Moro Gulf, the new Singapore
Hello and welcome. Chances are what whisked you to this site is the word Maranao and Iranun-Moro (my guess) . If you’re looking for an answer to where to terminate the hemline on your hijab or when does the month of Fasting start/ or pause/ or end, then you’ve stumbled into the wrong place. Yes, we will be exploring here all the facets of what it is being a Maranao and a part of the Iranun-Moro juggernaut in general, but it’s going to be unlike the tons of debris hurtling out there in internet space like chunks of stray meteors.
I’m making no apology as this is my first blog on the subject. Being an Iranun-Moro is not to be equated with being a Muslim. Let’s be crystal-clear on this from the get-go. And before we take the journey into the enchanted lands of Qomara and Benbaran, I want to be clear on one thing before the word “anti-Islam” whooshes out of some big-mouthed RPGs and blast me out of the water.
I was born in a deeply religious family. My father, Sheik Ibrahim Ali Sharief was an ulama and one of the original founders of the Majliso Shoorah in the 1960s. He first studied in Mecca in the 1940s living in one of the mud-houses surrounding the Kaabah. Nostalgic, in the 1950s he went back to the Philippines and founded the first madrasah in Parang, Maguindano and its mosque with Mayor Bara Lidasan where I was born. Ustaj Ibrahim Sharief was the mentor of many living ulamas today and even the late Alim Mimbantas and Hasheem Salamat and a few others.
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competent, well-balanced, and a boon to society.At IPSJ, we are not only giving our students the curriculum for learning. We equip them with the necessary tools–intellectual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual–to make them confident, competent, well-balanced, and a boon to society.At IPSJ, we are not only giving our students the curriculum for learning. We equip them with the necessary tools
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- nly giving our students the curriculum for learning. We equip them with the necessary tools–intellectual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual–to make them confident, competent, well-balanced, and a boon to society.
On Maranao 