With the entrepreneurship knowledge he gained from working with Sheikh Omar, Ustaz Syed Ahmad began a business with his younger brother selling Arabic books.
As for the blacksmith, he will burn your clothes or you will notice a bad smell.” The seller of musk will give you some perfume, you will buy some, or you will notice a good smell. “Verily, the parable of good company and a bad company is only that of a seller of musk and a blacksmith. Here, we can relate to the Prophet s.a.w’s saying, His close proximity with Sheikh Omar inspired him spiritually and intellectually, thus naming his teacher ‘Sheikh Al-Fateh’. At the age of 14, due to his responsibility towards his family, he decided to start working in a textile shop that was owned by al-marhum Sheikh Omar bin Abdullah Al-Khatib, a renowned religious scholar who used to hold a chair at the Haramain Mosques. Both of them attended Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah. His life consists of many lessons that we should learn from.īorn in 1933, Ustaz Syed Ahmad Semait and his younger brother and former Mufti, Ustaz Syed Isa Semait, were sent to live in an orphanage after the passing of their father. As a prolific writer and translator, his vast contributions to the community through the dissemination of religious knowledge should be recognised and continued by today’s generation, be it the asatizah community or the general public.
He has left behind a legacy that we should envy and strive to emulate. One particular local scholar that is important for us to recognise and learn from is Almarhum Ustaz Syed Ahmad Semait. Not just to show appreciation for their efforts and sacrifices, but to also benefit from the knowledge they have left behind and take inspiration from their legacies. Today, though we have our own generation of asatizah and ulama, as well as easier access to overseas religious figures on social media that we can benefit from, it is equally important that we look to our past generation of local scholars. They have contributed by giving sermons, writing books, providing religious guidance and solving contemporary problems. In Singapore, our local Asatizah and ulama have been the main source of spreading religious knowledge to the community.
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