Posted to the MILF Website (Jul 2): Traditional Moro leaders urge Muslim families to strengthen unity
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Traditional Moro leaders urged Moro clans to strengthen unity among families and relatives.
“We must show to other people that we Muslims love one another and we are united. If we abandon unity, we gain no respect,” Datu Alimudin Hassan, Raja Muda of Sugoda Buayan pointed out.
Traditional Moro leaders urged Moro clans to strengthen unity among families and relatives.
“We must show to other people that we Muslims love one another and we are united. If we abandon unity, we gain no respect,” Datu Alimudin Hassan, Raja Muda of Sugoda Buayan pointed out.
Datu Tungko Saikol, Sultan of the Dikaya Clan from Kabuntalan Sultanate, also told the descendants of the couple Datu Watamama Kudanding and Bai Laga Unggo Jalani to strengthen attachment and love among the relatives as practiced by the ancestry of the Moro people.
Saikol and Hassan were guest speakers during the 1st Grand Reunion of Datu Watamama Kudanding Descendants held in Barangay Ligaya, General Santos City on June 23, 2013.
The gathering was attended by more than seven hundred members of families Kudanding, Tondog, Canacan, Panayaman, Bentaib, Dambong, and Kinjo which all descended from Kudanding and Jalani.
Sultan Saikol related the Tarsila (genealogy) and explained the connection of Datu Jalani with the royal families of Kabuntalan, Maguindanao and Buayan Sultanates.
Imam Mantil Kudanding, Watamama sa Sugoda Buayan and Vice-Chair of General Santos City Council of Imams, spearheaded the activity which was aimed to let the younger generations of his clan know each other.
He said the occasion is one way for the relatives to know each other. “It sadden me that only we old fellows know how we are connected to each other, but the young ones do not know who their relatives are,” he added.
Representatives from the different families were grateful for the opportunity that their children were able to meet their kins.
Members of the clan planned to form their families into an organization.
Other plans discussed was to put up directory of prospect blood donors who can donate blood for their relatives whenever needed and how they can help those who will be hospitalized.
The clan also gathered family trees that will be used to continue the Tarsila that will be book-bound and shall be launched next year.
Kudanding clan is one of the biggest Maguindanaon clans in Sugoda Buayan.
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Saikol and Hassan were guest speakers during the 1st Grand Reunion of Datu Watamama Kudanding Descendants held in Barangay Ligaya, General Santos City on June 23, 2013.
The gathering was attended by more than seven hundred members of families Kudanding, Tondog, Canacan, Panayaman, Bentaib, Dambong, and Kinjo which all descended from Kudanding and Jalani.
Sultan Saikol related the Tarsila (genealogy) and explained the connection of Datu Jalani with the royal families of Kabuntalan, Maguindanao and Buayan Sultanates.
Imam Mantil Kudanding, Watamama sa Sugoda Buayan and Vice-Chair of General Santos City Council of Imams, spearheaded the activity which was aimed to let the younger generations of his clan know each other.
He said the occasion is one way for the relatives to know each other. “It sadden me that only we old fellows know how we are connected to each other, but the young ones do not know who their relatives are,” he added.
Representatives from the different families were grateful for the opportunity that their children were able to meet their kins.
Members of the clan planned to form their families into an organization.
Other plans discussed was to put up directory of prospect blood donors who can donate blood for their relatives whenever needed and how they can help those who will be hospitalized.
The clan also gathered family trees that will be used to continue the Tarsila that will be book-bound and shall be launched next year.
Kudanding clan is one of the biggest Maguindanaon clans in Sugoda Buayan.
http://www.luwaran.com/