5.91 . Satan seeketh only to cast among you enmity and hatred by means of strong drink and games of chance , and to turn you from remembrance of Allah and from ( His ) worship . Will ye then have done?
L o r d (S a y y i d) M o h a m m a d T a h i r A l h u s s e i n i
(1842-1908)
Born in 1842; Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1890s; headed a commission set up in Jerusalem in 1897 by local notables to examine land sales to Jews; under his presidency the commission succeeded and effectively stopped land sales in the Jerusalem area for the next few years; died in 1908; father of Haj Amin al-Husseini.
