JUMABHAI HAJI

 

Murabbi Jumabhai Haji lives in simplicity; he is one of the renowned businessmen of Tanganyika.

 

He established and is the director of Ms Juma Haji & Co Ltd.

 

Murabbi Jumabhai was born in Hindustan, in the town of Lalpur in Kathiawad. After pursuing the basic education there, he travelled to Dar-es-salaam at the age of 18 years and worked at his paternal uncle's textile shop.

 

In 1910 he started his own textile business. In 1921 he extended branches in Kindoo (Congo) and Albertville.  After this his business really boomed, presently he has established several businesses like sisal estate, rice mills and cotton ginnery.

 

Murabbi Jumabhai even contributes in other public institutes.

 

In 1930 he served as the secretary of Dar-es-salaam jamat, he was then elected as a trustee in 1938 and was released from this post in 1953.

 

He was then elected as the first president of Tanganyika Educational Council in 1953 and continued even after the completion of Dar boarding up to 1957.At present he is one of the trustees of the Educational council's properties. Moreover he served as the vice president of Dar Indian Merchant of Chamber for two years.

 

Haji Jumabhai is very generous and has spent in several charities. One of them is Ebrahim Haji Dispensary in Dar-es-salaam built in 1950 in his late younger brother's name. Recently he also donated a lump sum amount of shs 42,000/- to Muslim Institute in Mombasa for building an assembly hall. The Supreme Council named this hall after his late brother as Ebrahim Haji assembly hall.

 

EBRAHIMBHAI HAJI

 

The younger brother of Jumabhai Haji, Ebrahimbhai was also born in 1892 in Lalpur  and after pursuing the basic education there he came to Dar-es-salaam in 1910 and joined in one of the branches of his elder brother’s business. Ebrahimbhai sincerely helped his brother in establishing the business branches in Congo; one would hardly agree to do so due the destabilized situation over there.

 

It was through the hard work and efforts of Ebrahimbhai that they succeeded. Later several families were established there.

 

He has also contributed towards the establishment of Federation. Ebrahimbhai served as Dar-es-salaam jamat president from 1942 to 1946 and before that he was the secretary of the jamat.

 

Furthermore he was elected as the vice president of Dar-es-salaam Merchant Chamber of Commerce

 

 

Translated by; F. Ali.

Extracted from Community Trade Directory 1960    

 

The Archives Team has learnt of the sad demise of Maulana KhalilAbbas in India on Sunday 20^th July 2008.

 

Maulana KhalilAbbas serve Bukoba Jamaat for 15 years and then Bujumbura for 12 years and later migrated to U.K., where he served for 10 years.  Maulana was a very knowledgeable personality and did a lot of tabligh with the local people in Bukoba and Bujumbura.

 

Sura-e-Fateha is requested

 

Pictured Left to Right: Mohamedali Sheriff Jiwa, Maulana Khalil Abbas, Abdallah Fazal and Mohamedali Kermali

 

The Archives Team also requests for Sura-e-Fateha for Marhum Zulfikar Khimji, Past Chairman of Africa Federation who passed away on 18^th July 2008  

 
            

Members of the Community are requested to forward this to contacts on their mailing list.

Any suggestions/comments can be sent to federation@raha.com