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LOOKING BACK with Ding Yahya

Maranao leaders support BTA extension

SUPPORT FOR BTA EXTENSION. Datu Alexander “Abdulrauf” P. Mama-o, Chairman of the Solid Alliance for Peace Progress Reforms and Democracy expressed full support for BTA extension. (File photo) ILIGAN CITY: A group of Maranao professional and traditional leaders has declared unconditional support for the extension of the Bangsamoro transition government from 2022 until 2025. In …

5 things a Muslim society owes to its Senior Citizens

While in the West, they place their senior citizens in the homes of the aged, in Muslim countries, Muslim elderly people are given special treatment. They are taken care of by their children and relatives who place upon themselves a religious and family obligation to take care of their elderly people.

LOOKING BACK: My Timeline 3 years ago today

Ding Yahya Timeline With Masiding Noor Yahya Starting today, this column ‘Ding Yahya’s Timeline’ will appear in Philippine Muslim Today to give variety of content to its various readers. It will also appear in Ranao Star Philippines. In this issue at hand are memories extracted from my timelines published in my social media accounts such as Facebook …

Marawi Siege: Nothing to celebrate, just mourning

MARAWI CITY: Three years ago, on May 23, 2017, terror struck Marawi, the Islamic city in the Philippines and dubbed the summer capital of the country’s south. An estimated 1,000 Islamic State-inspired Maute group and allied terrorists laid a siege on Marawi City. It took government forces five months to drive them out, with extensive …

In our Islamic world, politicians are not saviors

"We are living in a dark age like the old ones. But as we are the ones in this age, it is most painful to us." In our own world that we call Islamic, or Muslim's, or living according to its cultural or religious values, allegorically or synthetically or otherwise, politicians are still politicians. They …

Title bragging is the worst form of hypocrisy

Title bragging is the worst form of hypocrisy I wish I could understand why there are people who are proud raising eyebrows just because they hold positions they don't deserve: They do nothing and nothing else of what they are paid for, or privileged for. A mosque in Marawi Ground Zero or Most Affected Area …

BARMM identifies 196 Filipino attendees to Malaysia ‘Ijtima’

By MASIDING NOOR YAHYA The Bangsamoro government has identified 196 of the 215 Filipino Muslims who attended an 'Ijtima,' (religious gathering) in Malaysia of the Jama'at Tabligh, an international movement of Islamic preachers. "196 of the 215 Filipino-Muslims who attended a Tabligh (Islamic preachers) gathering in Malaysia has now been identified by the Bangsamoro Autonomous …

So Covid-19 go so pamangni ko Allah

O sa Imanto Aya: Bandingan ko Masa o Meranao #2 Alhamdulillaah. Wassalaato wassalaam alaa Muhammad, sallallaahu 'alaihi wa 'aalihi wa sallaam. Assalamo alaykom wa rahmatollaahi wa barakatoh. Mga bang'nsa ko a miyamaratiya-ya. Miya-aloy angkaya ayat ko Kitab o Allaah a so Qur'an AlKareem, a aya iranon na: "Phantang ka, Mata-an! A so diyandi o Allah …

O sa Imanto Aya: Bandingan ko Masa o Meranao #1

Inidaptar go pizariat e MASIDING NOOR YAHYA A’udho billaahiminshshaitaanir rajeem. Bismillahirrahman irrahim. Alhamdulillaah, wassalaato wassalaam ‘alaa rasoolillaah, Sayyidina Muhammad wa ‘alaa ‘aalehe Sayyidina Muhammad. Assalaamo aleikom jami’an wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatoh.  https://youtu.be/gnslpn96l_8 Mga lokesaken, mga pagariakn, mga babayakn, mga wata akn. Saken si Hj. Mohammad Yasin, a si Masiding Noor Yahya, a aya ilano iyan sa Social Media …