LET US POUR OIL ON TROUBLED WATER

LET US POUR OIL ON TROUBLED WATER

I could still remember when I used to sit by my grandfather whose tales made me prick up my ears to the stories of his teenage time, when peace is every where. Those times, rattling of guns could only be heard in the bush when hunters were hunting.

But today the story is not the same. I once sat down chewing the end of overcoming our tribulations, as many committees were set out, many meetings held here and there, now and then, curfews ……… but all these efforts end in smoke.

It is a maxim that sin of any kind can cause danger to a society. Wow! There is problem! Please, how often were you caught red handed with the wife of you neighbor pants down?!

The mesmerizing speeches of preachers that can make a mad dog calm down and sleep to the end of the world are just for show off.

Usury roams about freely in our markets, bribes, cheatings… Uhm! I certainly don’t want to add to our present predicaments or become a contributor to our destruction, I therefore have to repent. I repent. My friends please repent, repent, and repent for the sake of our future generation. Please for the sake our present time let us pour oil on troubled water.

MOTHER NIGERIA

MOTHER NIGERIA

Our Social Studies teacher told us that there are three main tribes in Nigeria. Blessed pregnant Mother Nigeria was diagnosed by a doctor who told her that she is going to give birth to three children. On delivery, compassionate Mother Nigeria named one of the triplets Mr. North and asked him to live in the north. She named the second child Mr. South and southern part of the country was made to be his dwelling place. The third child who decided to settle in the east was named Mr. East.

Mother Nigeria owns a very large herd of cattle which she entrusted its rearing to Mr. North and Mr. South successively. As good and responsible children, Mr. North and Mr. South did their best in keeping the herd healthy and secured through the provision of veterinaries and strong shepherds who are ever ready to guard the cattle at the price of their own lives. To prevent the cattle from hunger they introduced valuable programs like Operation Feed the Nation, Green Revolution, Back to Land etc. Beside these, they constructed good roads and bridges for the cattle to roam about freely in the country in search of pasture.

Alas! Poor Mother Nigeria! She is now 54 years of age, seriously in need of help and support, Mr. East assumes the responsibility of taking care of the cattle. Unfortunately, many of the cattle were mercilessly murdered. Well we are not surprised. Mr. East had once made Mother Nigeria cry in 1966 when he executed the first bloody coup which engulfed many excellent cattle from the north and south. Since then, Mother Nigeria had pogroms, political paralysis, a vicious civil war, depression, unrest fueling ……..

My friends, I am very sorry for the grammatical errors, I don’t mean to make them BUT NA DEM WAKA COM.      

TRIBUTE TO ALBANI ZARIA

“....Look at the services (da muke) rendering to the society, to the government itself, but look at how they pay it back to us on a negative side of it....” [sic]

-         Muhammad Auwal Adam Albani

Saturday, February 1, 2014, about four or five hours to his assassination. Cassette number 172 of Sahih Muslim 

If the killing of Islamic scholars can make people become mealy mouthed fellows, Albani could have not become a scholar. This is because, many God fearing, well learned men whose pen and tongue portray the truth and keep people religiously  informed  were murdered long before Albani was born, and many would be assassinated now and in the near future. That is why imprisonment, torture, killing at most had not become a wet blanket to Malam Albani.

Allahu Akbar! The assassination of Malam Albani reminds me of a verse in the Glorious Quran:

AND MANY A PROPHET FOUGT (In Allah Cause) AND ALONG WITH HIM (fought) A LARGE BAND OF RELIGIOUS LEARNED MEN. BUT THEY NEVER LOST HEART FOR THAT WHICH DID BEFALL THEM IN ALLAH’S WAY, NOR DID THEY WEAKEN NOR DEGRADE THEMSELVES AND ALLAH LOVES THE PATIENT (Q3:146)

What is worrying me seriously most is the bad reward with which Nigerians honoured Albani. He was given appointment to serve in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where his life would be a bed of roses, but he rejected the offer saying: I love my people, my country needs me, I want to let my people know the sunnah of my Master, Muhammad Rasulullahi. 

Poor Albani! He did not know that his country is plotting against him. Uhm!       I really commensurate with him.

I have to let the killers and all those behind it know that:

1.     Albani was only killed but not defeated. His footprints in the sand of time will never be wiped out. His teachings, motivations, awareness, revolution, will surely be in existence till when Allah (swa) will inherit the land and all that is upon it.

2.     Albani is a big gun, not only in Nigeria but the world at large. His funeral had revealed the truthfulness of what I have said. The land of Zazzau had never before witnessed a funeral like Albani’s. In fact it is a funeral like no other.

3.     Albani was a hero. In heroism and hardworking, he was not comparable to any contemporary scholar. What he was shouldering alone and alone during his life time is now shared among some well learned men.

4.     Albani had gone and left you with your dirty Nigeria. May his soul rest in perfect peace. May Allah accept his martyrdom. Amen

To his successors, I have to say: you should remember that you have worn a battle-dress and the verge on then either side of the path to the battle field is very thorny. Patience, perseverance and God fearing are the prerequisite for gaining success in daawa.

What a pity! Hauwa’u, a little girl of just three years asked one of our grandmother, “Yafindo, me Albani ya yi musu su ka kashe shi?” meaning : Why did they killed Albani? This question made the old woman to burst into tears that even her tear duct had witnessed that the old woman was sad about the homicide. The tears of this old woman and that of all who sobbed over the carnage would rip the killers and their sponsors up! Amen