REMEMBERING MY LATE FATHER ON HIS 103RD BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

REMEMBERING MY LATE FATHER ON HIS 103RD BIRTH ANNIVERSARY


Hameem Meedin was born to AJJONE MEEDIN and Devinona Inga on 2nd April 1913.He had two brothers Tuan Deenon (father of Ted, late Raja, Mrs Binthayon Saldin, late Mrs. Farina Salim and late Mrs Shaheed); Tuan Jamaldeen (father of Allenson and Marina) and a sister( mother of Mrs Bintaree Samahon and Tuan Naeem Mohamed

He received his education at St Thomas College, Mt. Laviniaduring the glorious period of the most respected Warden Stone.Ceylon being under British rule during World War Two, Hameem Meedin enlisted in the Royal Ordnance Force and was posted to the North African theatre under the Allied forces. This gave him the opportunity to see historically ancient lands of Egypt, Palestine and Jordan.
On his return he had worked in many places completing his 26 years career at Walker and Greig as a Stenographer

.He married Farina Jayah the fourth child of Tuan Arifin and Sulaiya Jayah in 1949. He was blessed with a son and a daughter.Hameem and Farina Meedin had lived in Fountain House Lane, Vauxhall Lane and finally at Akbar Town where he resided from 1973 till his death.

On his retirement he became extremely religious and would never miss his Salat in congregation at the Akbar town and later Roseviĺla mosques after having been a keen follower of the Subud movement earlier on. To my recollection he had never missed the full monthly course of Fasting in Ramadhan till his demise and never failed to recite the Quran daily.He even attended many Dawah gatherings during the latter stages of his lifetime.

He had the fortune of seeing 4 grandchildren and would have been most happy to witness his grandson becoming a Hafiz of Koran from the Darul Quran Madrasa and 2 grandchildren entering the Sri Lankan universities to finish their Engineering and Applied Science degrees.

But Allah willed otherwise and Hameem Meedin was called to enter the eternal abode of no return -the threshold to the Hereafter on 6th June 1996 (Inna lillahi Wa Inna ILLAIHI rajioon).His Janaza took place before Friday prayers at the Akbar Town Muslim Burial Grounds.

May Almighty Allah through His mercy grant my beloved father Jannathul Firdhouse..Aameen!!