Sri Lanka
Muslim Family Genealogy
0 Yousuf Lebbe
Marikar
1
Mohideen Abdul Cader
3
Razi Mohamed + Ayesha
Marikar (251)
4
Ifthiquar Haroun Mohamed, b:1944 + Gail Anderson
5
Tia Farina Mohamed + Thomas Owen (div)
5
2nd spouse of Tia Farina Mohamed: + John Allen
6
Jade Maya Allen
5
Tarus Mohamed
5
Hyla Farina Mohamed +
6
Seth Allan Ryan
4
Abusha Niloufer Mohamed + Martin York
5
Tarick Rishad York
5
Rasick Mickael York
4 Isthiaq
Rashard Mohamed, + Prasanna Reddy
3
[2] Honeya Mohamed, d:2013 + Abdullah
S Mohamed (251)
4
Alavi Mohamed + Amrita Fernando
4
[3] Shaela Farina Ibrahim
3
Khadija (Katie) Mohamed, b:1919, d:Oct 21 2014 + Abdul
Majeed Marikar, b:10/7/1914, d:30/10/1984 (251)
4
Fathima Begum Fowziya Marikar, Qualaified from Trinity College
of Music in Piano and taught in
5
Bashar Wahab, b:31-Aug-1964 + Sabeena
6
Haseena Wahab, b:1987 (Adopted daughter)
6
Natasha Wahab, b:1997)
3
*2nd spouse of Khadija (Katie) Mohamed, b: 1919, d:Oct 21 2014:
+ Marzook
MSM b:Jun 19, 1919 - d:2003 (106)
4
Mohamed Ifthikar (Chicka) Marzook + Haleema Hameed (div)
5
Yashar Marzook + Michelle
5
Fazeena Marzook + Irfan Thassim
4
Shiraz (Sherry) Marzook + Feroza
Salih (236)
5
Ghazala Marzook + Firaz (div)
5
Nickshan Marzook + Name Not Known
4
Mohamed Zihini Marzook + Zareena Salih
5
Nabeel Marzook
5
Namik Marzook + Name Not Known
5
2nd spouse of Namik Marzook + Name Not Known
5
3rd spouse of Namik Marzook + Rusla
Ismail (111)
4
Azmina (Mimi) Marzook + Ifthikar Asgar
5
Tania Asgar
4
Khartoon (Kathy) Marzook + Ismail
Jiffrey Mohideen (div) d:2003 (10)
4
*2nd Spouse of Khartoon (Cathy) Marzook: + Peter
Jackson
3
Hussain Sadiq Mohamed 1919 + Azile Gwyneth Williams 1923
4
Sadiq Dawood (David) Mohamed 1950
4
Hussain Rafi Mohamed 1952 + Catherine Anne Baker 1947
5
Stefan Rafi Mohamed
4
Rashad Mohamed 1955
4
Saleema (Sally) Mohamed 1961
3
Hassan Mohamed + Ayesha
Marikar (251), married in Australia after 1991
3
Zahra Mohamed 1926-1981 + Mouhsin
Wahid, Captain 1926 (106)
4
Mehran Wahid, Captain 1955- + Kuraisha Hamid 1959-
5
Aniqah Wahid 1988-
5
Haris Wahid 1994-
4
Imran Wahid, Captain 1957- + Frayal Abdeen
5
Tasha Wahid 1984
5
Aron Wahid 1993
5
Zak Wahid
4
Karen Wahid 1958 + Shanti Bahar, Cmdr 1954-1993
5
Kashan Bahar 1982
4 Jabir Shariff
+ Nihlathul Imthiaza
a. Mohamed
Fiyaz
+ Fathima Azra
i. Aadhila
ii. Adeeb
b. Fathima
Inas
+ Sabry Hafeel
i. Ahamed
Arshaq
ii. Fathima
Shahla
4 Shafi Shariff
+ Azhara Mukthar (30,70)
a. Zakraf
Shafi + Thameena
b. Ashfaq
+ Shameema
c. Shaira
+ Shariq
4 Mazeena Shariff
+ Shuhaib Ghouse
a. Farah
Ghouse
b. Shirani
Ghouse
c. Zakraf
Ghouse
4 Lareefa Shariff
4 Ummu Zohra
Shariff + Izzet Packir Saibo
a. Riyas
Packir Saibo + Mazeena
b. Hisham Packir
Saibo
+ Niroza
i. Asma
ii. ….
iii.
4 Noor Mueeza
Shariff + Fuard Thahir (78)
a. Zameena Fuard
+
Shah Nawaz Othman
i. Name
Not
Known
b. Fathima
Rifka Fuard + Ghouse
i. Safiya
Ghouse
+ Mohamed
Shakir
Hashim (30, 10)
i.a Leena Aamina
Shakir (born in Melbourne)
ii. Umer
Ghouse
4 Nazly Shariff
+ Mohamed Samsudeen Izzet Wahid, d:Dec-20-2002
a. Fazly Wahid
+
Shaheeda
b. Ali Wahid
+ Nazmiya
i. Saleeha
4 Hassan Shariff
+ Shireen Kuthdoos (65)
a. Nihla
b. Thasneem
4 Hussain Shariff +
Hirziya (Rizvi
Bookshop – Colombo 06 in mid 1950’s, adjacent to Mirbaha
Stores)
4 Muhsin Shariff +
Fareena Muhsin
a. Farzana
+ Athif Bawa
i. Amani
ii. Haroon
b. Ousman
+ Thanzila Faraz
i. Amna
ii. Alina
iii. Suleiman
4 Reza Shariff
+
a.
4 Imtiaz Shariff
+
4 Fowzil Anver + Nawaz Cassim (40)
4 Fahim Anver
4 Fathima Yasmin Anver + Mohamed Izzet Ghouse (18)
3
Noor Hamza
4
(daughter) + Ifthikar
Kuthdoos (65,40)
4
(son)
4
(son)
3
Honeya
4
(son) + Mirza Sheriffdeen
3
(daughter)
2 Mahmood MAC
2 Jazeela MAC + Ibrahim
MLM (12)
3
Maleeha Ibrahim + Mohideen
4
Lareefa Mohideen + Shiraz
Zainudeen (80)
5
Shezmin Shiraz
5
Shiham Shiraz
5
Shazan Shiraz
5
Shammi Shiraz
4
Sithyna Mohideen d:2003 + Mahmood d:Nov 2003
5
Murshid Mahmood
5
Muneem Mahmood
4
Niloufer Mohideen, d:Dec-31-2006 + Shakir
5
Shiham Shakir
3
Husain Jifry Ibrahim 1916-1963 + Hibshi
Mazaya Saleem 1923-1995 (40,170,171)
4
Firoze Salim Ibrahim b:Feb 20 1948, d:Aug 13, 2009, Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia + Bisreeya
Zaharana Ahamed b:25 Feb 1948, d:27 July 2008, m:1983 (10)
5
Fathima Fawaza Ibrahim b:Apr 12 1985 + Rifath Nawaz, (Bermuda)
m:Aug 9 2008
4
F Shirani N Ibrahim b:1949 + M Fazli H
Sameer b:1948, m:1974 (20,10,13,46,60,70,90,93)
5 F Melina Sameer, b:1975, BSc (Hons) Sociology,
University of London 2008 + Ahmed
Yousry Sheriff 1962, m:1993 (35,51,84,143)
(div 2004)
6 Maria A Sheriff b:1994 (Toronto, Canada) BSc
Neuroscience, MEd UofT
6 Abdullah Y Sheriff b:1997 (Toronto, Canada) Bsc Physics
UofT, ongoing MSc Physics University of Stockholm (2022-24)
5 F Nadia Sameer, BA Hons English Language, University of London
2009, b:1981 + Abdul
Qadir Hussain, m:1999 (173,174,175,185) div
5 Second spouse of F Nadia Sameer, BA Hons English Language, University of London 2009, b:1981 + Jonas Haller PhD Chemistry, Nykoping, Sweden
4
Hameeda Badri Jasminah Ibrahim b:1951 + Mohamed
Faizer Zahir 1952-1989, m:1983 (148)
5
[5] Firasa R Zahir CIMA, b:1984 + [4] Ahmed
Arshad Ibrahim, m:28-Sep-2003 (12,78)
6 Aleena Arshad
4
Fairuf Razeen Ibrahim 1953-1996 + Fathima
Zaheena Subair b:1965, m:1992 (149)
5
Fatema Sa’adia Ibrahim b:1993
3
Ruwaiza Ibrahim + Sufiyan
4
Nazli Sufiyan
5
Aleena Arshad
3 [1] Dhahlan Ibrahim, d:1999 + [2] Honeya Mohamed (22,90,106)
5
daughter
5
son
5
daughter
4
Imthiaz Muhseen + Tirmizi
Naina-Marikar (93,97)
4
Fazal Muhseen + Miss Naizer Cader
3
Ayesha Haniffa, d:Oct-8-2003 + Marzook MSM
MARZOOK AYESHA daughter of late MLM Haniffa and late Marzoona wife
of late Marzook sister of late MSM Muhseen beloved mother of
Thahani, Rumy Marzook (Commissioner General Prisons), Iqbal,
Shiraz (Dubai), Dr Himaz Marzook (National Hospital),
mother-in-law of M. Hamza, Florine, Rehana, Feroza, and
Shameera, grandmother of Sabrina, Thiranee, Thareef, Infaaz,
Amaara, Azeema, Nabil and Thahlila. Great-grandmother of Aaqil,
Asaad and Saad. Sister-in-law of Khadija Muhseen (UK). Janaza
took place on 08th October 2003 at Dehiwela Muslim Burial
Ground. 119A, Havelock Road, Colombo 05. [Sunday Observer
Oct 26 2003]
4
Thahani Marzook+ Hamza Salih
5
Sabrina Hamza
6
Aaqil
6
Asaad
5
Thiranee Hamza + Murad
Sulaiman (173,174.175)
6
Sa’ad Sulaiman, b:2001
6
Ayesha Sulaiman, b:12-Feb-2004
4
Rumy Marzook (ex Commissioner of Prisons 2003-2004) + Florrine
Cassim
4
Iqbal Marzook + Rehana
(62)
5 son
4
Shiraz Marzook + Feroza
4
Himaz Marzook, Dr. + Shameera
2
Noor Naleefa MAC (NOOR (NOOMA)
NALEEFA) She
was born in 1901 and died on 28 Jun 1989.
+ ILM
MOHIDEEN in 1916, son of Ismail (Thardeevala) Lebbe
MARIKAR and Haneefa Umma. He was born in 1896. He died in 1975
3
Asma Mohideen born
on 29 Dec 1927 + M.SALAHUDEEN
HAMID, He was born on 08 Sep 1925. He died on 12 Jan
2017, son of Muthaliyar Shaul HAMID and S. Zavahira
4
MUZAMMILA HAMID was born on 06 Apr 1947, died on 25 May 2017. + JS Asmone
4
FATHIMA HAMID was born on 08 Sep 1949 + MNM (ZUBAIR)
FAZURY. He was born on 09 Aug 1938 (Approx DOB). He died on 26
Mar 2020
4 RUMY HAMID was born on 01 Sep 1951 + FAZILA
JABBAR, daughter of JABBAR and Hannah NAVAS(?). She was born on
22 Jun 1960
4 KANZUR R. HAMID was born on 29 Jan 1953 +
JIFFRY SHERRIF. He was born on 14 Mar 1951
4 MOHAMED RASMI HAMID was born on 04 Jul 1955
+ FATHIMA SHEROZA PREENA, daughter of Baba Nazir PREENA and
Sithy Zohara MEEDIN. She was born on 25 May 1964
4 ZULEIHA (JULY) HAMID was born on 27 Jun
1958 + TUAN BUHARY. He was born on 25 May 1946. He died on 15
May 1992
4 KURAISHA
HAMID, born on 23 Dec 1959 in Talawatuhenpita North in 1981 in
Kelaniya, + MEHRAN. WAHID, born on 23 Mar 1955 in Colombo,
Western Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
5 ANIQAH3
WAHID was born on 13 Aug 1988 in Colombo. Lived in Germany from
2011 onwards
5 HARIS WAHID was born on 25 Mar 1994 in Colombo.
Lived in The Netherlands from 2013 onwards
3
Jiffriya Mohideen, b:30 Oct 1941 She
died on 12 Dec 2011.+
MM Mahmood Mohideen, b:19 Dec 1927 (s/o ??? & Noor Hinaya
Marikar)
4 MOHAMMED
IRFAN MOHIDEEN was born on 07 Jun 1964 + HAMZIYA MOHIDEEN,
daughter of Yusuf Ashrof MOHIDEEN and Huzaima
4 NOORUL
MARINA MOHIDEEN was born on 01 May 1967 + MARZOOK RAHEEM
4 IMRAN
MOHIDEEN was born on 23 Nov 1968 + MAZREENA
4 AZHAR
MOHIDEEN was born on 08 Feb 1971 + FATHIMA SAFRA
Firoze
Salim Ibrahim 1948-2009:
A Man for All Reasons
Sitting quietly, reading a book, on a warm Thursday
(Aug 13, 2009) evening, in my home in Riyadh, I was simply
thrown of my feet and shattered when my mobile phone rang and I
received the sad news of the passing away of Firoze
Salim Ibrahim, who had suffered a heart attack while on
duty at the Reverse Osmosis Water Plant, at the Prince Sultan
Air Base in Dhahran where he had been employed as an expatriate
contract worker for almost 7 years.
I met Firoze, for the very first time, way back in
1965, when I was preparing to sit for my A Levels in Colombo. We
came together as members of the Students Section of the Ceylon
Moor Youth League, a local community service and social club
that was recently established in our town. Our friendship
blossomed into a very close and strong bond through which many
significant events evolved, later on, with time. Many were the
wondrous days that followed where we, together with the rest of
the members of the club, shared and worked together carrying out
various social service and community based activities in the
bustling town of Wellawatte in Colombo. The first and most
significant project that we undertook, in those wondrous and
peaceful times, was the screening of a benefit showing of the
very first James Bond movie, “Dr No”, at the Savoy as a
fundraiser for the activities of the club. Nine years later I
was married to his sister, Shirani, and he became my brother in
law.
Born at No 15, Mary’s Road, Bambalapitiya, in their
ancestral WM Saleem home in 1948, Firoze attended Isipathana
College, Colombo 5. Subsequent to the premature death of his
beloved father, Husain Ibrahim in 1963, the family moved to
Chitra Lane at Havelock Town from their posh rented home at St.
Peters’ Place, Wellawatte. Later on they settled in their own
home which their mother purchased at Vihara Lane, also, in
Wellawatte.
Firoze’s many talents in music, art and drawing attracted him to
Architecture which he pursued very diligently at M/s Thurairajah
Associates in Colombo in search of a professional career. He
then moved into building construction and civil engineering,
successfully winning one of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation
bids as a sub contractor for the maintenance of their many
distribution facilities throughout the island. Magic was
also a great hobby that he loved and excelled in very much,
inherited from his father, who was an active member of the Sri
Lanka Magic Circle, together with other famous magic
personalities like Mudaliyar ACGS Amarasekera, Mihilar the
Mystic, & friends. He reached the pinnacle of runner up at
one of the Sri Lanka Magic Circle Magician of the Year Contest,
competing with many seasoned and mature magicians of that time.
We spent many a time, together, with the rest of the boys in the
neighborhood, actively engaging in cycling, cricket, TT, carrom,
scrabble, music, movies, swimming at Kinross, lending a hand to
uplift the local community infrastructure, and even many
enjoyable excursions out of town, during the early days of our
youth. Those who knew him will vouch for this without batting an
eyelid. Books were also a great passion of his and he read
profusely gathering knowledge about every possible topic under
the sun. He didn’t stop here. He even went out of his way to
collect and send books to others for their reading pleasure.
Just a week prior to his death he had filled a whole box with
books on Islam, including copies of the English translation of
the Quran for free distribution, and sent them to Colombo
through a colleague, Sebastian from Negombo, who was leaving
Saudi Arabia on final exit after completion of his employment
contract. The breaking daily news of politics, on print as well
as on TV, also captured much of his interest, discussions, and
time.
One of his greatest qualities, that very few people posses these
days, was the ability to smile with everyone, irrespective of
their ethnicity, position or social hierarchy, and win the
hearts of whoever he met and communicated with. Everyone,
always, had a very good word for him, be it family, friends,
colleagues, or neighbors.
His marriage to Bisreeya Zaharana Ahamed, daughter of SLMH
Ahamed and OLMALM Sithy Raliya, in the late seventies brought
forth his only child, daughter, and joy, Fathima Fawaza, for
whom he dedicated all his energy, exerting every effort, skill
and time in raising her to be a successful woman of this world.
It was sometime in the nineteen eighties that Firoze decided to
step out into the oil Sheikhdoms of the Middle East and seek his
pasture in the booming markets there, where construction was a
significant contributor to the development that was enfolding,
which also provided an ideal opportunity for people with his
technical set of skills. Moving to Dhahran, in Saudi
Arabia, Firoze spent many long years with an Aramco
subcontractor providing operations and maintenance services to
the largest oil producer in the world. By this time I had also
chosen to move to the Middle East as an expatriate worker, with
my family, and was located in the Eastern province of Saudi
Arabia, and, his arrival made all our lives even more pleasant
by having a close family member so near to us, so far away from
home. Our two girls always enjoyed his company, storytelling,
magic tricks, and were also very thankful for the many books and
magazines he used to bring them whenever he visited. He sure had
a way with kids with his ever smiling and pleasant demeanor.
There was never a dull moment when Firoze was visiting.
His work took him to various locations in the Eastern region
from Dhahran to Juaymah Camp, and even to Jubail City, in the
north eastern corner of the Kingdom where massive road
construction, power, and other infrastructure projects were
under way. We had the wonderful opportunity to visit him at all
these sites and enjoy the many luxuries that the well stocked
facilities of that oil giant, Aramco, was providing for all its
staff and visitors.
Later on, Firoze also spent many years with the King Khalid
Military City Base at Hafar Al Batin, located on the Kuwaiti
border with Saudi Arabia, where he moved his career, seriously,
into the management and maintenance of the Reverse Osmosis Water
Plant that was used across the desert Kingdom for water
purification. Eventually, on completion of that contract,
he returned home and returned to the magical calling of the
desert sands to do his final stint with the Prince Sultan Air
Base Project, once again managing the RO Water Plant, from which
facility God decided to take Home.
Talking to his immediate superior, Engineer Qahtan, at the
Dhahran Air Base during his funeral, it was most heartening to
hear the gentleman say that he would remember Firoze for just
three things, his gentlemanly manners (Ahlaaq in Arabic), his
ever presence in the Mosque at all prayer times (Imaan in
Arabic), and the exceptional quality of his work. All the
expatriate workers within the Air Base, belonging to various
different asian and African nationalities, had a very
praiseworthy word to say about him and his relationship with
them. Silva, a hardened Sri Lankan laborer, who hailed from
Maradana, told me with tears in his eyes, “He used to call me
Mr. Silva whenever he spoke to me”. Another batch of young
workers stated that he would knock on their doors after his
shift to inquire whether they had had their dinner. Most of the
young workers treated him, more or less, like a Godfather on
account of his age, maturity, patience, wisdom, knowledge and
ever willingness to discuss and resolve other their personal
problems and disputes at any time of day or night.
Another interesting feature about Firoze, that will surely
reveal his humanitarian personality is his great love for
animals and their welfare, a character that all the members of
his family possess to date, and, which has even filtered down to
my own two girls and two grandkids, through his genes. During my
visit to the camp after his death, the next day, the boys
told me that he used to feed three stray cats and one stray dog,
diligently, every single day by collecting all the scraps,
chicken bones, and left over food from the military mess.
When I walked over to his mobile Portacabin accommodation inside
the airbase there were three cats and one dog curled up in a
huddle snoozing patiently at his doorstep. They were waiting for
their master to bring them their dinner. Little did they realize
that their master had received his final call and was on his way
up to meet his Maker for his final supper and receive his
rewards for the magnificent contribution he had made during his
short tenure of 61 years and 6 months on planet Earth. All I
could do was hold back my eyes from watering and request the
boys to carry on feeding the poor animals for as long as they
could, ensuring that his kindness would be carried on, and also
that the poor animals would not starve since their expectations
were that their sustenance would always be served to them on
time y Firoze at his doorstep.
Washing his body and dressing him up in the Islamic funeral garb
(Kafan) of three non stitched pieces of cotton cloth, 6’ by 3’
clasped together by 4 strips of cotton cloth ties, in
preparation for his burial, it was hard for me to take my eyes
away from his sweet smiling face in death, each time I poured
the water across his body. He looked as if he was simply smiling
at me in his own special way.
Sadly, Firoze lost his wife, Bisreeya, in 2008,
after she had been ill for a few years. His daughter, Fathima
Fawaza, married in 2008, an occasion which he cherished very
much and was proud of, and since moved to live and work in
Bermuda where her husband, Rifath Nawaz, is currently employed
as a Microsoft Specialist Consultant.
Just take a look around and you will notice that it is pretty
obvious, today, that They don’t make people like Firoze,
anymore. Firoze, you have moved on. We will surely follow. May
God Have Mercy on his Soul.
Fazli Sameer
IBRAHIM - Firoze Salim Ibrahim 1948-2009: The death occured, in Dhaharan Saudi Arabia, of
Firoze Salim Ibrahim (Zahran Company for O&M, Prince Sultan
Airbase, Dhahran), loving son of the late Husain Ibrahim (ex HM
Customs Appraiser) and Hibshi Mazaya Ibrahim (Saleem). Beloved
husband of the late Bisreeya Zaharana Ibrahim (Ahmed). Much
loved father and father in law of Fathima Fawaza Ibrahim and
Rifath Nawaz (Bermuda), respectively. Beloved brother of Shirani
(Sameer), Jasminah (Faizer) and the late Fairuf Ibrahim.
Affectionate uncle of Melina, Nadia, Firasa, & Saadia.
Brother in law of Fazli Sameer, late Faizer Zahir, Zaheena
Subair, Shums, Noor Thaha, Ne'math, Batool, Mumtaz, late Raffai,
late Inam, Haddad and Badriya (Ahmed). Grand uncle of Maria
& Abdullah Sheriff. Janaza took place at Masjid Al Noor and
burial was conducted at the Al Thuqba Burial Grounds in
AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia on Sunday Aug 16, 2008. May Allah Have
Mercy on his soul and Grant him Jannathul Firdouse! "From Him do
we come and unto Him we return" 57, Pieris Mawatha, Kalubowila,
Dehiwela.