{"id":113862,"date":"2020-08-06T05:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T04:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/?p=113862"},"modified":"2020-08-06T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T04:31:24","slug":"a-lamp-in-the-shade-of-a-mountain-shaykh-seraj-hendricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/2020\/08\/06\/a-lamp-in-the-shade-of-a-mountain-shaykh-seraj-hendricks\/","title":{"rendered":"A lamp in the shade of  a mountain: Shaykh Seraj Hendricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113863\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/azzawia-institute\/a-lamp-in-the-shade-of-a-mountain-shaykh-seraj-hendricks\/10158185262466357\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113863\" src=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Shaykh-Seraj-Hendricks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Shaykh-Seraj-Hendricks.jpg 551w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Shaykh-Seraj-Hendricks-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Shaykh-Seraj-Hendricks-332x338.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaykh Seraj Hendricks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Dr Hisham Hellyer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allama, Shaykh Seraj Hassan Hendricks, returned to the mercy of his Lord on the 9th of July, 2020, in Cape Town, after decades of serving the Divine, His religion, and His Prophet. If not for the COVID19 restrictions, there would have been tens of thousands, undoubtedly, who would have attended his funeral prayer the following day at the mosque that his grandfather, the great Shaykh Muhammad Salih Hendricks, built in Cape Town, in the shadow of Table Mountain, a hundred years ago. Azzawia Institute, known as \u2018Azzavia\u2019 in local parlance, would have seen Muslims and non-Muslims alike, who would have known him as a father, a friend, a scholar, a teacher, a poet, and a shaykh of ta\u1e63awwuf. As for myself, he was all these things to me\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/azzawia-institute\/a-lamp-in-the-shade-of-a-mountain-shaykh-seraj-hendricks\/10158185262466357\/\"><em><strong>(Read more here&#8230;.)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VUiDfwZXqp\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imamsonline.com\/a-lamp-in-the-shade-of-a-mountain-shaykh-seraj-hendricks\/\">A Lamp In The Shade of a Mountain: Shaykh Seraj Hendricks<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;A Lamp In The Shade of a Mountain: Shaykh Seraj Hendricks&#8221; &#8212; Imams Online\" src=\"https:\/\/imamsonline.com\/a-lamp-in-the-shade-of-a-mountain-shaykh-seraj-hendricks\/embed\/#?secret=xD8r5jRlps#?secret=VUiDfwZXqp\" data-secret=\"VUiDfwZXqp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr Hisham Hellyer<br \/>\n\u201cThe allama, Shaykh Seraj Hassan Hendricks, returned to the mercy of his Lord on the 9th of July, 2020, in Cape Town, after decades of serving the Divine, His religion, and His Prophet. If not for the COVID19 restrictions, there would have been tens of thousands, undoubtedly, who would have attended his funeral prayer the following day at the mosque that his grandfather, the great Shaykh Muhammad Salih Hendricks, built in Cape Town, in the shadow of Table Mountain, a hundred years ago. Azzawia Institute, known as \u2018Azzavia\u2019 in local parlance, would have seen Muslims and non-Muslims alike, who would have known him as a father, a friend, a scholar, a teacher, a poet, and a shaykh of ta\u1e63awwuf. As for myself, he was all these things to me\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,75],"tags":[608],"class_list":["post-113862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-blog","tag-dr-hisham-hellyer","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113864,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113862\/revisions\/113864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}