Imtiaz sooliman biography

Dr Imtiaz Sooliman was born in Potchefstroom, in the North West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-oBOHqbrvA. It has been carefully threading a tightrope; its secular stance sometimes hurts its ability to fundraise within the Muslim community, while emphasizing its “Muslimness” may impact its ability to raise funds in the larger non-Muslim society. Prinesha Naidoo, ‘South Africa’s unemployment rate is now highest in the world,’ Bloomberg, 24 August 2021.

Victims are amazed how our teams touch them, hug them and show them so much compassion.”[8] 

It has been carefully threading a tightrope; its secular stance sometimes hurts its ability to fundraise within the Muslim community, while emphasizing its “Muslimness” may impact its ability to raise funds in the larger non-Muslim society.

GOG has fared relatively well despite competition for zakat (obligatory charity) from other Muslim aid organizations and the economic downturn in South Africa.

He has argued that it is imperative for Muslims to work with like-minded people of all faiths and backgrounds to achieve a sustainable future based on sound ethical conduct. Rather, for him, Islam stands as the much needed counter to materialism, extravagant consumption, and making money – ‘Mammon'”

Dr. During the war, he helped form the Gulf War Relief Fund, which solicited material support for victims of the war.

Alongside his studies and his medical work and throughout his life, Sooliman has been involved in several associations, religious organisations and school-governing bodies progressively as a student, medical doctor and an active member of civil society.

In 1992, he founded the Gift of the Givers Foundation, and has since then delivered more than R160 million in a 13-year period to 22 countries, including South Africa.

It is from out of this challenging economic environment that the relief organization The Gift of the Givers (GOG) and its founder Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman have emerged to capture the imagination of many in the country. In declaring Sooliman Social Justice Champion for 2021, the Law Trust Chair at Stellenbosch University stated that he had “moved the needle consistently to advance equality and reduce poverty,… has shown a commitment to justice as justice for all, while galvanizing others to pull together in a socially cohesive manner.” During the Friday Jumuah prayer at the Masjidul Quds in Cape Town on 24 December 2021, the Imam asked Dr.

Sooliman what these awards meant to him. GOG “bears witness” not through public statements but through its very public work in responding to everyday crises. Dr. Sooliman was astonished to find “people of all colours, races and religious beliefs” in attendance. This is important in a context where Islam is all too often labelled as insular and sectarian.

For him, Islam is a religion of the world whereas nationalism is human-made. Its founder Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman was born in Potchefstroom in the North-West province in 1962. He responded under the banner of the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) to provide aid to Bangladesh when a cyclone struck the country in 1991, the most severe in its history.

What proved life-changing was Dr.

Sooliman’s meeting with Shaykh Saffer Effendi al-Jerrahi in Turkey in August 1991. Dr. Sooliman has pushed back against this critique.“

In some quarters, GOG has also come under fire for its international relief efforts since ‘charity begins at home’. Life should not be reduced to pre-paid electricity and water cards.