The Holy Prophet's Lineage

Prophet's Lineage


I, from the Ghaiaty's root and family (my mother's paternal side) am a direct descendant of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H.) - through his (favourite) uncle, Abu Taleb.

Hazrat Ibrahim Khalilullah(A.S.) is accredited for raising the foundation of Holy Kaa'ba - the first house made for mankind at Mecca. And remember Abraham and Isma'il raised the foundations of the House (With this prayer): "Our Lord! Accept (this service) from us: For Thou art the All-Hearing, the All-knowing. Holy Qur'an (2:127)

Hazrat Ibrahim Khalilullah(A.S.) and Hazrat Ismail Zabiullah(A.S.) constructed the house which has been a place of prayer for all times. There is a spot (Maqam-e-Ibrahim) near the Kaa'ba where Hazrat Ibrahim(A.S.) stood while erecting the Holy house and where he offered his prayers. Hazrat Ibrahim(A.S.) further prayed:

"Our Lord! make of us Muslims, bowing to Thy (Will), and of our progeny a people Muslim, bowing to Thy (will); and show us our place for the celebration of (due) rites; and turn unto us (in Mercy); for Thou art the Oft-Returning, Most Merciful. Holy Qur'an (2:128)
The above mentioned verse throws light on the fact that there had always been "true muslims" in his progeny. Hazrat Ibrahim(A.S.) further prayed:

"Our Lord! send amongst them a Messenger of their own, who shall rehearse Thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wisdom, and sanctify them: For Thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise." Holy Qur'an (2:129)

After four thousand years, God granted Hazrat Ibrahim's prayer and raised our Holy Prophet Muhammed(S.A.W.) from amongst them, as a answer to his prayer. The same thing has been quoted in the Holy Qur'an as follows:

It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered a messenger from among themselves, to rehearse to them His Signs, to sanctify them, and to instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom, although they had been, before, in manifest error; Holy Qur'an (62:2)

In the lineage of our Prophet Muhammed(S.A.W.) all are "true muslims". Hence from Adam(A.S.) to our Holy Prophet Muhammed(S.A.W.) all are "true muslims".

Allah did choose Adam and Noah, the family of Abraham, and the family of Imran above all people, Offspring, one of the other: And Allah heareth and knoweth all things. Holy Qur'an (3:33-34)

Adam

Sheth

Enos

Cainan

Mahalaleed

Jared

Enoch / Idris

Methuselah

Lamech

Noah / Nuh

Shem

Arhhazed

Salih / Saleb

Eber

Pelag

Rem

Serag

Nahor

Tarukh

Abraham / Ibrahim

Ishmael / Ismail
Brothers Isaac / Ishaq
Sabat

Jacob / Israil / Yaqub
Yashab

Lavi
Ba'rab

Qamat
Nakor

Imran
Adnan

Moses / Musa
Madh

Nazar

Imran (Is not in lineage of Moses/Musa)
Nasar

Mary/Maryam / Virgin mother of Jesus Christ
Elias / Iliyas /

Jesus / Christ / Isa

Kanana

Nafar

Maleeh

Fahar

Ghalib

Looi

Kaab

Murra

Kalab

Qosai

Abde Munaf

Hashim

Abdul Muttalib

Abdullah

Brothers Abu-Taleb /Muhammad(S.A.W.)

The Last Apostle of God / Ali son of Abu-Taleb

Fathima(S.A.)The Lady of Light - Married Ali(A.S.)The First Holy Imam

Hussain(A.S.)The Third Holy Imam

Brothers Hasan(A.S.)The Second Holy Imam

Zainulabiden(A.S.)The Fourth Holy Imam

Al-Baquir(A.S.)The Fifth Holy Imam

Al-Jaffer(A.S.)The Sixth Holy Imam

Al-Kazim(A.S.)The Seventh Holy Imam

Al-Reza(A.S.)The Eight Holy Imam

Al-Taqi(A.S.)The Ninth Holy Imam

Al-Naqi(A.S.)The Tenth Holy Imam

Al-Askari(A.S.)The Eleventh Holy Imam

Al-Mahdi(A.S.)Last, Alive & Awaited

(Hoda Nassef – from the holy lineage of sayedna Abu Taleb; maternal grandfather Aly Al-Ghaiaty)

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Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) Uncle’s Guardianship; Abu Taleb:

After the death of Abd El-Motaleb, Mohamed’s grandfather, he went into the care of his uncle Abu Taleb. Abu Taleb and Abd Allah Mohamed’s father were brothers to the same father and mother. Their mother was called Fatima Bent Amro.

Abu Taleb was a very kind and loving father to his orphan nephew Mohamed, and his wife was similar. He was not kind and loving to Mohamed as an orphan boy only, but this continued into Mohamed’s adulthood and until Abu Tale’s death.

Of the kindness of Abu Taleb to Mohamed was when Abu Taleb was travelling north to Syria for trade, Mohamed cried and sobbed to see his uncle departing, so much that Abu Taleb decided to take Mohamed with him on this tribe, in which some interesting events took place.

My Two Grandfathers!

Here is some information about my (famous) patriotic maternal grandfather, which you probably already know:


Sheikh Aly El-Ghaiaty; Ali Beh Nassef

Following is an article in Almasry Alyoum, concerning Grandfather Al-Gayaty.

تصحيح واجب فى ذكرى ثورة ١٩١٩١١/ ٣/ ٢٠٠٩
فى ذكرى ثورة ١٩١٩ من كل عام دأبت الصحف على رصد معطيات وتفاصيل وتداعيات ثورة الشعب، إشارة معظم هذه الصحف إلى مشهد من المظاهرات الصاخبة المنادية بعودة الزعيم سعد زغلول ورفاقه من المعتقل، هذا المشهد يجمع بين الهلال والصليب الشيخ على الغاياتى يداً بيد مع الأنبا سرجيوس.. لكنى أيقنت أن صاحب هذا الحدث بالتحديد هو الشيخ عبدالحليم قطيط وليس الشيخ الغاياتى..
الدليل على ذلك نجده فى كتاب «عصر ورجال» للأستاذ فتحى رضوان نقرأ فى صفحات ٣٠٨ - ٣١٠: سنة ١٩١١ غادر الغاياتى مصر إلى سويسرا، واستطاع أن يحصل على قوت يومه بتدريس اللغة العربية لبعض الشبان العرب.. ولما قامت الثورة المصرية سنة ١٩١٩ أخذ الغاياتى يدافع عنها ويدعو لها، وأصدر من جنيف جريدة «منبر الشرق» وعاد إلى مصر سنة ١٩٣٧.
ندرك من هذه الصياغة أن الغاياتى لم يكن موجوداً بمصر وقت اندلاع الثورة، مع الاعتراف بأنه أحد رموز الحركة الوطنية، وعندما أصدر ديوانه «وطنيتى» أجبرته السلطات على مغادرة مصر بسبب قصائد الديوان الملتهبة، فاختار سويسرا التى مكث بها ٢٦ سنة وتزوج سويسرية وأنجب خمسة أبناء.
أما الشيخ عبدالحليم قطيط فهو أيضاً من علماء وثوار الأزهر، عمل بالتدريس والدعوة والمحاماة والصحافة، وحملته الجماهير على الأعناق مع الأنبا سرجيوس تجسيداً للوحدة الوطنية، رددت الجماهير خلفهما الهتافات الوطنية.. بل أصيب الشيخ برصاصة فى يده خلال المظاهرات.. هذه المعلومة أقدمها طواعية إنصافاً للحقيقة.
Sheikh Aly Al Ghaiaty
تعليق
Hoda Mohamed Aly Nassef

تـاريخ
29th May 2009

Thank you for this article, but you have the details incorrect. Being the granddaughter of Sheikh Aly Al Ghaiaty (from Mrs. Monirah...a twin; her twin sister died when she was a year and a half old) there are some facts missing. However, it was nice and long overdue seeing my maternal grandfather mentioned again. By the way, his "Swiss" wife became a Moslem and changed her name upon marriage. She was actually the daughter of a Baroness, from the royal des Fabres family, of Spain

29 May 2009

Now here is to acquaint you a bit with my paternal grandfather, to be fair to my father!!!!

(El-Ghaiaty was a Patriot, Poet, Writer and Publisher of the first Arabic newspaper Mambar El-Shark, in Switzerland. The first page was done by hand, in Arabic, and the rest of the pages were printed in French. Whereas, Ali (Beh) Nassef was a landowner and was selected with the title of Beh by Sultan Fouad.)

Daddy's father was an actual Beh, by order of the King (Sultan Fouad). Grandfather had thousands of acres of land in and around Tanta, but lost them all. Furthermore, he is of Turkish descendants.

G. A. Chandru - An Indian in Japan

G. A. Chandru - An Indian's History in Yokohama


"The family I come from believes in the Hindu faith, and has its roots in the Sindh province, in what is now part of Pakistan…. Under British rule, the people of Sindh were encouraged to travel … and act as … go-betweens between various cultures, in particular in areas of trade and finance.Under these circumstances, my father was sent to Yokohama in 1917. He worked for my grandfather’s company Tarachand Parsram, and was sent to run the Japan branch which was located in Yokohama.”

G. A. Chandru relates the circumstances which led to the beginning of his family’s long history in Japan. An Indian resident whose personal history in Yokohama spans over 50 years, Chandru, the President of Nephews International, energetically details his family’s history as Indians in Yokohama.

Chandru’s father had moved to Yokohama in 1917 to manage a branch of his father’s business. However, after only three years he returned to India to aid in its struggle for independence from Britain. Thus, Chandru, who was born in 1924 in Sindh, never once laid eyes on Yokohama during his youth. Even so, during his childhood he held a great interest in Japan.

“I recall how [my father] talked about the very high social and cultural standards of Japan. Whenever someone came back from Japan we received 'Tombow’ pencils, fancy toys, and were shown the Japanese cameras. This created in our mind a very special admiration of Japan, of the beautiful designs and perfect performance in the products we saw.”

Chandru’s father came to and left Japan during a period when Indian trade of silk, cotton, and yarn was thriving; Indian traders had been active in Japan since the late 1800s.

The prospering Yokohama silk and textile trade would soon be thrown into crisis by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. The earthquake, of magnitude 7.9, left Yokohama in ruins, and in the earthquake’s aftermath, large numbers of Indians relocated to Kobe with the aid of the Kobe city and national governments.

However, a number of Indians later returned to Yokohama, and it is said that just before WWII, India was Japan’s third-largest trading partner, after the U.S. and China.

Merchants traded on slim profit-margins, turning profits only by moving large quantities of goods. They sold silk at-cost, earning money only on the sale of the wooden packing cases (petti) holding the silk, constructed from high-quality kiri wood.

The unfolding of WWII shook the Indian community and many left Japan, preferring that to the alternative of being interned in Japanese camps as British subjects.

After the end of the war in 1947, India’s newly-won independence from British rule triggered a religious conflict which tore the country into two: Pakistan, an Islamic state, and India, a secular state. Chandru’s family became subject to intense religious persecution in Pakistani Sindh, and was forced to abandon everything and take refuge in India. There, Chandru became responsible for supporting his parents and siblings, and he remembers this period as the saddest in his life.

The images of Japan were engraved in Chandru’s imagination, and in 1953 he sprang on an opportunity to try his luck in business in Japan. “I sensed a bright future [in Japan], a chance to work hard and have my hard work rewarded."

When Chandru arrived in 1953, though Yokohama was still rebuilding, Indian businesses had already planted firm roots. Chandru, who initially worked as the manager of an Indian trading firm located in Yamashita-cho, recalls his early years in Yokohama.

“I worked hard day and night for 6 years…. in my 7th year, I started my own firm…. I called the company Nephew’s International, taking the name from the company which my Uncle has started with his nephews (myself included) in India during the British rule."

Textiles and fabrics, mainly silk, remained significant exports through the 1950s; but they were later surpassed in popularity by synthetic textiles such as nylon. By the 1960s textiles had become less profitable, and the trade of electronics, technology goods and sundries became more common. In general, as Japanese industries expanded their global networks, the need for the middleman was eliminated, and slowly Indian businesses either moved abroad or west to Kobe and Osaka.

Thus by the 1980s, trading in Yokohama had slowed, and many Indians sold their properties in Yamashita-cho or converted them to apartment buildings and parking lots. Some moved to Kobe or Osaka, and others returned to India. Currently there are only a small number of “old-comer” Indian residents in Yokohama remaining; however, there has been a recent influx of Indians coming from the IT hubs of India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai) to work in software companies in Yokohama, as well as those who come through their work in multinational finance or engineering companies.
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Mr. G. A. Chandru is a family friend since 40 years.

h.n.

Oldest Woman in the World Dies at 115

AP – Edna Parker holds a rose that she was given
during a birthday party for her in Shelbyville, Ind., USA

The world's oldest person dies at 115

Indiana woman who was world's oldest person, died.
Thu Nov 27, 7:24 pm ET


SHELBYVILLE, Ind. – Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.

UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker's great-nephew notified him that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert Young, a senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records.

Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana's Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior.

Coles maintains a list of the world's oldest people and said Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history. Maria de Jesus of Portugal, who was born Sept. 10, 1893, is now the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

Parker had been a widow since her husband, Earl Parker, died in 1939 of a heart attack. She lived alone in their farmhouse until age 100, when she moved into a son's home and later to the Shelbyville nursing home.

Although she never drank alcohol or tried tobacco and led an active life, Parker didn't offer tips for living a long life. Her only advice to those who gathered to celebrate when she became the oldest person was "more education."

Parker outlived her two sons, Clifford and Earl Jr. She also had five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

Don Parker, 60, said his grandmother had a small frame and a mild temperament. She walked a lot and kept busy even after moving into the nursing home, he said. "She kept active," he said Thursday. "We used to go up there, and she would be pushing other patients in their wheelchairs."

Gov. Mitch Daniels celebrated with Parker on her 114th birthday.

"It was a delight to know Edna, who must have been a remarkable lady at any age," Daniels said.
Parker taught in a two-room school in Shelby County for several years after graduating from Franklin College in 1911. She wed her childhood sweetheart and neighbor in 1913.

But as was the tradition of that era, her teaching career ended with her marriage. Parker traded the schoolhouse for life as a farmer's wife, preparing meals for as many as a dozen men who worked on her husband's farm.

Parker noted with pride last year that she and her husband were one of the first owners of an automobile in their rural area.

Coincidentally, Parker lived in the same nursing home as 7-foot-7 Sandy Allen, whom Guinness recognized as the world's tallest woman until her death in August.