Blogging for peace in the heart in Mindanao-Marawi

  

  Peace as being defined by Mr Abdul into 4 components peace within yourself, between you and god, your relationship to people, to neighbors and to the environment.

  

  Mindanao-Marawi is not all about war. This is not a war zone where in fact there are many students here that is came from other places who studied in here and safely graduated and are professionals today.

Last November 30, 2016 we the marketing 111 students together with our instructor Prof. Richard Celeste  promotes our advocacy for peace in Mindanao. We have our tour inside the MSU .We all know that news is very bias this is the power of social media . It was being the highlight in the news that    there was a bomb here in Marawi and it is not true.    

  We as a students that is currently studying here try to help Mindanao-Marawi by capturing and saying our thoughts about it. I hope that everyone  will not be one sided only and I hope that everyone  will do the same. Simple action even though just a little bit it gives a very big help.

               PROUD TO BE A MINDANAON. 

Mini Forum

  Last November 30, 2016 the mini forum was held at CBAA Canteen with the guest speaker sultan of Marawi, executive officer, Mr. Abdul Hamidullah Atar. It was my great pleasure to meet and listen to his talk.

  One of the highlight that Mr. Abdul talked about is peace. Mr Abdul shared about the reasons and the impact to the indigenous people about the doctrine. Then after that he also shared the 5 approaches of Quran such as social contract, reconciliation, good governance, economic development and freedom. Social contract is all about the protection, respect especially in terms of religion. Reconciliation means that the girl should have the right also, good economic development means that those “pautang”  should be demolished and lastly the freedom that those people who are slave were no longer be a slave. See how these approaches are. In talking about freedom then peace was defined by Mr Abdul into 4 components the peace within yourself, between you and god, your relationship to people, to neighbors and to the environment. Muslims is composed of many tribes, one of those is Meranao. Meranao is homogenous means they are a group that protected their    relatives or each other.

 

Mr.ABDUL HAMIDULLAH ATAR

I learned something that afternoon and I also I realized something important that Muslims should not be judged by everyone.

Familiarization Tour

    Familiarization tour sounds great and exciting. Doing this kind of
activity is not just for fun but also promoting the beauty of MSU as well as peace to everyone. Let’s check it out.

    Last November 30, 2016 the marketing 111 together with our
instructor Prof. Richard Celeste conducted a tour in MSU. Assembly is in our college, 6:30 a.m. our first destination is in MSU 3D everyone took photos on it and we conducted an exercise with the beautiful sunrise behind us. How beautiful the creations made by GOD. Second destination is in the place where it is cold not because it is raining but because of the tall tress surrounded in the place. Most color that you noticed is green and it is so refreshing in that place. Third is in golf course, the wide and beautiful golf course ever a place where you can unwind and relax. It is so fresh in there that you don’t want to go home because of the atmosphere of the place. We have our
parlor games there and it is so enjoyable. Forth destination is in
Aga Khan museum where you can saw the different preserved and cultural artifacts of meranao people. Fifth is in Ayala resort where you can take a look the wonderful views there and also the different houses that represents the different tribe of muslims. Sixth is in the KFCIAAS where you can find the big masjid (Muslims church) and lastly is in the entrance of MSU.

    The tour was very successful though it is so hot but it is all worth it because in my 3 years here in MSU it is my first time to visit some of those places.

AGA KHAN MUSEUM

AGA KHAN MUSEUM

One of the significant landmarks in Marawi City “Aga Khan Museum”.

Last November 30, 2016 in our familiarization tour in MSU one of our stops is in Aga Khan Museum. Accordingly Aga Khan  is named after Prince Karim Aga Khan IV , where donation made the construction of the building possible. It was opened on June 13, 1962.

The inauguration of the Aga Khan museum of Islamic arts was on March 23, 1969 attended by miss Gemma Cruz-Araneta who gave brief remarks before the ceremonial ribbon cutting. It was also attended by senators Domocao Alonto and Mamintal Tamano Listen. The ribbon was cutted by miss Geneva Cruz-Araneta that uses the meranao kris to officially open the museum and assisted by Dr. Antonio Isidro, Mrs Isidro and Mrs. Linang Mandangan.

There is also a picture of the first commencement exercise 1966 it was attended by late President Ferdinanand Marcos together with his better half.

What’s inside the Aga Khan?  There are many cultural artifacts that were preserved. Check it out. . .

 The torogan as replica meranao traditional house, a traditional royal house.

Awang as meranao boat painted with okir designs.  

Indigenous people costumes.

 

 They also have a paying “a diyakatan” a meranao ceremonial parasol decorated with different colors of sequins and beads.

Next is the different species:

                   

The tarsier 

 

                                                                                            

                                      Big eagle 

         

        Deer( citvos) 

 

 and others.  Lets check it out the OKIR GALLERY:

 

 

 

OTHER BEAUTIFUL CULTURAL ARTIFACTS. . .

 

The ceramics displayed in the museum were projects of MSU-Filipinas Foundation. The designs adopted the Maranao art, okir.

 

a replica of a traditional royal bed.

Meranao culture is very unique and until now they preserved their cultural artifacts, they gave value to all of them which is good and inspiring.

Exploring the Aga Khan makes me think how beautiful and amazing it is. In my 3 years of staying in MSU it is my second time to visit Aga Khan but still it never fails to amaze me.