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Issue 00534 |
September 6 - 12, 2008 |
issn 0856 - 9135 |
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Mufti’s son preaches at local church By Valentine Marc Nkwame “God has strange ways of working and sometimes turn things upside down and does unbelievable things,” announced Jamal Ally the only son of a Pemba- based, Zanzibar’s Islamic mufti Hussein. Jamal made this statement in Arusha last weekend while delivering a sermon at the Engarenarok Lutheran Parish where he graced all the Sunday morning church services much to the surprise of brethren in attendance. But it was not all, the over six-feet tall, dark and bold speaking youth had in the previous two days been preaching openly in a gospel crusade which had been taking place on the church grounds, a convention which attracted hundreds of people from all over the town. The meeting was organized by the parish women union through the office of Diocese’s bishop Thomas Laizer. “You can never ‘graduate’ in spiritual matters, God is like no man, otherwise who would have thought I the son of a Moslem Mufti, coming all the way from Pemba Island could stand in church and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ?” Jamal said. Apparently he is the only Christian convert in his family. “My father has 25 children and I am the only son, all the rest are female,” he testified. According to Jamal, he was thoroughly trained in the Middle East and has mastered Arabic. Jamal was also taught Islam his first and only faith he knew until he grew up. At one time he became an Imam and conducted Islamic services in mosques. “I used to be a bad young man full of vendettas and grudges,” he said. According to Jamal his beloved twin sister Jamila once became pregnant while still in school. It pained him very much and vowed to revenge. “I sought the person who did it and also made his sister pregnant, tit-for-tat,” he stated. “It is all over now, I want to tell everybody that revenge is never solution and people better leave everything to God and depend on his guidance,” he said. Other preachers at the convention were Mary Kyomo from Mbeya and Christopher Mwakasege of Arusha, however the latter got an emergence thus could not make it. The event was hosted by Bishop Thomas Laizer and resident pastor, Rev. Mathias Mushi.
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