Prof. M.T.M.Jiffry, Deputy
Chairman, University Grants commission passed away this morning, Fri Sep
17 2010. Inna
Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Rajioon (From God he comes and unto God he
returns)
Prof. M.T.M.Jiffry
I met him as a freshman at t the Peradeniya Campus of the
then University of Ceylon. I ragged him and we became friends immediately
and enjoyed our campus lives though we were in different faculties. After
graduation and right throughout our careers we kept in touch with each
other, though not regularly and exchanged news of each other. We became
professionally closer when he joined the University Grants Commission.
When the idea to form the Insight Education Trust came up,
the first person that I contacted by phone to be a member of the
Trust was Prof. Jiffry who without any hesitation agreed. It was a
rich experience for me and other Trustees thereafter to sit with him and
dissect, repair and suture the Insight Deed of Trust as an excellent document
crafted initially by Br. Najeem AAL.
Prof. Jiffry , Dr. Ziyard Thaha and Shibly Azeez PC went
into lengthy discourses on words, values and principles that were embedded into
the Insight deed of trust. His last official function at Insight
Institute of Management and Technology was delivering the Keynote address at
the launch of our BBA programme at the City Campus
Then we met at the Insight Trust meetings.
Since April or May his phone went dead virtually. We could nor get
the Deed of Trust Signed by him though he contributed heavily towards it. That
was Allah's will.Today he is no more. His professional contributions will live
on and on.
May Allah grant him Jannathul Firdhouse
Hilmi Sulaiman
Secretary
Insight Education Trust
Phone +1 201 915 0263