Hassan Abbas elected KSA Dammam-Khobar unit president

Dammam: It was a moment of enthusiasm for the members of the Karnataka Salafi Association (KSA), Dammam-Khobar Unit May 8. The hall in the restaurant was packed with old and new members from Karnataka residing in Dammam area in Saudi Arabia.

The 16th annual general body meeting of the Association was called and presided over by the outgoing president Mohammed Ismail Babbukatte. Shaik Sameer Ahmed, Bengaluru, who is also the chairman of Peace and Education Research Center, Bengalaluru, compered.

Meeting started with the recitation of Quran and translation of the same by Sheikh Sadiq Salafi.

Ismail Babbukatte spoke about the activities of Association for the past 16 years and the achievement statistics to the members. He also produced the financial report for the year 2014/2015.

Karnataka Salafi Association has been working for the welfare of Muslims in Saudi Arabia by setting up two English Medium Madrassas in Khobar and Dammam, which are first of its kind in Saudi Arabia. Members have participated in relief and rehabilitation work in India too and also actively participated in setting up an Islamic TV channel in India in the name of I plus TV.

Weekly classes are being conducted in Alkhobar in Byari, Kannada, Urdu languages for several years with the participation of entire families connected with the association. Annual Umrah and Ramadhan Iftar party for the families are regular events. Publication and Printing of knowledge based books is also one of the works accomplished by the association.

Later the existing committee was dissolved by the outgoing president and Mohammed Liyaqhat was chosen Returning Officer to conduct the election for the new committee members. As many as 31 members were elected and the new executive committee was formed.

Outgoing president has signed the transfer formalities of the Association to the new committee under the supervision of returning officer Mohammed Liyaqhat.

All the members were briefed about their duties and responsibilities. Accordingly a meeting was scheduled for the committee on the next day. The new members have shown great amount of enthusiasm to work for the Association and given commitments to uphold the methodology of pious predecessors in understanding and following the true spirit of Islam.

Advocate Abdul Hameed Padubidri, Sheikh Burhan Nadwi, senior NRI Sibghatullah Saheb, Ahmed Hussain Padubidri were present in the meeting.

New executive committee meeting

The first meeting of new executive committee was held on May 9, in Apsara Restaurant, Al Khobar at 9 p.m. All the 31 members were present.

Meeting was presided over by Sheikh Sadiq Salafi. Sheikh Burhan Nadwi and Br.Mohammed Liyaqhat were present in the dais. Sheikh Sadiq Salafi gave 10 minutes speech on importance of upholding Quran, sunnah and manhaj of Salaf, and to work unitedly for the pleasure of Allah. Election to the new office bearers post was done and the following were chosen for the posts as office bearers.

Name/Designation
Sheik Sadiq Salafi/ Sharia Advisor
Ismail Babbukatte/ Senior Advisor
Gouse Khan/ Advisor
Hassan Abbas/ President
Mohammed Liyaqhat/ Vice President
Sibgatulla Abdul Kareem/ Vice President
Abdul Hameed M H/ General Secretary
Shaikh Sameer Ahmed/ Joint Secretary
Ehthesham Shimogga/ Joint Secretary
Mustafa Patla/ Treasurer
Basheer Sagar/ Joint Treasurer
Althaf Hussain/ Joint Treasurer
P.M Sharief/ Dawah Committee Secretary
Khalifa Mustafa/ Media Committee Secretary
Adil Hassan Abbas/ Executve Committee Members
Karkala Arif/ Executve Committee Members
Haneef Abbas Saheb/ Executve Committee Members
Khalid Sharief/ Executve Committee Members
Ashraf Sowkoor Kashim/ Executve Committee Members
Mohammed Hanif K/ Executve Committee Members
Zameer Ahmed/ Executve Committee Members
Mohammed Ayub/ Executve Committee Members
Fayaz Ahmed/ Executve Committee Members
Ibrahim Hussain/ Executve Committee Members
Muzammil/ Executve Committee Members
Sheik Abbas/ Executve Committee Members
Mudassir/ Executve Committee Members
Abdul Rahim/ Executve Committee Members
Kudur Hassan Bilal/ Executve Committee Members
Ashfaq/ Executve Committee Members
Aatif Hameed/ Executve Committee Members
Syed Thousif / Executve Committee Members

Few independent sub committees were formed. They are: Madrassa Committee Dammam, Madrassa Committee Khobar, Dawah Committee, and Media and Communication Committee. Hassan Abbas, Basheer Sagar, Mustafa Patla, Sharief Yennehole, Abdul Hameed M H and Shaik Sameer Ahmed were chosen as the members of all the sub committees.