COTABATO CITY – A Sultan from a prominent clan in Maguindanao province in southern Philippines on Monday called on Muslims in Mindanao to work for peace and development and cut the divisions surrounding them.
Datu Sansaluna Pinagayao, who was enthroned at El Manor Hotel here on June 7 as the head of Royal clans in the Sultanate of Linantangan Darussalam, said he envisioned a homeland where everybody is helping one another for the future generations.
“I wanted to encourage everybody to work for peace in our ways. Let’s help spread the development in our own community,” he said. “Let’s set aside the politics issues. You know in the times of our forefathers, there were no problems because it’s easily settled by our families.”
At the same time, Sultan Pinagayao said his enthronement forms part of their campaign to revive their sacred tradition and culture as well strengthen the clans by reviving a functional Sultanate of Linantangan Darussalam.
Datu Abdulrahman Abutazil Ameril-Asim, the chairman of Council of Elders, said they came up with the vision of having a model delighting and charming communities of the Bangsamoro in their homeland, fashioned by a mission of “committed and aims at upbringing social stratification of generations and the Bangsamoro peoples in their homeland helpful in the establishment of “Darussalam” (Land of Peace) in the Bangsamoro homeland.
He said their group adopted goal and objectives of providing the initiative direction, namely: strengthening the causes and foundations of unity, collaboration and cooperation; educating the generations and other stakeholders on “Islamic Jurisprudence” as tool of attaining desirable morality; advocating good governance with the essence of “Islamic
Jurisprudence” as practiced and manifested by our forefathers; and Facilitating; participating in the adoption of mechanism for the establishment of “Darussalam” (Land of Peace); and establishing linkages, networking and coalition for attaining relevant
Awareness, education, culture, economic, environment and even political stratification in the Bangsamoro communities.
“We believed the enthronement of Pinagayao and Datu Na Linantangan with the members of the Royal Cabinet and Royal Ladies is a first hand strategy for attaining the goal and objectives, more particularly on strengthening the causes and foundations of unity, collaboration and cooperation of the generations and other stakeholders, and upbringing the processes in attaining “Peace and Development” in support to the present “Peace building” initiatives,” Datu Abdulrahman explained.
Sultan Pinagayao was born in Tukanalipao, a village in Mamasapano in Maguindanao and currently is the Administrator at the Philippine Economic Zone Authority in Mactan, Cebu.
The sultanate’s sovereignty was dissolved in early 20th century when Spanish Governor General Emilio Terrero personally led a military expedition in Maguindanao. (Mark Navales)
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