{"id":655235,"date":"2019-07-12T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muslims should be prepared to foot the bills of the man who\nwould take up the position of National Chief Imam of the country when the\ncurrent personality holding t"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T12:57:26","slug":"are-muslims-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/12\/are-muslims-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Are Muslims Ready?\u2019 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Muslims should be prepared to foot the bills of the man who<br \/>\nwould take up the position of National Chief Imam of the country when the<br \/>\ncurrent personality holding the top assignment is no more doing so. <\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Baba Sheriff Abdullahi, an opinion leader in the<br \/>\nIslamic community and Chief Executive Officer of an influential Hausa radio<br \/>\nnetwork with a large listenership in Accra and beyond Marhaba FM, was sharing<br \/>\nhis thoughts about the subject with <strong><em>Daily Guide<\/em><\/strong> last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the Christian faith the various denominations have their<br \/>\ninternal arrangements for managing their office holders something which does<br \/>\nnot exist in the Islamic community. One day when another person takes over the<br \/>\nposition I wonder how the office is going to be operated considering the many<br \/>\nsacrifices the current man does to keep the office going including taking care<br \/>\nof himself\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims should be prepared to contribute something towards<br \/>\nthe maintenance of the Office of the National Chief Imam because the standards<br \/>\nSheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu has set cannot be sustained in the future he\u00a0 told <strong><em>Daily Guide<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994 he recalled how the issue of holidays for Muslims<br \/>\ncropped up at the governmental level and the role Sheikh Osman Sharubutu played<br \/>\nin that direction. He said \u2018the then acting Chief Imam Sheikh Osman Sharubutu<br \/>\nwas invited by the late Justice D.F. Annan for a discussion on the matter of<br \/>\nwhich I was a part. The PNDC official said without a central authority for<br \/>\nMuslims it was going to be difficult for the holiday issue to be resolved. The<br \/>\nChief Imam decided to rally round the regional chief imams for a meeting which<br \/>\ntook place in Accra at his expense, accommodation, transportation and meals.<br \/>\nThis is how much the man has sacrificed for Islam. Are we prepared to<br \/>\ncontribute towards the running of the office?\u2019 The meeting was held at the<br \/>\nAbossey Okai Central Mosque with the late Maulvi Wahab Adam of the Ahmaddiyya<br \/>\nMuslim Movement in attendance he said. \u2018It was the latter who mooted the\u00a0 idea of a Hilal Committee to discuss and<br \/>\ndecide upon the sighting of the crescent and date for the commencement and<br \/>\nending of the annual Ramadan fast\u2019 he recalled how the Chief Imam commenced the<br \/>\nidea of bringing Muslims together to discuss common issues.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims must be prepared to establish a Secretariat for the<br \/>\nmanagement of their affairs as have the other denominations of the Christian<br \/>\nfaith so as he put it \u2018orderliness can give way to decent management of the<br \/>\nvaried issues confronting the Islamic faith.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Currently he noted there are no structures for the management<br \/>\nof the faith hence the occasional chaotic situations which arise within its<br \/>\nfold. <\/p>\n<p>During a Muslim Ummah National Stakeholders Consultative<br \/>\nForum on the 2020 Population and Housing Census in Accra, Alhaji M.B. Adam, a<br \/>\nrepresentative of the Upper West Regional Chief Imam called for a national<br \/>\ndialogue on the succession plan for the seat of National Chief Imam to avert<br \/>\nconflict when the seat eventually becomes vacant. <\/p>\n<p>He painted a gloomy picture of the aftermath of the seat becoming vacant without a succession plan and added \u2018we are already seeing it in the smaller groups where there are fights all over the place over district and regional chief imams, so if there are fights at these levels that are not even nationally recognized, they how much more the position of the National Chief Imam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY A.R. Gomda<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu Muslims should be prepared to foot the bills of the man who would take up the position of National Chief Imam of the country when the current personality holding the top assignment is no more doing so. 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