Jena Jaffer Mohamed Rahim

Jena Jaffer Mohamed Rahim

Town of birth

• Zanzibar

Country of birth

• Sultanate of Zanzibar

Date of Birth

• 1905

Date of Death

• 16-6-1979

Place of Death

• London

Country of death

• United Kingdom

Source of Information

• The Descendants of Jaffer Mohamed Rahim by Salim Jaffer

Place of longest stay

• Zanzibar

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Housewife

Where-City or Country

• Tanzania

Family tree

Parents

Fatma Kassam Karim

Jaffer Mohamed Rahim 1850–1917

Partners

Abdulrasul Rattansi Bhimji 1900–1962

Children

Fatmakhanu Abdulrasul Rattansi Bhimji

Zarin Rattansi

Born in 1905 Zanzibar

Fatma Kassam Karim(Born in).

Jaffer Mohamed Rahim(Born in 1850 Manjal).

Our mother Jenabai was born in Zanzibar in 1905. She was a very gentle, kind and religious person. Our friends still refer to her as an angel and this, we all wholeheartedly second. Our mother recited Dua at the age of five at Zanzibar Jamatkhana and my grandmother, on that memorable day, served the whole jamat with ice-cream.

She was very artistic and talented and used to sew clothes and we still have many ladies who remind us that our mother made dresses for them and their children. She used to make clothes, pants and bras free of charge for all the widows who lived in the Dharamshara. In fact, she never gave up sewing and was sewing something for Malek the day before she died.

On Chandraat, we always asked her, "what did you ask for from Mawla" and her reply was as always, "Imanji Salamati".

A couple of her sayings we remember are - "Na bolvama nav goon" and the other "Naga saame nago na thinu".

We consider ourselves very richly blessed to have had such good souls as our parents.

Zarin Rattansi

THE DECENDANTS OF JAFFER MOHAMED RAHIM BY Salim Jaffer (Vancouver 1999)