Moderator: Moderators. SomaliNet Forums Largest online Somali community! Skip to content. Search Advanced search. Quick links. Dedicated Somali clans, history, rivalry and today's tribal matters. What is the prize? Been ha sheegin. The only Daarood that don't have waaqism is Dhulbahante and Warsangali both who share Isaaqs a long border It was only later that more strict clerics ended the practice.
Doesn't really mean much, in early Islam in Somalia, Waaq was considered an acceptable translation for Allah, and Waaq and Allah were considered the same God, but that Waaqa worshipping people just practiced a very altered version of Islam from the ancient past.
Waaqa is a monotheistic religion and Waaq is not like a pagan god, but like the god worshipped by Muslims, Christians and Jews. The reason why Islam was so successful in the horn of Africa in the early days is that Muslims argued that their religion, Waaqa, was not so much idolatry or paganism, but rather a corrupted form of the original relgion, Islam.
It was in the early Muslim's best interests, when Waaqa was the primarily religion in the horn of Africa, to translate Waaq into Allah, to reinforce this idea, and to hammer home the concept that Waaqa is an inferior form of Islam, rather than a whole different religion.
It was only much later, when virtually everyone had become a Muslim, that this relic of the past went out of fashion. It is sad that one would attempt to make up a lie and then force it upon on others to believe just so they can have something conform to the believes they hold of that particular group or person.
