My Father Essa Ahamed Sait

My Father Essa Ahamed Sait 

My father, Essa Ahamed Sait was the first law graduate from our community in Kerala. He took his law degree from Madras law college in 1936 and started practicing in Cochin. He was having good income and we lived in a very royal way there. My schooling was in Hajee Essa Hajee Moosa Memorial School, Cochin.

My father is the founder member of Iqbal Library in Cochin and founder member of Muslim League in Travancore Cochin area. He became fully involved in Politics forgetting his job. He also stood in the Assembly Election from Cochin. Muslim League was in the infant stage and he has spent all his money for the election, but lost. He became depressed and left Cochin and went to Taliparamb were my uncle was there.

He started practicing there and he became very popular there. This was in 1954. We were following Hanafi Madhab and locals were Shafi. There was some differences in prayer which the muslims noticed and suspected us. One Hindu girl came for house job with us and we kept as we never felt any problem. But the orthodox Hindus could not tolerate that. Though we sent her, both muslims and hindus became angry and he lost most of his practice. My grand father then came and  took us to Kayamkulum where I was admitted in the Govt High School. 

This is the turning point in my life. One person motivated me there to study well and I became top in the class. My father though started practicing in Kayamkulum he could not succeed. My father is instrumental to start Muslim League in Quilon. But when Muslim league joined with others in the Vimochana Samaram to topple the first Communist Ministry which was doing very well, my father then resigned from the league as it was against his principle to topple a ministry doing well.

He is a person who spent all his money for the party and did not get any benefit from it. He became introvert and could not do any work and died in 1974 at Cochin at the age of 63, having not even a pie with him. Muslim League totally forgot my father who is responsible for sacrificing his life and money for establishing the party. He was however happy in his last days as all his children has come up by then through hard work.

After realising that he has cancer and it is in the last stage he called all to whom he was not happy requested for forgiveness and died peacefully at Cochin.

May Allah bless my father forgive all his sins and make him enter Jannath out of  His Mercy  Aameen 

Dr.Mohamed ali essa