The Mullah and his Dervish camp getting whipped.
"A remarkable somali , Risaaldr Major Haji Musa Farah led a Somali army of 450 rifles a hundred mile across the Waterless Haud, picking up some five thousand local tribesmen on his way, attacking the Dervish camps and capturing several thousand camels and Sheep. This triumph was a blow to the sayyid, as his forces moved always with their families and depended on their livestock meat and milk."
After the earlier onslaughts on the Dervish and the fact he could no longer get much ammunitions from Abyssinia his homeland the Mad Mullah started
to beg the Musa Arre a sub clan of Habar Yunis native to the coastal Sanaag areas for ammunition access and to join the Dervish. But he was told
to take his double dealing nonsense somewhere else.
It was natural, therefore, that the
Mullah should seize the golden opportunity for making himself more cantankerous than ever. Finding
that the supply of rifles and ammunition from Abyssinia was not always satisfactory, he began to intrigue with the coastal tribes with a view
to securing an alternative source of supply l)y means of dhows from Arabia to one of the coastal villages, and thence overland to his haroun.
Thus he wrote to the Musa Arreh on the coast, This letter is sent to the followers of Islam. Salaams to you all, and to all believers. Further, I
let you know that your deeds have spoiled my life and also yours ; and you have broken the oath that was between us. You have forsaken the
true religion and done evil before Allah. By going to the English you forsake Islam and become infidels. ... I advise you to return to the true God,
and to the Mahomcdan religion, and the Shariat. . . . Do not join the British Government and the religion of the unbelievers, for, if you do, and
if you forsake your religion before you die, you will go to hell
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Here he is again sending letters to the Gadhweyn another sub clan of HY native to Sanaag region begging to have an alliance with them. While at the same time
sending letters to the British government saying he is seeking peace.
This was also around the same time he recited the poem
Nimanyow Gadhweyn gaalo hayga raacina
Geel hadaa rabtaana gurayahayga kaalaya
Gabadhaha Ararsame iyo Hartaan idinku geedaami.
The Mad Cow was ahead in the S**l diplomacy.
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At the same time he was writing a letter to the Gadwein tribe, which he did not intend the Commissioner to see, Ijut which hap- pened to find its way to
Government House. Here are a few extracts from it :
"Thanks be to God, prayers and salutations to the Prophet. . . . The object of this letter is twofold. One is to give you salaam ; may God's mercy, blessing and
salaams be upon you ; and the other is to inform you that you are oppressed from all sides. ... I also inform you that it is no offence in you to light the infidels and
hypo- crites, for fighting them is the duty of every Moslem. You are Moslems, and they are in- fidels. ... I also inform you that I am a pil- grim and a holy fighter,
and have no wish to gain power and greatness in this world. . . . And now, O my brothers, this is a time of patience, this is a time of oppression, this is a
time in which corruption and adultery spread, this is a time in which the infidels defeat the Moslems. . . . This is the end of all things. May God guide us.
May God prosper our ends, for the sake of the Prophet and his companions. ... I also beg that 1 may be with you, and that you may be with me, and
the first thing should be a visit between us."
And so, towards the end of his letter, he gets to business, and proposes an alliance between dervishes and Gadweins to fight those infidels, to whom he had
just been writing a request for peace.
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THE ADEN PATROL
CHAPTER XVII
AN OUTPOST OF EMPIRE IN SOMALILAND
Finally how the Mad Mullah was chased deep inside Abyssinia after the Taleex bombings and had most of his men killed by Haji Warsame Buraleh's tribal army
and 60,000 livestock looted from them.
Consequently Akil Haji Mohammed Bullaleh, commonly known as Haji Waraba, or the holy hyaena, on account of his truculent and martial qualities, was allowed to
organise a tribal army of some 3,000 Habr Yunis, Habr Toljaala, and Dolbahanta fighting men. Towards the end of July, 1920, they reached the Mullah's haroun at Gora'h, west of Shinileh, where the Mullah and some 800 Dervish and Ogaden riflemen were concentrated. Khalif and the Mullah's eldest son Mahdi had but recently died of the smallpox which was ravaging the district. The attack was delivered at dawn
All who stood and fought were killed by our tribal army; and some 60,000 head of stock and 700 rifles, numbers which give some idea of the growing strength of the Dervish- Ogaden concentration, were afterwards brought back into British territory. At the first onslaught, Haji Waraba himself, anxious to win the price set on the Mullah's head, had made straight for the Mullah's hut only to find that its occupant had fled. He must, however, have been taken very much by surprise : for his tea was still hot in its cup and his skull cap lay beside it on the ground. After calling upon the riflemen to hold up the attack until he had had time to get away, he had galloped out of the camp with a few of his intimates, intent as usual on saving his own skin.
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So you see the Mad Mullah was a double dealing coward who depended on the native clans of Somaliland for survival and when he lost their support he
died fleeing to Abyssinian territory and not even in the battlefield.
What happened to originality? Be original bro. Dont use siciido ibn Joseph's pictures. Only illiterates rely on pictures to convey a message. I thought you werent one but you are making me reconsider.
