Xaaji cali majeerteen

 

Sheikh Ali Abdirahman Fiqikheyre later in his lifetime to be known as Sheikh Ali [[Majeerteen]] was born in the Nugaal valley to a Majeerteen father and an Ajuuraan mother in the early 1800s. He would later become one of the culimo of that time who made a great contribution to educating the Somali people of the deen.

He embarked on the obligatory Hajj trip to Mecca, passing through Yemen and overcoming the harsh journey through the Arabian deserts to the holy city of Mecca. When he arrived, as was usually the case, the Arab guards discriminated against him out of racism and refused to let him enter.

Haji Ali immediately sent a letter to the leader of the second Saudi state at the time, Emir Faisal ibn Turki, the grandfather of the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal. The letter was written in Arabic in its most purest dialect as a poem.

Upon reading the letter, the Emir became furious about the situation this fellow brother all the way from Somalia was in and angrily ordered the guards of the Haramka mosque to let the Somali brother enter at once and do his deeds to Allah. When Haji Ali completed his Hajj, the Emir requested to meet the young man from Somalia who write him so eloquently.

[a picture of Sheikh Ali in his religious journeys]

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When the Emir and the young Haji met each other, as is the custom to both Arabs and Somalis, the Emir enquired him about his lineage. Haji Ali responded with a beautiful Arabic poem, showcasing the present Arabs at the venue of the nobility of his heritage. He later translated the poem into Somali:

The Emir, impressed as he was with this black man's grasp of the Arabic language and poetry without ever having set foot in the Arabian peninsula before, prompted him to allocate Haji Ali with a large plot of land. This would mark the beginning of the Sheikh's journey to the rest of the Arabian peninsula and more importantly the rest of his country Somalia, especially the south where he has educated many about the deen.

To this day there is a very old mosque in Oman, where the Omanis upong seeing your Somali appearance will tell you about a strong Somali man who has helped them build the mosque by providing it with large logs of wood carried all the way up to the ceiling. The giant pieces of wood have Haji Ali's name engraved in it.

Haji Ali's history is rather long and cannot be summarized into one thread, but my message for my fellow Somali brothers and sisters, especially during this holy month, is that many Somalis before us have struggled for Islam, fought for Islam and worked for Islam passionately and thereby forced fellow muslims of other nations to have a tremendous respect for Somalis.

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