Tajammul Gurmani
Rochdale
Chaudhry Muhammad Shabbir, General Secretary of Jamia Masjid Quba, Rochdale, passed away after a cardiac arrest. His funeral prayer was offered at Quba Mosque, and he was later laid to rest in a local graveyard. Among the bereaved are his brother Muhammad Nazir; his children, Makhdum Mustafa Shabbir, Tahira Shabbir, Sameera Shabbir, and Uzma Shabbir; his nephew, Aqib Nazir; and his brother-in-law, Chaudhry Muhammad Farooq.
Prominent attendees at the funeral included Chaudhry Tahir Mahmood, Chairman of Golden Mosque; Mushtaq Ahmed Raja, Chairman of Bilal Mosque; Haji Azeem, Haji Aftab Ahmed, Qari Abdul Rauf, Allama Ghulam Murtaza, and many others. Religious scholars paid tribute to the late Chaudhry Shabbir, stating that he served Quba Mosque with dedication for 13 years. They said that when he took responsibility, the mosque was under debt, which he cleared and also expanded. They added that serving the mosque was the main purpose of his life and would be a means of forgiveness for him.
He regularly offered prayers in the first row and devoted more time to the mosque than to personal matters.
