Shaykh Seraj Hendricks: The passing of a South African Muslim icon

When Shaykh Seraj Hendricks of Cape Town passed away early this month, aged 64, his close friend, confidante, and renowned South African public figure himself, Shafiq Morton, wrote: “he had to be a man for all people at all times.”

I knew exactly what Shafiq meant – because my own relationship with this mountain, who grew up in the shade of so many other peaks, bore that out very well.

I first came across this South African icon, as a young man, close to two decades ago. It was fascinating to see thisproduct of a hundred-year-old tradition, be so erudite about the contemporary, while being so rooted in a classical religious tradition of Islamic thought.

The opening of the article. The full text is at TRT World.