The Fake News merchants do not just do it for fun. The leaders of the fake news business do sponsor the so-many out of job young Nigerians & pay them some token to buy data, buy a day's meal & buy a power bank. With a cheap android phone, the space for spreading mischief is on.
The Govt isn't doing enough to take care of the so many challenges of the society. The poverty rate, unemployment & poor governance and insecurity are too much for a nation like ours to survive. At the end, we are only giving chances for mischief makers to sell every lie to the
people and they will buy. When leaders lost the goodwill of the followers, trust and confidence evade the led & leadership becomes a very big problem.
To all the leaders in Nigeria in whatever capacity, you are not doing enough. Do more for us, in your own capacities.
To us the followers, we are as bad as the leaders or even worse. If you want to know, go to any public office & demand a service that should be rendered free, you will be asked to pay 'something' for that service. You will do the same when someone comes into your own office.
We are just a reflection of our leaders, perfectly so. So many of the changes we are talking about should come from us. Take a look at any developed country that is doing well, they are not as irresponsible & ill-behaved as we are. Such attitudes cannot make our situation better.
It is a collective effort we must put together. Some of these changes cannot be guaranteed if we do not come all of us together to salvage the situation. We do not have anywhere we will call home like Nigeria. We must work together to make it habitable for all of us.
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Please is there anything I am not getting on the issue of this Rahma Sauda lady? I know I have not been consistently following the most recent happenings on this street, thanks to some new developments. However, the little I gathered is what I will talk about. Correct me where I
go wrong. A random Hausa actress, which so many of you watch in your homes for entertainment displayed herself in a manner that the Islamic culture doesn't approve of. Obviously, she revealed part of her body, the same way some of you that play football display part of yours.
She wore a dress that revealed her Awrah, & some of you playing football also wear shorts that reveal part of your Awrah. Awrah is Awrah and sin is sin, whether it is committed by Sadau or Sadi. There was an illogical & counterproductive approach to correcting her, because
When we hear the word "Leaders", our minds quickly take us to the presidents, governors, senators, emirs, and so on. But we all are leaders in our own rights and we all will be questioned by Allah on what we have been given the responsibility to look after.
Abdullah ibn Umar reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Every one of you is a shepherd and is responsible for his flock. The leader of people is a guardian and is responsible for his subjects.
A man is the guardian of his family and he is responsible for them. A woman is the guardian of her husband’s home and his children and she is responsible for them. The servant of a man is a guardian of the property of his master and he is responsible for it.
Someone who is out of job is jobless. But it doesn't sound honorable to address someone who lost his job as jobless. My former Professor who moved to a major oil company to work in a developer country lost his job yesterday, & he texted me to say, "Abubakar, I am now jobless".
I had an awkward feeling when he said that, although it was followed by an emoji 🙂, I responded as thus:
"you are only out of job sir, but you can never be jobless...", & I told him how much we have benefitted from him & the world of engineering as a whole.
I don't think anyone will choose to be jobless, especially as the global economy pinches so hard.
May Allah bless our little efforts & provide us more genuine and legal ways to earn a living. May we all get the job of our dreams & make positive impacts when we do.
The challenge before every leader in Northern Nigeria today is how to secure the people you are leading. Forget roads & bridges, ghosts & dead bodies don't need them. When you can't secure the people you are leading, you have failed as a leader.
It is important to understand that there is little or nothing that matters to people when they're unsecured. They want to be secured before they can appreciate anything. To our Governors, especially @GovKaduna, @KTSGovt, @Zamfara_state, @NigerStateNG & others, this goes to you.
We had expected the Arewa House meeting to begin & end on insecurity, but it wasn't. A small portion of the discussion was what the Decision Note carried, although it was said that more than that has been discussed during the meeting. We sincerely want to believe so.
EVEN WHEN THE HONOR OF THE PROPHET (SAW) IS BEING ABUSED, ISLAM DOESN'T PERMITS VIOLENCE, PROTEST OR VANDALIZATION AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSING ANGER OR DISAGREEMENT. How then do we express our anger over this?
~Shaykh Dr. Salih Ibn Fawzaan Al-fawzaan (Rahmatullah Alaih) responds:
Undoubtedly, it is a most that every Muslim expresses his or her anger over an insult or Invasion of the sanctity of our Noble Prophet (SAW). However, this anger is one that comes with regulations. What is needed most is the application of evidences from Qur'an & Sunnah as well
as current affairs and from the pages of history; evidence-based facts that will explain his honor as against the insults said on him (peace of Allah be upon him). But for any form of violence, vandalization or protest, they contradict the guidance of our Prophet (SAW).