"One of the most revered virtues of the Late Sheikh Gummi was his rare ascetic and mystic life. He did not profess or proclaim Sufism, but his life was glaringly more austere than most of the self-styled sufis of our day. Like we see today, many Muslim scholars (in all their sectarian strands –the Darika, the Izala, the Salafis) are desperately struggling to move closer to people in power in order to enjoy various sorts of undue privileges and material gains. If he had had the tendency for amassing wealth he could have been the richest Muslim scholar before his death because he was close to almost all the regimes since independence up to his death. But what did he leave behind after his death? How many houses did he buy in Kaduna while he was alive? How many estates did he have? How many millions did he stash away in local and foreign bank accounts? None! How many times would consignments of food be brought to him and he would readily instruct that it be shared to the needy people around? How many fleets of cars were parked in his house before his death? It was, in fact, reported after his death that he had only four set of cloth to himself.‎Allahu Akbar ! May Allah have mercy on him and forgive him his sins and failures."