History of Khalfan Family - Revision history

Mohamedali: /* Death */

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‎Death

Mohamedali: /* Closure of Businesses */

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‎Closure of Businesses

Mohamedali: /* First Husain Day in Zanzibar */

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‎First Husain Day in Zanzibar

Mohamedali: /* Jaffery Sports Club - Mombasa */

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‎Jaffery Sports Club - Mombasa

Mohamedali: /* A Beginning of Entrepreneurship in Industry */

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‎A Beginning of Entrepreneurship in Industry

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‎A Beginning of Entrepreneurship in Industry

Mohamedali: /* First Birth in Africa - 1860 */

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‎First Birth in Africa - 1860

Mohamedali: /* Migration of Khalfan Family from India in 1835 */

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‎Migration of Khalfan Family from India in 1835

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	When Abdulrasul Khalfan died at the age of 57 in 1944, in Zanzibar while in the post of the Hujjat Jamaat President,, the Kuwwat Jamaat and the Hujjat Jamaat both jointly in an unprecedented spirit of brotherhood and as a joint mark of mourning declared closure of all business activities in the community for his burial ceremony which took place in the morning hours before noon. Abdulrasul Khalfan was known to have raised at different times in Zanzibar some orphan girls who had lost both parents. Incidentally, the deceased parents were from the Kuwwat Jamaat. One of the girls when adult was married within the family. At the request of the members of the Hujjat Jamaat, Abdulla Khalfan took over the post of President to complete his brother’s tenure.		When Abdulrasul Khalfan died at the age of 57 in 1944, in Zanzibar while in the post of the Hujjat Jamaat President,, the Kuwwat Jamaat and the Hujjat Jamaat both jointly in an unprecedented spirit of brotherhood and as a joint mark of mourning declared closure of all business activities in the community for his burial ceremony which took place in the morning hours before noon. Abdulrasul Khalfan was known to have raised at different times in Zanzibar some orphan girls who had lost both parents. Incidentally, the deceased parents were from the Kuwwat Jamaat. One of the girls when adult was married within the family. At the request of the members of the Hujjat Jamaat, Abdulla Khalfan took over the post of President to complete his brother’s tenure.

−	This life is but a fleeting moment and yet death is faster in overtaking - often sooner than later; and generations in succession vanish from the scene like they never existed. What we were in the sight of Allah (swt), and not who we were in the sight of men, was important if only this was known to us all before death struck	+	This life is but a fleeting moment and yet death is faster in overtaking - often sooner than later; and generations in succession vanish from the scene like they never existed. What we were in the sight of Allah (swt), and not who we were in the sight of men, was important if only this was known to us all before death struck. Alhaj Abdulla Khalfan was the father of [[Mohamed Khalfan]] (Dar es Salaam) and Alhaj Abdulrasul Khalfan was the grandfather of Aunali Kassamali Khalfan (Dar es Salaam).
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−	Alhaj Abdulla Khalfan was the father of [[Mohamed Khalfan]] (Dar es Salaam) and Alhaj Abdulrasul Khalfan was the grandfather of Aunali Kassamali Khalfan (Dar es Salaam).

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 When Abdulrasul Khalfan died at the age of 57 in 1944, in Zanzibar while in the post of the Hujjat Jamaat President,, the Kuwwat Jamaat and the Hujjat Jamaat both jointly in an unprecedented spirit of brotherhood and as a joint mark of mourning declared closure of all business activities in the community for his burial ceremony which took place in the morning hours before noon. Abdulrasul Khalfan was known to have raised at different times in Zanzibar some orphan girls who had lost both parents. Incidentally, the deceased parents were from the Kuwwat Jamaat. One of the girls when adult was married within the family. At the request of the members of the Hujjat Jamaat, Abdulla Khalfan took over the post of President to complete his brother’s tenure.

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 With this unprecedented close relation between the two Jamaats, they were able to get the Zanzibar government to sanction release of rice and cooking oil for Muharram Niaz when there was in place a strict rationing system of essential food commodities during the later part of the Second World War. Importations were restricted and irregular. Zanzibar as compared to other towns in Africa had the highest population of Khoja Shia Ithna Ashris numbering almost 5000.
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+==First Husain Day (Zanzibar)==
 The other dividend from the close relation between the two Jamaats was the first occasion of Husain Day held in Old Portuguese Fort facing the Forodhani Gardens at the seafront in Stone Town of Unguja, It was organized by the two Jamaats jointly in 1945. It was a grand occasion where Crown Prince Abdullah represented the Sultan of Zanzibar. Invited also were the high ranking British officials and dignitaries from various local communities.
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 In order to ensure that Husain Day became a regular grand annual function under the joint auspices of the two Jamaats, regardless who the respective leaders were, Abdulla Khalfan, with the consent of the President of the Kuwwat Jamaat handed over the role of organizing Husain Day to Ithna-Asheri Volunteers Corp which was affiliated to the Kuwwat Jamaat. The Corp never failed the community in this expectation.
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 In the meantime, a similar soap industry with a number of copra oil expellers was established on a large scale in Zanzibar in 1932. When the exports of coconut oil were allowed for the first time in 1950s, after decades of restriction, and the export business became booming, a few new parties entered into this sector of industry and with that entered the unethical practices in the export business. The oil was exported in second hand drums and the short weight found at the ports of destination was treated wholly as leakage occurring in the course of shipment. As leakage was insured, the importers suffered no loss. The family business could not stand against this type of unethical competition involving invoicing on inflated custom shipment weight, and the short arrivals were assessed wholly as leakage; therefore, the business operation of the family was suspended in 1959 after the attempts to get the authorities to redress the situation proved fruitless.  However, later the factory, while inactive, was nationalized, like those of others, soon after the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964. The fifth and sixth generations are now in various sectors of economic occupation in certain countries; some are still in Tanzania and Kenya while many others are long settled in the West. They too bear the name of Khalfan of Lamu of 1835 as their surname.
-==Jaffery Sports Club - Mombasa==
+==Jaffery Sports Club (Mombasa)==
 Abdulla Khalfan together with his three friends in sports, Alhaj [[Habib Abdulla Janmohamed]], Alhaj Hassanali Gulamhusein Khaki and Alhaj Hussein Karim Hirji were the four founders of the Jaffery Sports Club in about the year 1922. Abdulla was not able to continue his interest in sports after he had completed his two years term as Chairman of the Club in 1926 because of the pressure of the family business. Later other prominent members of the community in Mombasa also played their various roles to bring the club to the prestigious state that it has been for decades now.

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 Abdulrasul took the job of a broker with a large long established reputable commercial British company; called Smith, Mackenzie & Company which, apart from being a shipping agent, imported various items of daily consumption and had its Branch offices and agents spread in the interior mainland for marketing the imports.
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 Mohamed, son of Khalfan, married one Lidubai whose paternal lineage of four past generations is remarkably still known as Hema Parpia Hedau Devani. There are a few families in East Africa whose paternal lineage from the present generation of the youngest child, is traced to the same Devani. It is rare to know the names in a lineage of past 11 generations spanned over three centuries. In the case of the forefathers of Mohamed, son of Khalfan, some had lived in Jamnagar and others later in Bhavnagar.
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+==First Birth in Africa==
 Mohammed, son of deceased Khalfan had his first son born in Zanzibar in 1860, and named him Ali. He was the first East African born in the family. When Ali grew up he engaged himself as a broker-cum-trader with good contacts with the local importers and exporters. With the ruling market knowledge on his finger tips, the Sultan of the time, most probably Sayyid Sir Hamad bin Thuwaini Al-Busaid (1893-1896) and later Sayyid Sir Hamoud bin Mohammed Al-Said (1896-1902) would seek information from Ali, among few others, regarding the market trends.

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