A Station of Light
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Please benefit from the following account by our beloved Uncle Shafiq Morton who accompanied Habib Umar during his recent visit to Cape Town, South Africa:
Media interviews can be predictable things. People who are famous for being famous can hardly utter a sentence. Those who are well-known might be worth a few sound bytes; and those who are really famous might, if you’re lucky, reveal something profound.
But interviewing people such as Habib Umar ibn Hafidh, a 39thgeneration descendent of the Prophet Muhammad (s), is another matter entirely. There is no need for what we in the journalistic trade call “hooks”.
Spiritual master, co-founder of Dar ul-Mustafa University, orator, philanthropist and traveller, the 47 year-old Habib Umar is impossible to distil into the columns, or the time-frames, of your standard media interview…
To read the profile write-up in full, please visit:
A Station of Light – Habib Umar ibn Hafiz’s historic visit to Cape Town
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