Ramadhan Foundation
Contact: Mohammed Shafiq
07989 764624
Embargo: Immediate Saturday 4th
August 2012 00:00
Death of Mohammed Iqbal
Published: Saturday 4th August 2012
00:00
Mohammed Iqbal, pictured
in the centre during visit by HE Shaykh
Syed Ali Hashmi in Rochdale in 2010
Shaykh Muhammad Umar bin Ramadhan,
Chairman of the Ramadhan Foundation
comments:
“Mohammed Iqbal who has died today was a
towering figure within the Muslim
community and a real inspirational to
the Ramadhan Foundation when we set up
in 2005. He was a simple man with a
simple mission in life, to promote
tolerance and peace. It was with these
principles that he lived his life and
always using any opportunity to help
others, whether that be the poor
homeless man or more recently buying
trainers for youngsters in Moss Side.
The Ramadhan Foundation was blessed with
his advice, support and guidance which
he often gived in his forthright and
passionate way, I am indeed grateful to
God that he blessed us with such a
honourable and decent man. During our
first Muslim Unity Convention in 2005 he
engaged the Police and Manchester City
Council about the vision of the
Convention and provided real leadership
when we were under immense challenges.
As Muslims we all hope and pray we have
our death in the blessed month of
Ramadhan, he was such a blessed person
that he died in Ramadhan and on the
blessed day of Friday within the Mosque.
His legacy will live on in the hundreds
of people he helped and in all the work
we do in the Ramadhan Foundation.
On behalf of the Ramadhan Foundation I
want to offer my deepest condolences and
prayers to his family and to the wider
community, we have indeed lost a giant
servant of the community. We will never
forget him.”
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Notes for editors
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The Ramadhan Foundation is a leading
Muslim organisation in the UK that
is working for peaceful co-existence
and dialogue for all communities.T
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The Ramadhan Foundation has issued
advice and guidance to over 1500
Mosques and Islamic Centres in the
UK alerting them to the increased
threat from right wing extremism and
in light of Norway attacks.
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Based in Greater Manchester and
working to also establish the
platform for human unity amongst our
communities in the UK
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Shaykh Muhammad Umar bin Ramadhan is
chairman of the Ramadhan Foundation,
international speaker and regular
contributor to many media
programmes.
