Tanzanian Miraculous Boy, 5yrs, Converts 1,000+ To Islam Part 1/2.

According to a huge number of online sources, a 5 year old Kenyan boy - sometimes he's claimed to be Tanzanian or Nigerian - can recite the entire Qur'an and preach in at least 5 languages. The boy is alleged to have converted thousands of people all over the world. This article which was printed in the "Scotland on Sunday" newspaper seems to be the original source for the story circulating on a large number of Islamic websites:

There are orphans and street children everywhere. So much so that the sight of another small child standing on a street corner hardly merits a second glance. But only when the boy opens his mouth to speak do onlookers realise that Shariff Idd is special. The five year-old speaks in five languages - English French Italian, Swahili and Arabic - even though he is completely uneducated. Shariff is a preacher who draws crowds of thousands in Kenya to his increasingly regular sermons. The Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al Gaddafi is a great supporter following an audience with him earlier this year. Last week was a milestone for the child introduced to gawping throngs as the "miracle boy" of East Africa. He smiled triumphantly when told he had notched up his one thousandth conversion to Islam in a country where Muslims are a minority.
Tours of France and Britain now beckon, according to Hajji Maroulin, one of the boy's four guardians. he will travel as a missionary on a trip to e financed by a Muslim businessman from the Ivory Coast. "When he is not preaching he is just like any other kid - he likes Tom and Jerry cartoons, particularly." Maroulin said. "But when he preaches he changes. At one year old he was able to recite the Koran and went on to be able to preach in Arabic, Swahili and french without any learning. The number of his converts is growing daily." For a child he has strangely adult mannerisms. He speaks confidently, mainly in Swahili unless he is delivering a sermon. Then, he fixes his piercing brown eyes on the person he is addressing without inhibition. His squeaky child-like voice mesmerizes audiences. According to Maroulin, Shariff was born into a Swahili-speaking Catholic family in Arusha, north Tanzania in December 1993: "At the age of two months he refused to suckle his mother's milk and at the age of four months he started reciting verses from the Holy Koran."


Scan of the article which was printed in "Scotland on Sunday"; August 8, 1999 - Click for larger image
The boy's first words - "You people repent and you will be accepted by God." - were in Arabic. his concerned parents believed him to be disturbed by "demons" and called pastors to pray for the baby. Eventually, Muslim neighbors interpreted their son's alien speech and his parents later converted to Islam themselves. Although his father died in 1997, his mother remains in Tanzania while her worldly son continues his travels. There is no doubting his pulling-power and in a commercial world his entourage has been quick to produce videos of the high-pitched sermons. He has also been deemed genuine by Kenya's Muslim World League. Kaplich Barsito, 35 from Nairobi, saw Shariff in action addressing a crowd of more than 1,000 in an open are at the Pumwani district of Kenya's capital, and is in no doubt of the boy's abilities.
"He was like a politician, very confident," he said. "He seemed as though he would have been disappointed if there had been less people. The power went off and his minders wanted him to stop but he grabbed a loudspeaker and carried on in Swahili, English and Arabic It was very impressive and he mesmerized the audience with a focused sermon." Shariff himself seems mystified about his power. He said last week that he picked up languages as soon as he heard. "I went to Congo and heard people speaking Lingala (the local language). I just was able to start speaking it."

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