Maulana bilal bawa biography of martin

Name: Abdur Raheem, son of Mawlana Qari Dawood

Ancestral Name: Limbada

Place of Birth: Bodhan, Surat district, Gujarat, India

Ancestral Home: Umarwada, Bharuch district, Gujarat, India Limbada

Early Education:

Shaikh’s early education took place at his place of birth and at his father’s residential village of Bodhan.

His first teacher was Hadhrat Mawlana Munshi Gulam Muhammad Tai Sahib R.A. Thereafter, he completed his learning of the Qur’an at his ancestral home in Umarwada, together with his secular education and 4 levels of the Gujarati language.

Memorisation of the Holy Qur’an:

After learning to read the Qur’an, and on the instruction of his father, he enrolled at Madresah Sirajul Uloom, Matwaad, Navsari district, Gujarat.

Within a short period of 9-months he memorised 26 paras (juz) of the Qur’an with his teacher Hafiz Sufi Ahmad Karodiya Sahib at the tender age of 10 years.

In October 1972, his father migrated to England and became the Imam and Tea