Bashirbhai Kassam arrived in Leicester from Dar-es-salaam on 23 October 1965 and was later joined by his family in 1966. During that time, majalis were being held at their family home, every Thursday night, as there were no other Ithna-Asheri families that had settled in Leicester during this time.
It is with great interest and enthusiasm that I read the Federation Samachar April 2013 issue especially the feature on Allamah Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi the much loved personality. Marhum was indeed deeply involved in the Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania. Memories flooded back as I was reading the article. Consequently, I could not resist but to add to the tribute to Marhum Allamah as to what I had captured of his great character as a teenager in Dar-es-Salaam in the early sixties.
This website has been created to provide a collection of some of the works of Marhum Azadali Jafferali Kassam including speeches, eulogies and published articles.