Ntcheu Sheikhs Form Majlis Ulama Committee

Muslim Sheikhs (leaders) in Ntcheu district have formed Majlis Ulama (Council of Muslim Scholars) committee for the district.

The leaders have also formed a Nikkah Committee to be running all Nikkah affairs and other functions in district.

Muslim association of malawi(MAM) Deputy Region Secretary (Central) Ibrahim Twaibu hailed the turn out of the meeting on 29th December , 2019 at Ntcheu Main Mosque.

"All sheikhs who were invited to attend the meeting were present and all the agendas were passed," Twaibu said.

He said the Sheikhs also took this opportunity to express their requests to MAM and well wishers.

"The Sheikhs requested well-wishers to provide them with food because they have inadequate food because of hunger due to uncertain rainfall in the district,"

"The sheikhs continued to plead for Islamic loans. They are asking the Islamic organisations to introduce loans without interest, so that they can have a capital to start small businesses".

The committees were selected according to the zones. The committee selected were; Ntcheu zone Sheikh kazembe Sheikh chibaya Sheikh Mpulula

Chikande zone Sheikh Abubakar ommar Sheikh william Layiton Ibrahim cassim Sheikh kison Lapoka Sheikh Jafar kandulu

Balaka market zone Sheikh Kaisi Sheikh Idrissa Sheikh Abubakar

Ntonda zone Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Sheikh Abdulrazak Sheikh Mussa Rashid

Kasinje zone Sheikh Umar Sheikh Mwanyali Sheikh Ahmad Piyasi Sheikh Suwedi Koloko Sheikh Abdussalaam square.

All the sheikh selected and those who were not selected were happy.They requested that the meeting should be happening every year for the Sheikhs to be expressing their problems to the right people.