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4 unusual facts about Sheikh Muhammad Rashid Bilal


Sheikh Muhammad Rashid Bilal

Sheikh Muhammad Rashid was a son of Sheikh Bilal Kabir Muhammad, a prominent Sheikh from the Qallu clan of the Ittu Oromo.

However, Sheikh Muhammed Rashid didn’t transmit this Tidjani order ( Tariqa ) of Sufism at all.

Sheikh Muhammed Rashid was also trained in the Essentials and Rightful approaches of Sufism under this beloved Sheikh of him and took the “wazifa”(transmission right) of the Tidjani order of Sufism.

After the birth of Khalisa, Sheikh Bilal had changed his seat to a distant village called Chorre in today’s Guba Qoricha district of West Harerghe Zone where he became one of the early Muslim scholars who campaigned to Islamize the Ittu Oromo in Guba Qoricha.



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