However, as he received many calls from the people of "Chorre", the seat of his father and where he passed his childhood life, he founded his scholarship center there and began his teachings. Our sources say that Sheikh Muhammad Rashid could bring a big change shortly after he launched his scholarly tutorship. And it was there that he was engaged to his first wife, a Somali woman called "Zeynaba Libaah", and had a son who could live only for two weeks (The boy's name was Muhammad Tahir and he died on his 16th day).[13] During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia around 1940, Sheikh Muhammad Rashid moved his scholarship center to a small town of Kooraa on Ethio-Djibouti railway line and tutored there for some brief time.