He made a desperate call to all Muslims in the country to sacrifice and take their children to Islamic training schools at all levels in an effort to combat the problem of few Sheikhs which is haunting their faith.
The head of Uganda Hajj Bureau which is responsible for organizing travel formalities for pilgrims to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Sheikh Zakaria Kiwalyanga has expressed worry at the extremely low number of Sheikhs in the country, which he says has compromised the work of giving guidance on Islamic affairs.
He is concerned that while training institutions are very few, even the few trained Sheikhs tend to engage in other secular businesses, leaving a gaping vacuum for Sheikhs to handle training needs for Islam. In effect Sheikh Kiwalyanga noted, the battle to fight habits likely to tarnish their religion remains in jeopardy.
He was officiating as chief guest at the function where students of Naggalama Islamic Institute at Naggalama village in Nakifuma Naggalama Town Council, Mukono district completed the sixth grade of Arabic language (Thanaawi).
Among other guests at the function was the Second Deputy Mufti Dr. Hafizu Muhamed Harunah Bukenya and Uganda’s Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sheikh Sulaiman Guggwa.
He made a desperate call to all Muslims in the country to sacrifice and take their children to Islamic training schools at all levels in an effort to combat the problem of few Sheikhs which is haunting their faith.
Kiwalyanga also noted that even the few available Sheikhs are confined in urban centre leaving rural settings in a dire shortage of their services.
Sheikh Sulaiman Guggwa concurred with Haji Kiwalyanga, noting that well trained Sheikhs are gradually decreasing in number for the neglect to go for upgrading and instead spending most of their time on online studies, and so erroneously assuming that they have been adequately trained.
Guggwa therefore appealed to them to avoid spreading gospels fraught with creating rifts among believers.
The head of Naggalama Islamic Institute, Sheikh Fahad Katega appealed to the newly passed out preachers to avoid scrambling for the few available mosques they find in their localities, and instead strive to construct new ones, which he noted will make them popular among faithfuls in their areas.
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