“The Camel of the Night” monitors the strengthening of the Moroccan Shazli method of tolerance for the “Comorian community”

Muhammad Hussein Jamal Al-Layl, an Islamic thinker, advisor to the President of the Union of the Comoros for the Arab world and the former Minister of Justice in this country, said on the sidelines of his participation in an international symposium, yesterday, Thursday, at the headquarters of the Kingdom’s Academy in Rabat, that “The Shadili order is a Sunni Sufi order whose origins go back to its founder.” Abu Hassan Al-Shazli Al-Maghribi, who was an example of the ascetic Sufi sheikh.”

Jamal Al-Layl added, in an intervention entitled “The Impact of the Moroccan Shadhili Method in Promoting the Values ​​of Tolerance and Community Peace in the Union of the Comoros,” that “Sheikh Abdullah Al-Darwish was the one who came with this method to the Comoros, born of Muslim parents, and traveled in search of knowledge from the islands.” To Zanzibar, then Cairo and the Levant,” noting that “this travel led him to Zawiyat Shazliya, where he stayed for many years until he became one of the greatest saints of God before returning to the Comoros.”

The same speaker continued, “Sheikh Al-Darwish built in his city Al-Zawiya Al-Shadhiliyya, and began teaching people there the Holy Qur’an and Islamic sciences and introducing them to the method, before later handing over the latter to Sheikh Ahmed Al-Ma’arouf, who had great credit for spreading this method in the Comoros and the surrounding countries.” , such as Zanzibar and Madagascar,” adding that “the well-known sheikh fought classism in society and in the mosques, as he used to sit with ordinary people, after the Comorian people were suffering from the emergence of tribalism and classism in the houses of God, where there were mosques that only the elite of the people could enter.”

The same Islamic thinker drew attention to the fact that “the Moroccan Shadhili order was able to combat this phenomenon and other phenomena that were widespread in Comorian society,” stressing that “the sheikhs of the order fought tribalism within the cities, and considered that people were equal regardless of their tribal affiliations or social levels.” .

Speaking about the history of the entry of Islam into the Comoros, Jamal Al-Layl recorded that “historical sources state that Islam entered the islands during the life of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace,” referring in this regard to “the visit of the Comorian Sultans Bidja Muamba and Mtswa Mwandzi to Medina and the Najd.” One of them remained in Medina until the outbreak of strife during the reign of Uthman ibn Affan, after which he returned to the islands and learned the Arabic language, the Holy Qur’an, the noble Sunnah of the Prophet, and some Islamic knowledge.”

The Comorian Islamic thinker did not fail to mention the origin of the name Comoros, which he said goes back to “the first Arabs who inhabited these islands after they arrived there on a moonlit night. They were amazed by the sight of the moon there, and they called them the Comoros, opening both the qaf and the mim,” pointing out in At the same time, “there are other defective names, such as those that attribute this name to the lunar plane and other names.”