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<blockquote data-quote="genc_kalem" data-source="post: 180154" data-attributes="member: 15919"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><img src="http://www.lastprophet.info/en/images/stories/heberler/hedley_churchward4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <em>At a time when Britain had major political and economic interests in the Middle East, Hedley Churchward had only one concern in mind while going on a pilgrimage to Mecca; the pleasure of Allah. Hedley Churchward, later known as Mahmoud Mobarek, was the first recorded British Hajji in history. </em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em>Abdulhakim Murad</em>, <em>a</em> <em>lecturer</em> <em>from Cambridge University Islamic Studies department,</em> <em>narrates for us the </em><em>fascinating conversion story of Hedley Churchward, the first recorded British-born Muslim who carried out the rites of Hajj on a five-month journey to Kaaba. </em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Hedley Churchward (Mahmoud Mobarek) was born into one of the most rooted and most well-known families of England, who owned the second oldest house (older than 700 years) of Britain. His artistic talents were recognized at an early age as a result of which he studied art. His field of specialization was theatrical scene painting and in 1880s, he became famous with his paintings. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">On an inspirational trip through Spain, Churchward's eyes met glamorous Islamic architecture for the first time and he continued his journey across to Morocco where he was impressed by the purity and gentleness of Islamic lifestyle. After several trips to Morocco, Hedley Churchward announced his shocking decision to his family: He had taken the Shahada and converted to Islam. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://www.lastprophet.info/en/images/stories/heberler/hedley_churchward2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />For a convert, Churchward had great achievements in the field of Islamic studies. He studied at Al-Azhar for years and became both a preacher and a prominent Sira lecturer at the Qadis' Academy. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">In Cairo, Mahmoud Churchward was assigned to decorate one of the city's mosques. Moreover, it was thanks to his intercession that the President of South Africa, Paul Kruger granted permission for the construction of the first mosque in Witwatersrand, South Africa. Later, Churchward got married to an Egyptian woman, who was the daughter of one of the leading Shafi‘i jurists of Al-Azhar. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Since his conversion to Islam, he had been thinking and feeling that he had not become fully integrated with Islam. Thus Churchward decided to go to Mecca to carry out the rites of Hajj in an effort to complete the Five Pillars of Islam. Abdulhakim Murad narrates Churchward's deep thoughts and feelings on going to Mecca through Churchward's own words: </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>‘One evening, as I strode along the looming Pyramid in the sunset, and saw the jagged skyline of Cairo behind the dreamy African dusk, I decided to carry through what I had intended to do ever since I turned a Moslem - I would go to the Kaaba at Mecca.'</strong> </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">It was the year 1910 and the politico-religious circumstances demanded him to prove his sincerity in his Islamic faith, since no Non-Muslim is allowed to enter the borders of Mecca. He was subjected to a three-hour examination by the Qadi of Egypt to determine the extent of his faith. After a successful exam, his ‘religious passport' was endorsed by the Qadi as well as the chief Ottoman cleric of the time and many leading scholars and imams to overcome the possible bureaucratic obstacles. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="http://www.lastprophet.info/en/images/stories/heberler/hedley_churchward3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Churchward set out from South Africa (Johannesburg) for Mecca in 1910. He had an exhausting steamship journey via Bombay. There he arranged an old pilgrim ship, the SS Islamic which was captained by a fretful Scotsman and armed against pirates and made its way to the Red Sea. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">At the Sudanese port of Suakin, he paid a visit to the British Council and was informed that he would not be allowed to disembark at Jeddah. Yet, he was able to make it safely to Jeddah, where he contacted the Ottoman officials and encountered no problem. There he also communicated with his pilgrim guide and they set out for the Holy City with two donkeys in the following evening with Halley's Comet blinking them from the star-splendid sky. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">As Churchward has recorded, <strong>"‘Against the stars I saw rock faces; we seemed to be trotting through a kind of canyon. Saving the fall of our donkeys' feet there was nothing to be heard, not even a jackal. ... Bang! Explosions suddenly rang from some place high in the dark hills. No mistake, those were rifle shots ... The growing brightness showed a very picturesque old building, a kind of tower several hundred feet above the road. From the steep path serving the structure some fez-adorned figures ran down. They wore uniforms and held guns in their hands.'</strong> </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">These attacks by desert Arabs on pilgrims were common despite the efforts of the Ottoman officials. Yet Churchward was able to get through dangerous situations of the hot and exhausting trip successfully. Trusting that Allah will arrange everything for the best, they had finally arrived in the Holy Land. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">The first phase of Churchward's five-month journey to Holy Land was completed as Churchward and his companion set foot in Kaaba, the House of Allah. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Mahmoud Churchward was the first British Muslim who saw the Kaaba in 1910 and was honoured by being the first British guest of Allah. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000080">Abdal Hakim Murad</span></span></span></strong></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>Abdal Hakim Murad </strong>wasborn as Timothy J. Winter in 1960 in London is a British convert to Islam. He studied at the prestigious Westminster School in London, UK and later graduated with a double-first in Arabic from University of Cambridge in 1983. Then in Cairo, he studied Islam under traditional scholars at Al-Azhar for three years and then also spent an equal number of years in Jeddah where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with the Shaykh Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad, and Shaykh Ismail al-Adawi. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">In 1989, Abdal Hakim Murad returned to England and spent two years at the University of London learning Turkish and Farsi. Since 1992, he has been a doctoral student at Oxford University, specializing in the religious life (Sufi brotherhood) of the early Ottoman Empire. He was appointed lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge in 1996. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Abdal Hakim Murad is the translator of a number of works, including two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali Ihya Ulum al-Din. He appears frequently on BBC Radio and writes occasionally for a number of publications including The Independent and Q-News International, Britain's premier Muslim Magazine; and <strong><strong>Seasons</strong></strong>, the semi academic journal of <strong><a href="http://www.zaytuna.org/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #000080">Zaytuna Institute</span></strong></a>.</strong> </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Abdal Hakim Murad is currently the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London), Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe, President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Director of the Sunna Project at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University which has published the foremost scholarly Arabic editions of the major Sunni Hadith collections. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">He lives with his wife and children in Cambridge, UK. </span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000080">Abdal Hakim Murad</span></span></span></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.lastprophet.info" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">www.lastprophet.info</span></span></strong></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="genc_kalem, post: 180154, member: 15919"] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][IMG]http://www.lastprophet.info/en/images/stories/heberler/hedley_churchward4.jpg[/IMG] [I]At a time when Britain had major political and economic interests in the Middle East, Hedley Churchward had only one concern in mind while going on a pilgrimage to Mecca; the pleasure of Allah. Hedley Churchward, later known as Mahmoud Mobarek, was the first recorded British Hajji in history. [/I][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][I]Abdulhakim Murad[/I], [I]a[/I] [I]lecturer[/I] [I]from Cambridge University Islamic Studies department,[/I] [I]narrates for us the [/I][I]fascinating conversion story of Hedley Churchward, the first recorded British-born Muslim who carried out the rites of Hajj on a five-month journey to Kaaba. [/I][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]Hedley Churchward (Mahmoud Mobarek) was born into one of the most rooted and most well-known families of England, who owned the second oldest house (older than 700 years) of Britain. His artistic talents were recognized at an early age as a result of which he studied art. His field of specialization was theatrical scene painting and in 1880s, he became famous with his paintings. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]On an inspirational trip through Spain, Churchward's eyes met glamorous Islamic architecture for the first time and he continued his journey across to Morocco where he was impressed by the purity and gentleness of Islamic lifestyle. After several trips to Morocco, Hedley Churchward announced his shocking decision to his family: He had taken the Shahada and converted to Islam. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][IMG]http://www.lastprophet.info/en/images/stories/heberler/hedley_churchward2.jpg[/IMG]For a convert, Churchward had great achievements in the field of Islamic studies. He studied at Al-Azhar for years and became both a preacher and a prominent Sira lecturer at the Qadis' Academy. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]In Cairo, Mahmoud Churchward was assigned to decorate one of the city's mosques. Moreover, it was thanks to his intercession that the President of South Africa, Paul Kruger granted permission for the construction of the first mosque in Witwatersrand, South Africa. Later, Churchward got married to an Egyptian woman, who was the daughter of one of the leading Shafi‘i jurists of Al-Azhar. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]Since his conversion to Islam, he had been thinking and feeling that he had not become fully integrated with Islam. Thus Churchward decided to go to Mecca to carry out the rites of Hajj in an effort to complete the Five Pillars of Islam. Abdulhakim Murad narrates Churchward's deep thoughts and feelings on going to Mecca through Churchward's own words: [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][B]‘One evening, as I strode along the looming Pyramid in the sunset, and saw the jagged skyline of Cairo behind the dreamy African dusk, I decided to carry through what I had intended to do ever since I turned a Moslem - I would go to the Kaaba at Mecca.'[/B] [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]It was the year 1910 and the politico-religious circumstances demanded him to prove his sincerity in his Islamic faith, since no Non-Muslim is allowed to enter the borders of Mecca. He was subjected to a three-hour examination by the Qadi of Egypt to determine the extent of his faith. After a successful exam, his ‘religious passport' was endorsed by the Qadi as well as the chief Ottoman cleric of the time and many leading scholars and imams to overcome the possible bureaucratic obstacles. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][IMG]http://www.lastprophet.info/en/images/stories/heberler/hedley_churchward3.jpg[/IMG]Churchward set out from South Africa (Johannesburg) for Mecca in 1910. He had an exhausting steamship journey via Bombay. There he arranged an old pilgrim ship, the SS Islamic which was captained by a fretful Scotsman and armed against pirates and made its way to the Red Sea. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]At the Sudanese port of Suakin, he paid a visit to the British Council and was informed that he would not be allowed to disembark at Jeddah. Yet, he was able to make it safely to Jeddah, where he contacted the Ottoman officials and encountered no problem. There he also communicated with his pilgrim guide and they set out for the Holy City with two donkeys in the following evening with Halley's Comet blinking them from the star-splendid sky. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]As Churchward has recorded, [B]"‘Against the stars I saw rock faces; we seemed to be trotting through a kind of canyon. Saving the fall of our donkeys' feet there was nothing to be heard, not even a jackal. ... Bang! Explosions suddenly rang from some place high in the dark hills. No mistake, those were rifle shots ... The growing brightness showed a very picturesque old building, a kind of tower several hundred feet above the road. From the steep path serving the structure some fez-adorned figures ran down. They wore uniforms and held guns in their hands.'[/B] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]These attacks by desert Arabs on pilgrims were common despite the efforts of the Ottoman officials. Yet Churchward was able to get through dangerous situations of the hot and exhausting trip successfully. Trusting that Allah will arrange everything for the best, they had finally arrived in the Holy Land. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]The first phase of Churchward's five-month journey to Holy Land was completed as Churchward and his companion set foot in Kaaba, the House of Allah. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]Mahmoud Churchward was the first British Muslim who saw the Kaaba in 1910 and was honoured by being the first British guest of Allah. [/SIZE][/FONT] [B][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000080][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/B] [B][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000080]Abdal Hakim Murad[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/B] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][B]Abdal Hakim Murad [/B]wasborn as Timothy J. Winter in 1960 in London is a British convert to Islam. He studied at the prestigious Westminster School in London, UK and later graduated with a double-first in Arabic from University of Cambridge in 1983. Then in Cairo, he studied Islam under traditional scholars at Al-Azhar for three years and then also spent an equal number of years in Jeddah where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with the Shaykh Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad, and Shaykh Ismail al-Adawi. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]In 1989, Abdal Hakim Murad returned to England and spent two years at the University of London learning Turkish and Farsi. Since 1992, he has been a doctoral student at Oxford University, specializing in the religious life (Sufi brotherhood) of the early Ottoman Empire. He was appointed lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge in 1996. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]Abdal Hakim Murad is the translator of a number of works, including two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali Ihya Ulum al-Din. He appears frequently on BBC Radio and writes occasionally for a number of publications including The Independent and Q-News International, Britain's premier Muslim Magazine; and [B][B]Seasons[/B][/B], the semi academic journal of [B][URL="http://www.zaytuna.org/"][B][COLOR=#000080]Zaytuna Institute[/COLOR][/B][/URL].[/B] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]Abdal Hakim Murad is currently the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London), Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe, President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Director of the Sunna Project at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University which has published the foremost scholarly Arabic editions of the major Sunni Hadith collections. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]He lives with his wife and children in Cambridge, UK. [/SIZE][/FONT] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000080]Abdal Hakim Murad[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [URL="http://www.lastprophet.info"][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]www.lastprophet.info[/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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