I don't know why I disliked your post, but after reading alot of stuff, I'm starting to agree with you. Islam was not as highly propagated in Somalilands as I first thought.@Hamzza
I know you're triggered by the cultural stuff like sacred trees and want to for some reason believe it was just the Cisse doing this but, wallahi, walaal, I'm afraid that's simply not true and it's very clear this was ubiquitous across regions like the north.
I don't know why I disliked your post, but after reading alot of stuff, I'm starting to agree with you. Islam was not as highly propagated in Somalilands as I first thought.
You are 100% right brother.I would argue it was relatively well and regularly propagated. The thing we need to grasp about Islam in Somaliweyn is that it came via trade and not conquest although internal jihads may very well and seemingly sometimes did occur. This means that Somalis adopted Islam in a syncretic manner. As in a lot of the pre-Islamic culture got preserved despite the fact that you had Wadaads running around Somaliweyn teaching people about the deen regularly:
Even the office and nature of the "Wadaad" seems, as Diriye says, pre-Islamic itself and probably harkens back to something like a Qallu priest among Waqists. You see a similar situation in Indonesia. The faith not coming via conquest meant a lot of compromise was probably reached with the local people hence the preservation of all these shirk-y customs and naago walking around with their shoulders and necks exposed.
Somalis are a subset of the great Arab nation.Afro-Asiaticnimo is real Señor NiloticFikrad ayaan hayaa... you can just claim Somali instead of Madow or Arab
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Other Somali areas outside of xamar were doing well in their respective sultanatesThat video is stupid, only Mogadishu was benefiting you think the entire country was like that ? Kkkkkkk we been gaajo way before the civil war don’t let this vids fool you
The "golden" age of Somalia 1980 is a quarter of Xamar
Nah I know what i'm talking about, Xamar almost 50% had no access to electricity only the quarter where colonialists lived had infrastructure if you go online and look up Xamar its the same 2 areas for a reason. All of Somalia isn't Shangani bro.Bit of an exaggeration. Yes, some folks look at the life of the well-off of in Xamar and act like the whole country was living it up which wasn't true but I've listened to relatives, both very old and middle-aged, who remember the pre-civil war era in the gobols very well and they plainly do state it was better than now. There was safety, rule of law and a functioning transport system and government facilities like clinics and schools and whatnot. The country was slowly on its way and reer miyi had their own properly separate and respected dhaqan that was more slowly transitioned and integrated into urban areas rather than being as fakhri and mooryaan as it is now.
Nah I know what i'm talking about, Xamar almost 50% had no access to electricity only the quarter where colonialists lived had infrastructure if you go online and look up Xamar its the same 2 areas for a reason. All of Somalia isn't Shangani bro.
Very true, I was once sent to the trenches of qooryolay and to cleanse the house they'd get sticks from certain trees and burn it to ward off the jinns.@Hamzza
I know you're triggered by the cultural stuff like sacred trees and want to for some reason believe it was just the Cisse doing this but, wallahi, walaal, I'm afraid that's simply not true and it's very clear this was ubiquitous across regions like the north.