WAAQ • Somalia's Ancient Religious Order

Waaq (also Waq or Waaqa) is the name for the sky God in the Cushitic languages of both the Oromo people and Somali people in the Horn of Africa. The word still means God in present Oromo language. Some traditions indicate Waaq is associated with the Harar region.

In Oromo and Somali culture, Waaq, Waaqa or Waaqo was the name of God in their pre-Christian and pre-Muslim monotheistic faith believed to have been adhered to by Cushitic groups. It was likely brought to the Horn by the speakers of the Proto-Cushitic language who arrived from North Sudan in the Neolithic. In modern times, the religion has mostly declined ever since the arrival of Islam and Christianity.

This name for God was used mainly by Somali people and Oromo people before and after Christianity and Islam came to the Horn of Africa There are also ancient names of villages which involve the word (WAAQ) in the Somali language and also Oromo language.

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[NafaqoHerbal]

Waaq means Allah,
it is the ancient name we used to call Allah.

we are happy that today we are all 100% Muslim community.

[gjwehliye]

So, somalis were almost pure monotheistic people before Islam . No wonder Allah choose Islam for us! Alhamdullilah.

[MB]

The most intriguing observation according to Pilgrims and Syncretism, "The Oromo take pride in their black skin which they relate to Waaqa's own divine blackness. We believe the Waaqa is also black just like us (Waaqa quracca)..." He walks the earth in the form of an Old Man.

[momoadem]

Al hamdulilah 3ala ni3mati alislam❤ thanks for the video guys, it was really interresting !

[GreaterSomaliya]

There are also Somali towns and cities that relate to this religion such as the town of Caabudwaaq (literally meaning “worship waaq), Ceel-waaq (well of Waaq). Waaq denotes the single god of the early pre- Abrahamic, monotheistic faith believed to have been adhered

[MikeJones-ydkf]

May Allah unite the Somali people. May they reconcile and unite as one people.

[datospora]

In Sanskrit language too Ayyaana means the same as in Oromo & Somali "Guardian Spirits/Angel of Ancestors"

[IbnSharif]

I would recommend to check out the history of the Oromo people in this regard. They are by far the biggest ethnic group in Ethiopia/horn of Africa, and still have a population that practices this religion (Waqeefena) which is considered native to them. They are now a majority Muslim people, but they still have some people that practice this faith and they have preserved its rituals the best.

[abdul-wadud]

Alhamdulilah for Islam, All thanks and praise is due to Allah for guiding us to the truth and eliminating arrogance

[minnoone]

I wish there was info about ancient religions and cultures!

[munaelmimohamed]

My great grandmother was from Egypt my father is from Ethiopia somali part his Muslim but my auntie still practiced the ancient religion

[K_idk]

See we just been monotheistic most our lines and I am very happy that Allah came to our land

[caydidgroup]

Wow our people always submitted to oneness of God we were never idol worshippers it makes perfect sense why our whole nation embraced islam so fast and early our ancestors were like this is what we already believe just more detailed amazing Somalia is truly the land of GOD, Waaq is probaly the oldest monothestic religion on earth much older then judaism

[kckc]

We have kiblatayn in swahili coast lands that one you mention is not the first one, is one of many we have in East african coast

[justsmiled]

ALHAMDULILLAH for the blessing of Islam❤❤

[eyerusalemmekonen]

Praise waaq ...elililili...my ancestors had good understand of divinity better than anyone, I am proud of ancient kush people Somali oromo, Afar...etc

[pretenderfaisal]

Eebe or waaq mean God Somalis wr never been idol washippers coz back on time the teaching of Moses ( AS) reached to Somalis and Somalis accepted and thats why Somalis took Islam as whole they wr always believed thr is God and when they heard the prophet mohamed (pbuh) and the teaching of Islam the all believed Islam., Alhamdillah to be Somali

[NorthStarGlobalInsight]

Waaq is also ancient arabic word as also somali, it was mentioned in quran:13:34 and 37, 40:21 وما لهم من الله من واق ...meaning they have no protector(god) except Allah

[Ugaas]

Waq just means god in ancient Somali the same with ebbe and ra

[ahmedabdi]

Waaq and Eebbe are one and the same. They were used by ancient Somalis in reference to deity or more appropriately God. Mordern Somalus hardly mention them, instead they call Allah in their place. I, personally, often use Eebbe rather than Allah. That doesn’t translate that I am not Muslim but just to keep our ancestors’s traditions alive!