A Teacher’s dream to build
heaven on earth gets to a solid foundation as people begin to accept his idea to
consolidate the realization of the dream. It is written in the scriptures that
when it comes to burying the dead, any contribution towards it attracts
countless reward reserved for you in the hereafter.
The idea to provide building
blocks at the Wa Main Cemetery to facilitate the burial of the dead which hitherto
was a headache and a double agony for many bereaved families was conceived by a
professional teacher who was born and bred at Dondoli, a suburb of Wa in the
Upper West Region.
Volume 4 of Fiqh – us – Sunnah
page 61a states that there was a consensus that burying a dead body and
covering it was a collective obligation.
It clarified that If some
Muslims bury the dead body, it would absolve the rest of them from this
obligation. Allah, the Almighty, says: "Have We not caused the earth to hold
within itself the living and the dead?" Qur'an 77 25-26.
A retired Missionary of the
Ahmadiyya Mission, Mualim Alhassan Saeed of Wa Jujeidayiri described the project
as a novelty. He said that the reward for such a venture was endless and those
who are involved in it would be exalted in spirit. He prayed for the sustenance
of the project.
Another Islamic Scholar of Wa Zongo,
Imam Alhassan Muazu did not mince words. He disclosed that the Prophet of
Islam, Prophet Mohammed on whom peace be likened the reward of such a noble
work to a mountain as high as the Ombonawura at Ombo.
“On that day will men proceed
in companies sorted out to be shown the deeds that they (had done) then, shall
anyone who has done an atom’s weight of good see it” Holy Quran CH. 99 vs 6-7.
According to the founder of
the project, Mohammed Damba Issah it came to him as a great worry when people
passed on and how to bury them became a difficult task.
He lamented that it was
increasingly becoming a phenomenon as components of burial at the cemetery such
as blocks was a breeding grounds for clashing of individual faiths.
Mohammed explained that each
time somebody dies the community folks just pounced on any available blocks
regardless of who owned them.
He described as chaotic where
in certain instances where people who are not well to do struggled to mould
blocks for specific purposes but before they could use them, they were cleared by
the community for the use of burial of deceased members of the community which
he argued was causing uneasy calm among kinsmen.
The Professional Teacher
narrated that he had contemplated about how to remedy the situation for some
time before he was convinced that making blocks available at the cemetery
solely for burial of the dead was a worthy course.
He said that he fully launched
into the project by first using his salary to buy sixty (60) bags of cement and
other complementary materials for the commencement of the cemetery blocks
project.
Mohammed stated that he
further advocated the idea of the project to his fellow teachers and they were
also convinced that the project was worth its sort.
Even though he did not Want to
beg people with a bowl in hand, he kept spreading the idea until it got to the attention
of one business man who has since taken up the provision of materials such sand
and water at the site.
So far, the project has produced
in excess of 6000 blocks. Now the sustainability of the project is being strengthened
by putting a steering committee to ensure that the project remained eternal.
Mohammed Damba Issah concluded
that the goal he is seeking to achieve cannot be accomplished by one man alone.
He
therefore called on benevolent society individuals to join hands and
make the project a sustainable one. Interested parties contact this #
0243786484
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