Addressing mourners at the sendoff of the fallen Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC chairperson, Dr. Abdulkadir Balonde at Wantunda village in Busedde sub-county on Tuesday, Mubaje argued that several Muslim clerics have acquired doctorates in Islamic studies and it’s prudent for them to use their expertise to serve the Muslim community.
The Mufti of
Uganda Shaban Mubaje has tasked Muslims with the requisite qualifications in
Islamic studies to take up leadership positions in his administration.
Addressing mourners
at the sendoff of the fallen Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC chairperson, Dr.
Abdulkadir Balonde at Wantunda village in Busedde sub-county on Tuesday, Mubaje
argued that several Muslim clerics have acquired doctorates in Islamic studies
and it’s prudent for them to use their expertise to serve the Muslim community.
Sheikh
Mubaje stressed that his administration needs elites to take up Muslim leadership
positions as they can easily reason out Islamic matters basing on the Quran and other Islamic sources other than relying on human wisdom, which often breeds grounds
for disagreements among Muslims.
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Mubaje also noted that despite the fact that the Kibuli faction
strives for recognition as a Muslim religious body in the country, this will
not deter UMSC for pursuing Muslim unity.
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The UMSC Secretary-General, Ramathan Mugalu, who spoke at the same event, said
the later Balonde was a uniting factor who strived to ensure that Muslims from
different factions could interact peacefully.
The late Balonde, 75, succumbed
to COVID-19 at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital on Monday evening.
He served as
a lecturer and head of the faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic
Language-FISAL at Islamic University in Uganda prior to his election as UMSC
chairman.
