Immensely! In 1988, Somalia saw the earliest forms of da'wah, I remember as a kid seeing women wearing Jilbaabs for the first time (they looked alien to us), the Masjids started hosting nightly sermons, they used to be called 'Akhwaan' it was a period of Islamic revitalization. Somalia should be grateful to men like Boqolsoon & Cumar Faarooq who brought about a major social awareness campaign. For the first time, people saw Islam in a different light & took interest, I remember Masjid Sh. Ali Sufi used to be packed every single night, people used to come from as far as Madina & Huriwaa to listen to these sermons. Also, for the first time, women were assigned their own space in the Masjids, before this, it was very rare to find a women's section in most Masjids in Somalia.FAH1223 wrote:Koronto, has the bidca been declined since the civil war?
As more people discovered Islam, they realized age-old traditions that had links to Sufism were not only ridiculous, but also dangerous (Shirk). Some people say the only good thing that came out of the civil war was that the people learned their religion, did they become better Muslims? Allahu Aclam.
The sad thing was these early 'Akhwaans' were demonized, I remember sisters with Jilbaabs used to be spit on in the streets, there was a famous 'Akhwaan' lady called Caasho Kacaan who defied the government and never removed her veil, she was jailed about the same time as the clerics were killed in 1979.
