages whilst studying Shariah under his father. At the same time he attended an Academic College in Harare where he completed his secondary secular education. He then attained a degree in Shariah from the University of Madinah and later specialised in Iftaa at Darul Uloom Kantharia in Gujarat. He is a broad minded, motivational speaker who has won the hearts of many. He teaches at the Darul Ilm in Harare and finds the time to attend many international religious

Firdouza Waggie describes herself as a Muslim woman; a daughter; a wife; mother of three children; an academic and gender activist. She was 38 years old and was born in Bo-Kaap.

During the apartheid era many South Africans sacrificed something of themselves for freedom.

Being involved at a young age in student politics and not writing the matriculation examination in 1985 along with many fellow students, I managed to complete my matric the following year under very difficult circumstances. After matric, I was very fortunate to pursue a degree in physiotherapy at the University of the Western Cape. This was the beginning of my

Shafeeqah Abdurrazaaq is  the second eldest of three sisters. She and her older sister Maahirah have studied Hifz Al Quraan under Sheikh Muhammad Adams at Masjidus Salaam in Athlone. Maahirah studied Arabic in Syria for two years and when she relocated in 2004 to Cairo to continue studies of Al Quraan, Shafeeqah joined her to study for Ijaaza. She is probably the youngest local females to have completed three modes of reading Al Quraan.

My Inspirational Verse

Surah Nur No 24 Verse 35

 

“Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp. The lamp enclosed in Glass. The Glass as it were a brilliant star lit from a blessed tree, An olive, neither of the East nor of the West whose oil is well nigh luminous, Though fire scarce touched it. Light upon Light. Allah doth guide whom He will to His light. Allah doth set forth parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.”