However, the Sheikh's suffering from illness might be counted as simple matter if we consider the greater sufferings that came to him from the military junta of the Dergue that hold the Ethiopian government in 1974. The Dergue, being an ant-faith regime, used to watch the sheikh's teaching and community leadership activities carefully. This was intensified when his patriotic son called Ahmad Taqi was martyred at the Battle of Tiro on September 6/ 1974.