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Africa Federation Archives - The Legendary - MohamedRaza Virjee

THE LEGENDARY - MOHAMEDRAZA VIRJEE

Mohamedraza Virjee, famously known as Raza Virjee, was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 17^th July 1935. He is the son of Abdulrasul Gulamhussein Virjee and Shirinbai (daughter of Suleman Daya Walji). His father Abdulrasul was born in 1914 in Mombasa, Kenya. Abdulrasulbhai was a great sportsman and played cricket for Kenya. He was a right arm fast bowler who opened the bowling for Mombasa Jaffery in 1930's.

He moved to Dar es Salaam in 1933 and got married and was blessed with six children, four sons and two daughters namely; Ali, Mohamed Raza, Mohsin, Hasnain, Kanize Fatema and Raziya. He led the first ever Ithna-Asheri team in the DSM League Cricket. After retiring from active cricket, he served the Dar es Salaam Cricket Club in various capacities being its first Chairman in 1952 and he also took active interest in coaching the youngsters.

Bilal Bulletin - BMM Tanzania - Mahe Ramadhan 1439 AH Report

AFED Census Exercise

Census is the key to unlocking our future development and the results will benefit the community for years to come. We cannot over-emphasise that this is an important exercise that AFED has undertaken in all our centres in Africa. The information we can gather from this census, will greatly help us in planning for our future.

Have you filled the Census Form? Click below

www.africafederation.org/census

Bilal Tanzania - Muharram 1440 AH Appeal

Bilal Bulletin - BMM Kenya - EU Program in Miamba Centre

Bilal Muslim Mission of Kenya organized a 5 day module 1 training also known as Leadership and savings training for Mujtaba women group in Miamba centre from 24^th-28^th July 2018. Sessions on Islamic Religious Education were also held during the training which was facilitated by Sis. Mariga Kuto. The average attendance of participants per day was 22.

Bilal Bulletin - BMM Kenya - EU Program in Kichaka Centre

Bilal Muslim Mission of Kenya organized a three day Refresher training course for Swabrina and Shufaiyya women group at Kichaka centre from 19^th-21^st July 2018. These trainings have been proving to be playing an essential role to empower the women in the local community. All Sessions in this training were facilitated by Sis Sidi Nyota and Sis Kauchi Chifui.

Various topics on Islamic Religious Education were also conducted by Sis. Hadija Kamanza. This was done to broaden their religious knowledge.

Moon Forecast - Muharram 1440 AH

CIRCULAR NO: JMT/149/18

MOON FORECAST – MUHARRAM 1440 A.H.

The forecast for the Crescent of 1^st Muharram 1440 A.H. is as follows: - (Please note that the forecast is based for Dar-es-Salaam and all timings are D’Salaam local time, other towns in the West should make necessary adjustments depending upon the time of sunset).

The birth of the Astronomical New Moon is at 9.03 a.m. on Sunday 9^th September 2018 i.e. 28^th Zilhajj 1439 A.H.

On Monday 10^th September 2018, the age of the New Moon after the Sun has set is:

Sunset	6.21 p.m.
Crescent age at Sunset	21 hours 18 minutes
Moonset	7.10 p.m.
Time Duration	49 minutes
Crescent Elongation at Sunset	11.86 degrees
Moon Altitude at Sunset	11.04 degrees

SIGHTING IS POSSIBLE

The best time to observe the crescent is when the sun is 5 degrees below the horizon at 6.38 p.m., when the crescent will Insha’Allah be 5 degrees North of West, 1 degree North of where the sun had set.

EXPECT 1^st MUHARRAM 1440 AH ON TUESDAY 11^TH SEPTEMBER 2018.

Secretariat

Bilal Bulletin - BMM Tanzania - Tanga Branch Zilkaad Report

Press Release - Vice Chairman of Mwanza Jamaat Meets AFED Office Bearers in Dar es Salaam

Ref: AF/PR/53/2018

On Thursday, 16^th August 2018 the office bearers of the Africa Federation (AFED) had the honor to welcome Alhaj Mohamed Moledina, Vice Chairman of KSI Mwanza Jamaat in the Secretariat office in Dar Es Salaam.

It was a good opportunity to meet and to discuss various subjects of common interest of the Jamaat and AFED, also on the current trends and challenges we face in Africa, similarly in other parts of the world.

Various subjects were covered during the meeting, including the current economic challenges faced by the community in several parts of Tanzania, including Mwanza.