مالاوي: تكريم العلماء والدعاة المسلمين لجهودهم في خدمة المجتمع

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أكد الشيخ "عمران شريف" - نائب رئيس مجلس علماء "مالاوي" - عن ترحيبه بالمبادرة التي أعلنها مارشال مدينة "دايتون"، التي تتضمن تكريم علماء المسلمين ودعاتهم على جهودهم في نشر الإسلام والمساهمة في تحسين الأوضع الاقتصادية والاجتماعية بالبلاد.

وأكد "دايتون" أن هذه المبادرة تُحاول أن تُثبت للعالم جمال الإسلام، ودوره الإيجابي في تعزيز المجتمعات، مؤكدًا أنه ينبغي تقديم العِرفان لمن لا يزالون يُضحون لتحقيق الخير للبلاد منذ استقلالها عام 1964، وإبراز إسهامات المسلمين خلال تلك العقود الخمسة؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Malawi Muslim Scholars, Groups Honored

Recognizing their efforts to spread Islam in the southern African nation, a special award has been granted to a group of Malawian Muslim organizations and individuals for their sacrifices and contributions towards the growth of Islam and socio-economic development of the diverse country.

“We decided to come up with this initiative in order to recognize various contributions and sacrifices some Muslim organizations and individuals have made towards the growth of Islam and other aspects of socio-economic development of the country,” Marshall Dyton, Coordinator of the awards told OnIslam.net.

The awards, an initiative of the Malawi Muslim Official Website, published by Dayton himself, are the first of their kind within the Muslim community in Malawi.

“Through this initiative, we wanted the world and the nation to appreciate the beauty of Islam through its contributions to the socio-economic development of Malawi,” Dayton said.

“Through the international media, Islam has been subjected to bad publicity. We have been portrayed as terrorists and associated with all sorts of bad things. We wanted therefore to demonstrate to the world that there is a good side, about Muslims and Islam that people should be grateful for.”

The Muslim figure added that without Muslims, various aspects of development would have been missing, referring to a rich history of Muslim contributions over the past five decades.

“In Malawi, it would be difficult to talk of progress in various aspects of development, without Muslims,” he said.

“We have been part of the country’s development process during the 50 years of our independence and even before independence. We wanted the level sacrifices some individuals and organizations have made, towards Islam and the nation. Their sacrifices have not been in vain.”

Introduced in the 1880s, Islam came to the Southern African nation with Arab traders who spread across the African continent.

Islam is the second largest religion in Malawi after Christianity.

Muslims account for 12 percent of the country's 14 million population. But Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) puts the number at 36 percent according to the census it conducted a few years ago.