Uroos of Khalifa Syed Mahmud Ahmed Ibrahim sahib “Contractor Hazrat”
The urus fatihaa of Syed Mahmoodh Ahmad Ibrahim Contractor Hazrat 3rd son of Al waliyyul Kamil Meer Ahmed Ibrahim Rahmatullahi alaihi (periya hazrat) is to be held on 2nd Night of Ramzan (2nd september 2008) at Kazimar periya pallivasal, Madurai.
Hariri moulid and other moulids of Prophet swallallahu alaihi wa sallam will be recited followed by Du’aa and jalala.
Syed mahmoodh Ahmedh Ibrahim was a Khalifa of our Tariqa, fassiyatush shadhilyya for a very long time and had got a rare oppurtunity of serving our Qutb Seyyaduna ash Sheikh Shamsuddin Makki al fassi Raliyallahu ta’ala anhu during sheikh’s visit to madurai.
The Black marbles laid on the floor of Erwadi Durgah, Ramanatahapuram district was personally laid by Syedh Mahmood Ibrahim @ Contactor Hazrath overcoming lot of difficulties on those days.
Contractor Hazrath has also served as a senior mutawalli of our 700 year old mosque kazimar periya pallivasal and has got back to our management, the Edgah grounds land at Arasaaradi (then called as Pallavarayan thoppu pallivasal) from the Dhula shah and other members of sheriff clan. Still there is a plaque outside our mosque which reads Contractor Hazrat’s name for bringing water facility to the residents of Kazimar street.
Contractor Hazrat has also served as a powerful councillor of Madurai municipality.
Though being Khalifa of Shadhiliya tariqa, Great Muhib of Erwadi durgah Shuhadaas, Mutavalli of our mosque and councillor of Madurai municipality, Syed Mahmud Ahmad Ibrahim was well known as “CONTRACTOR HAZRAT” for he being the official contractor of the English East India Company’s British Rule in India having built the great monuments of madurai such as Albert Victor Bridge (Called as A.V.Bridge), Victoria Edward hall, Govt.Rajaji Hospitals and Govt. medical college which stands as an evidence of his work for centuries together.
He was Born in 1859 A.D. and passed away in 1941 at his age of 82.