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Comment by Benjamin Ayub on May 27, 2011 at 5:57pm

ALHAMDULILLAH! MUSLIM TLAGA ANG UNANG TAO SA PILIPINAS...KASI ACCORDING TO THE HISTORY PHILIPPINE WAS CHRISTIANIZED DURING THE TIME OF MAGELLAN....KAYA MGA KAPATID KO SA PANANAMPALATAYA, ANG PILIPINAS AY NA DISCOVER LANG NI PHILIPP II...MAS NAUNA ANG MGA MORO KAYSA CHRISTIAN....ALLAHU AKBAR!

Comment by Benjamin Ayub on May 27, 2011 at 5:51pm

History of Islam in the Philippines

Ang Islam ay nakilala sa Pilipinas noong 13 siglo sa pamamagitan ng isang Arabong Misyonaryo na si Sharif Makhdum na lumapag sa Sulu. Ipinagawa niya ang unang Masjid sa Pilipinas sa Tubig-Indangan, Pulo ng Simunol, Lalawigan ng Tawi-Tawi. Ang natitirang bahagi ng Masjid ay makikita pa rin sa dati niyang kinalalagyan. Si Makhdum ay namatay sa Pulo ng Sibuto, Lalawigan ng Tawi-Tawi at ang kanyang puntod ay dinadayo ng mga turista hanggang sa ngayon.   Ng taong 1390, si Rajah Baginda ay dumating sa Bansa at pinagpatuloy ang pagpapalaganap ng Islam na sinimulan ni Sharif Makhdum. Si Abu Bakr ay dumating sa Jolo noong 1450 at pagkatapos ay pinakasalan niya ang dalagang anak ni Rajah Baginda na si Putri (Princess) Paramisuli. Si Abu Bakr ang nagtatag sa tinatawag na Sultanate of Sulu na kung saan silang mag-asawa ang naging unang Sultan at Sultana.   Pagkatapos maitatag ang Islam sa Sulu, ang mga Muslim ay naglakbay patungong Mindanao sa pamumuno ni Sharif Kabungsuwan. Siya ay lumapag sa Maguindanao (Cotabato) sa taong 1475 at pagkatapos ay pinakasalan niya si Putri Tunina. Sila rin ang kauna-unahang Sultan at Sultana sa Maguindanao.   Sa paglipas ng maraming taon, maraming Datu na Muslim ang pumunta sa Pilipinas pagkatapos marinig ang magandang balita sa magandang pagtanggap sa mga naunang Muslim. Magmula sa Borneo ay dumating ang sampung Datu na lumapag sa Panay. Ang mga Datung ito ay sina : Datu Puti, Datu Sumakwel, Datu Bangkaya, Datu Dumalogdog, Datu Paiburong, Datu Paduhinog, Datu Lubay, Datu Dumangsil, Datu Kalantiaw at si Datu Balensula.   Si Datu Puti ang siyang pinuno ng grupo ng mga Datu. Si Datu Puti ay dalubhasa sa paglalakbay at sila'y lumapag sa San Joaquin, Iloilo (ang pangalan nito noong una ay Siwaragan). Si Datu Puti at ang mga kasama niya ay binili ang mababang lupa sa Iloilo na nagmula kay Marikudo, ang pinuno ng mga Ita. Nagtatag sila ng sarili nilang pamayanan. Nang ang pamilya ng mga taga Borneo ay natatag sa Panay, si Datu Puti, si Datu Balensula at si Datu Dumangsil ay naglakbay muli at kanilang narating ang Batangas na sakop ng Luzon.   Si Datu Balensula at si Datu Dumangsil ay nagtatag ng sarili nilang pamayanan at si Datu Puti ay nagbalik sa Borneo sa daang Mindoro at Palawan. Isinalaysay niya ang kanyang karanasan sa mga Borneans at dumami ang nabighani para makapunta sa Pilipinas.   Nang lumapag si Magellan sa Pulo ng Limasawa noong ika-16 ng Marso 1521, ang Pilipinas ay isa ng Bansa ng mga Muslim sa kadahilanang ang karamihan ng populasyon ay mga Muslim na. Pinatutunayan din sa kasaysayan na noong dumating si Legaspi (ang pumalit kay Magellan na napatay ni Lapu-Lapu), ang kaharian ng mga Muslim ay naitatag na sa Batangas, Pampanga, Mindoro, Panay, Catanduanes, Cebu, Bohol, Samar, Manila, Palawan, na hindi pa kasali ang solidong mga Pulo ng Mindanao. Noong ika-13 ng Hunyo 1571, ang mga Kastila ang nagpasimula ng mainit na digmaan laban sa mga Muslim ng Maynila na pinamumunuan ng huling haring Muslim na si Rajah Soliman (ang pinuno ng mga Sultan sa Luzon).   Ipinagtangol ni Rajah Soliman ang kanyang kaharian ng buong tatag hanggang sa kahulihulihang hibla ng kanyang buhay na nangyari sa Bangkusay, (sa dalampasigan ng Tondo). Sa pagkatalo ni Soliman, ang mga Kasti

Comment by aireen (aisha) PALIMA on August 2, 2010 at 8:51am

May Allah give RAHMA to Phililppines and bring it back to the RELIGION islam . To all brothers and sisters in Islam please make DUA that Philippines will become an Islamic Country again. Ameen

Comment by Yusuf Ceasar on June 21, 2010 at 9:26am

Mashaallah...

PROBE TEAM interview with Oswalda Cabel a Honorary curator and administrator of National Museum, Sulu Branch, a prominent historian in the Philippines.

excerpts from her video interview.

The roots of conflict in Mindanao are deep. Oswalda Cabel, traces the war in Mindanao to the Holy Crusade. The problem started long before the crusades took place. During the crusades, they fought for 700 years more or less to possess the holy land and of course the muslims won on that crusades war. Politically religious because the crusades was more of political also but there was the religious undertone.

The hostility between muslims and christians that started in the crusade supposedly never ended. Spain brought it to the Philippines, when the entire country was still a muslim territory. About 200 years more or less, before magellan set put in cebu. He was a happy people because the Philippines was an islamic estate as early as the 13th century more or less. From luzon to tuguegarao to sulu, islamic state yan, that's why we have raja suliman, all of these rajah rajahs, these are malaysian terms... the philippines was a islamic state. now when magellan came, in the manner that they came, oppressive, colonnial, they disturb a happy people.

According to Cabel, a catholic, the spread of Christianity by the spaniards effectivey killed Islam in the Philippines. It was like a death sentence to our muslim ancestors. It was very very clear from the instructions written by the king of spain to the governors of the Philippines that to kill the muslims, wipe them out.

In the book by Blair and Robertson, the plan of the colonizers in the Philippines was clearly outlined. " That the Moro's, "because they try to prevent our trade with the natives, and preach to them the religion of Mahomet," may be enslaved and lose their property.

Cabel says our muslim ancestors, particularly those in Sulu and Mindanao who have been interacting with the Arabs for centuries, were like poison to the spaniards. They noticed that the people prayed the way the Moors did in spain, their appearance easily in Sulu or southern philippines, you will notice that they have the features of arabs because there were 2 or 3 centuries of arab interaction with the sulu people already, intermarriage and all that.

Force, instead of persuasion was used by the spaniards to convert filipinos to christianity. Except for the filipinos in southern philippines and when i talk of southern philippines, i mean mindanao and particularly the ARMM region but except for them the rest of the philippines were not able to stand up againts the force of colonialism and the spread of christianity.

The filipino rajas, the muslims, they were easily lured, the spaniards were well versed in if they don't use force or persuasion, they have other means of making people to accept them and so even those rajas before they were suppose to be datus or sultan they ended up in commenderos lang, they became overseer of the vast state that really culturally indegineous theirs.

Cabel is convinced that the long drawn-out war in mindanao is a carryover of the colonial period. "To a muslim, his religion specially, is the beginning and the end of his being as a total person, take it away from him and he is nothing."

Mujahideens and child soldiers are not aberrations of history. Their war is all about religion, the core of their being which they can never turn their backs on. This was what history and their forefathers taught them.

The first sound that a baby hears after birth are from his father who whispers into his ears the words Allahu Akhbar(God is great), La ilaha ill Allah(There is no other god but God). Remember that islam is a religion of peace, islam never taught them to kill innocent people, christians or whatever, islam does not fit that, but in the sense of their right, of their life, of their honor and above all of their religion, kill.