What is the role of Islamic scholars in Somalia and what are the conditions of Muslims there?

Salad said that scholars play their role in educating Muslims about their religion, alerting them to what they owe in religious and worldly matters, reconciling in matters in which they differ, and providing legal fatwas, especially in the month of Ramadan, in which religious questions abound.

He stated that the problems that Somalis suffer from in general are related to political matters that are due to their worldly affairs due to the civil wars that led to the collapse of the central state. Therefore, political matters are still in the process of formation and formation, which causes instability in the country.

He pointed out that Somalia is a country that depends on the fatwas of scholars and their guidance, as well as on the opinions of the elders and tribes, but the transfer of the guiding leadership from the scholars to the government has not been completely settled, causing some issues to be disturbed, as the people are still clinging to the scholars who had a very big role in also fighting colonialism.

He added that the Islamic religion in Somalia is preserved by popular efforts before government efforts, because it did not provide them with the appropriate atmosphere and appropriate bodies to preserve the religion, but scholars, with the help of the people, preserve the Islamic religion in guidance, education and dissemination of correct religious concepts, and spreading reconciliation between tribes and preventing wars between them. .

With regard to the political conflict in the country, he pointed out that scholars have a leading role in achieving reconciliation between the politicians themselves and the political blocs and orientations, calling them to understand and achieve the minimum of their demands and try to get out of wars with the least possible loss.

Also, scholars spread the correct understanding of Islam and call for the people to be a middle nation as God Almighty wanted to follow the example of the righteous predecessors and to distance themselves from all currents that deviate from the teachings of the Islamic religion.