Death
Sheikh Khalid Hafiz died in the Wellington suburb of Rongotai at the age of 61. Over 200 people attended his funeral and he was remembered in the local newspaper obituary as “an imam as imams should be, but rarely are.”
“Sheikh Khalid’s impact spread wider than New Zealand and on his death messages of sympathy were received by Wellington Muslims from the Muslim World League and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth as well as Muslims in Fiji and Australia. There were also condolences from Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia as well as the embassies of Iran and Turkey in Wellington.”.
After his demise the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) was obliged to replace the one man with an entire board of ulema. His son-in-law, Sheikh Mohammed Amir, has served as Imam of Wellington ever since..
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