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Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by MisterGrace: 6:19am On Jan 26, 2017 |
And then they used the fear of losing out on 72 virgins, rivers of wine and fire of hell to hypnotize and deceived them. Although more than half of the real Hausas are Christians, except for the foolanis. |
Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by PAGAN9JA(m): 7:56am On Jan 29, 2017 |
Rossikki: shut up. Indians venerate cows more than anyone. doesnt make us Indians. it is a nomadic pastoral thing. 1 Like |
Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by plappville(f): 10:22am On Feb 08, 2017 |
I'm not sure they have one. They better retrieve themselves back to the old days when they were not terrorists. Islam has made them wicked and heartless. |
Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by EazyMoh(m): 12:21pm On Feb 08, 2017 |
Well the main reason why you never hear of pre-Islamic Hausaland is mainly due to lack any extraordinary practice in that time. Practice like killing of twins or human sacrifice I mean. It was a simple pagan land with the people practicing African religion with their simple rituals like "Wasan Dodo" (Masquarade) "Chamfi" (Superstitions) and animal sacrifice. Though some deities are specific to a particular place like the Tsumburbura as mentioned by friendchoice, the traditional practices are generally the same. For example in 2003 Jigawa state government banned Masquarade celebrations which take place every harvest season, because it traced back to when those Masquarades where considered deities and worshiped. Sule Lamido later lifted the ban in 2007. Interestingly there are remote villages up till this day that retain those pagan practices, and are not Muslims neither do they bear Muslim names. They are Maguzawa, significant amount of Warjawa and so on. The detail of those practices can be found in The Kano Chronicles. What pagan9ja was writing especially the Bori isn't actually a form of religion, but a sport or a practice. Up till this day there are Muslims who practice Bori. I know this because my home town is the home of Dan Kawu Mai Garaya. Whenever he plays the Bori people will gather where each of them would be possessed by their preferred spirit like those pagan9ja mentioned. So you see its not that there wasn't traditional religion before Islam, it's just it's now part of Hausaland's very distant history. Unlike Christianity that was brought few centuries ago, Islam has been in Hausaland in a large extent for more than a millenia. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by LucemFerre: 11:25am On Apr 26, 2018 |
PAGAN9JA: Hello, Happy new year... Can you please give me a reference I can read about the Hausa/Fulani ancient gods? Or can you please complete the "etc's" you mentioned and what each deity represent? e.g sango = thunder Thank you |
Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by HappyPagan: 11:38am On Apr 26, 2018 |
Rilwayne001:this man. |
Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by Fula123: 6:09am On Apr 29, 2019 |
We don’t have a traditional african religion because we originated in the Middle East which is technically Africa or Kush. If black people ruled the world the Middle East wouldn’t be named that. It would be classified as north west Africa. That said, So we were either Christian, Jew or Islamic (mostly Islamic). When I say Jew im talking about law of Moses type religions. Hebrew & Egyptian religions. But before that I’m sure we worshipped some pagan gods like the rest of the world. Most likely Egyptian gods and goddesses. Some Fula originated in Egypt. Some originated in Israel/Palestine. We originated in the Middle East. I would be remiss to not add the fact that true original “middle easterns” are african as the so called Middle East is a part of Africa. Basically what I’m trying to say is: ISLAM & Christianity ARE traditional African religions. |
Re: What was the traditional religion of the Hausas or fulani before Islam by PAGAN9JA(m): 9:11pm On Aug 28, 2020 |
Hausa Boori Practitioner.
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