tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31643792.post5308177606654289640..comments2024-01-12T17:19:55.321+03:00Comments on No Longer at Ease: The graveyard of miracles!Abdurahman Warsamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04579533788286692720noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31643792.post-30919133359517858412008-01-24T06:28:00.000+03:002008-01-24T06:28:00.000+03:00So much winning hearts and minds indeed, Abdurahma...So much winning hearts and minds indeed, Abdurahman.<BR/><BR/>An interesting story. It somehow reminds of my childhood years in a small village in Kenya, where the locals had the ritual of congregating on the grave of a late Somali Sufi (whom they revered so much) killed by Askaris working for British colonialists when he opposed them.<BR/><BR/>The interesting thing was that newly-weds always visited his grave,slaughter a sheep and ask him to bless their matrimony. Of course that was before the advent of Ikhwaan ul Muslimiin; the days of wayfaring Sufis accompanied by boys carrying their 'Saalimoow' hangool (a well oiled walking stick from which Sufis claimed emanates healing power lol) . When I went back to re-visit this village after more than 15 years, the locals have abandoned this ritual and now shun the practice. Some change. <BR/><BR/>I think, in few years' time, the same may become of Kandahar's inhabitants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com