Thread by @sman0074

@daily_trust In defence of Hisbah, and why @Shatu_Garko has missed the point! @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi
Why are so many people, especially the western educated ones, so alarmed, monstrous, hair-raising and pained by the recent activities of Hisbah, the Islamic religious police?

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Some have even kept their noses to the grindstone, by labelling the whole region misogynistic and barbaric. In their usual dogmatic and parochial characteristics, have inferred that they would rather prefer to see the Hisbah as philogyny and accommodating

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi to the affront and abuses on Islam by some misled and imprudent people? In their misguided hypocrisy, they see the operations of the Hisbah as sanctimonious and insincere. But in their pietism of the poor failed to call out all security establishments for the same speciousness.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Making excuses for the perpetrators, allowing emotions to cloud their judgements, and serially distorting facts to support their chauvinistic opinions.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Because, like Hisbah, I am sure no police officer in his or her right senses in Nigeria, would want to arrest the son or daughter of an Emir, or a Governor, let alone the president and commander in chief.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi It's a well know and entrenched fact that the poor have been disproportionately harmed by police and other security forces' operations not only in Nigeria but globally. Simply because of the fact that, the top brass and bigwigs call the shots.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi And like the popular saying, "he who pays the piper, dictates the tune". The Hisbah officers and their operations may not be what we want or even close to it, but its sure a good starting point for the most sought after finished product, a virtuous and irreproachable society.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Moral ineptitude and impecunious standards among Hisbah officers are widespread and are considered as a concern for a variety of reasons. One is that they are frequently regarded as the pinnacle of morality, with people expecting them to maintain impeccable Islamic morals

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi as enforcers of Islamic law and serve as the "ultimate stopover." But if they are judged to be unfit, like everyone else, then all hell breaks loose. There is an implicit assumption in most mainstream discussions of the recent Hisbah activities connected to the Hijab

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Muslim girl's participation in a beauty contest, that the Hisbah are not supposed to act or criticise her participation. in spite of that, and after all, is said and done amid the growing criticism of them, that is what they were primarily created to do.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi I would personally be ashamed and unhappy to see them bow to pressure because of the negative press they have been subjected to of late.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Hisbah is an Islamic morality organisation established to checkmate excesses in society and ensure that the Islamic moral codes of conduct are propagated in Kano and beyond. At least, for now their activities are more visible in the state.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Although, they may not have the solutions to all problems in society, but they have done their utmost best in curbing some social vices that may hitherto grow out of control, recalcitrant and intractable and cause greater damage to individuals, families and communities.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Problems such as illicit drugs abuse, marijuana, alcoholism, prostitution, gambling, thuggery, murders, vandalism, and to mention but a few. We may be tempted to question the legality of their establishment and operations but so was the Sharia penal code in the Northern region.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Many largely Muslim states in Northern Nigeria decided to implement Sharia law in 1999. Many views the implementation of the Islamic shariah as oppressive to only the poor. But the Southern part of the country also have their own regional laws.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Hisbah has been in the news recently for all the ostensible wrong reasons, from lewd and immodest celebrities and pompadour hairdo among the poor, to high end society weddings involving the son's and the daughters of the rich, famous and powerful and more recently enforcing an

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Islamic viewpoint and law regarding one Shatu Garko, a hijab wearing sister, who infamously got involved in a beauty contest with some non-Muslims and expectedly went home with the coveted crown as the most beautiful girl in the country.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Many Muslims have justified her participation in such a contest and have disingenuously come to her staunch defence citing many unreasonable and preposterous things from her fundamental human rights, to her exemplary Islamic mode of dressing and more hilariously some stonewalled

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi even castigated the whole region as misogynistic and enumerated why the Hisbah has no moral right to invite her or her parents for questioning. First of all, is beauty contest or other contests of any kind allowed under Islamic jurisprudence?

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi Apart of course from honourable and legitimate contests such as competitions for memorising The Qur’an and the Sunnah of the prophet (SAW). More so, the girl in question participated in a competition with non-believers.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi She perhaps was allowed to win the crown to entice other would-be Muslim girls to participate. a critical look at the exegesis of some Qur’anic verses would put to bed her participation in a contest of that nature.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi We have heard of so many duplicitous claims that such contest have also taken place in other hard-core Islamic nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Bahrain. But even that cannot be a justification to allow our Muslim girls and women to take part in such disreputable competition

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi organised by people who are through and through anti-Muslimism and hate anything Islamic. Why do people forget in a hurry Islamic stand on such inglorious and scandalous liberal western values and ideals?

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi But thank God, nobody goes faster than the legs they have? Particularly, if we recall how Thisday newspaper in Abuja was attacked and burned by insurgents for publishing an article insulting the prophet Muhammad (SAW) a similar contest.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi After the brutal conflicts that happened between Muslims and Christians sparked by the blasphemous article in ThisDay, I am sure no sane and rational thinking Muslim would want anything to do with the undignified competition.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi The Miss World riots were a sad reminder to this beauty contest. Every Muslim must be alarmed and rightly so to see a misguided young lady hell bent on repeating the past.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi At least, 215 people were killed during the three days of violence and carnage that ensured in Kaduna, reportedly sparked by Muslim wrath over Nigeria's hosting of Miss World and the published comments made by some infidels.

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi If for anything, we should not be seen close to a beauty pageant, at the minimum, not in this world.
I think we have a moral obligation as Muslims to be outraged and condemned it head-on not only because it's un-Islamic,

@daily_trust @Shatu_Garko @MissNigeria @farooqkperogi but because the organisers are clandestinely using it as bait to entice our children and more importantly because they have used it beforehand to insult the prophet (SAW).