Well-known Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has expressed
his opinion on Buhari’s intention to run against President
Goodluck Jonathan in the upcoming elections, SaharaReporters
reports.
The son of late famous Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, said on Tuesday
morning, that he believes there will be severe implications if the
ex head of state continues on his ambition to be the next
president. Sheikh Gumi wrote an open letter to this effect.
Several supporters of Buhari have criticised Gumi over a letter he
wrote on Goodluck and Buhari titled: The Second Round Of
Goodluck Vs Buhari: A Source Of Apprehension’ . Nigerians
reportedly accused him of jealousy and hatred for Buhari.
Read excerpt of the Sheikh Gumi’s open letter below:
I know I have access to your privy but this is meant for others to learn
also.
The prophet -peace be upon him- told one of the most honest and
truthful of his companions Abu Zar Algafary: “oh Abu Zar, I truly love
for you what I love for myself. I indeed see that you are weak so
never accept to lead even two people and never accept safekeeping of
the orphans wealth’
An honest and candid advice from the prophet that is still valid today
for any leader who’s weakness borders on leadership qualities.
The reason for Abu Zar’s weakness has nothing to do with his
credibility or truthfulness. Never! The prophet was narrated as saying:
“there is nobody under the shadows of trees or bare sun that is more
honest in speech than Abu Zar”
Abu Zar – May Allah be pleased with him- is ascetic and
inmaterialistic. Abu Zar is incorruptible. And yet he is not suitable for
leadership.
I am not claiming to be even by an atom’s weight anything close to
our noble prophet, yet I am encouraged to give you this same advice
by the virtue that you are not also close to Abu Zar in piety. We are
living in a time of great tribulations and fitnah especially for this
Ummah because of our collective iniquities, ignorance of religious
instructions and the love of Dunyah.
Sir, your weakness is not in your past impeccable record of
accountability of public wealth and the fight against corruption and
indispiline. Your weakness is in your inability to control men
compounded further by your strict and obsessive rejection of
corruption.
Don’t be surprised. You may need to understand that Islam being a
pragmatic religion allows the use of Zakkat and public wealth as an
instrument to pacify and lure influential people for the sake of
rightouness, peace and stability. In modern governance today it
translate into the security vote.
Thus men are also controlled by money. So if your policy of
governance is obsessibly centered on sealing tight the use of money
you will have great problem with men. An Arab poet said: “a fool
cannot be the leader of his people but the true leader of the people
must feign foolishness”.
It’s convenient for your ardent supporters to quote copiously from
the annals of history your great achievements but when your failures
and weaknesses were pointed out they say that was in the past. Is
the lessons of past history only good for the positive achievements?
Doesn’t that also explain our incessant failures?
Your Excellency, good intentions are never enough. In the past,
because of your clean records and straightforwardness you were
lured by men who want only the vanities Dunya to uproot a young
democracy on the caprices of fighting corruption. Corruption is no
doubt an evil but there is a more monstrous evil than corruption. That
is turmoil and insecurity. Peace and stability are the most important
part of governance that no price is to high for them.
The lack of peace, stability and security is the major predicament of
this nation since independence. So when you were naively used by
men to derail one, that is the greatest disservice you committed to
the nation the ills of which we are yet to recover from. Do you truly
believe Allah is still not in cognizance of that? You were lead to
uproot a duly elected leader and incrassate him for close to two years
knowing fully well that he has no charge of even the corruption that
was labeled against him. Yes, Shagari was the leader and therefore he
bears all the responsibility of misdeeds in his government, so also
you were a leader and you should bear all the responsibility of
derailing the peace and stability of governance in this country as a
consequence of that putsch.
You weakness in control of men became evident when the very people
that used you to revolt against a constituted authority came back to
uproot you from the seat of power. Your own kinsmen without a gun
cocked in your defense. Today the corruption you were deceived to
fight against has reached unimaginable level coupled with the worst
state of insecurity and peace in the nation. There was just recently an
attempt on your life like many of us.
All this because you the honest people that are given the privilege of
strengthening the Armed forces left it to meddle in politics. We thus
lost everything. Neither the power nor the security.
A believer is not stung from the same hole twice. Men used your
innocence before to get power and dump you. Please be sensible
today. Some other men still want to use you to get power and surely
they will dump you again. You don’t share the same philosophy at all.
Even though as I explained later, your obsession and philosophy of
fighting corruption is not the priority of Nigeria today. What Nigeria
needs utmost now is peace and stability. This can only be achieved
when the religious ethnic and regional divide is tamed. And you can
only tame it with people without much precedence. People without
much following. Yet people that are constructive and have the ability
to control men.
If Sardauna today is alive in your situation he will never contest for
the presidential seat because of his deep understanding of what the
nation needs. He will step down for a more acceptable younger
person. It’s on record that Sardauna even at the age of under 60 said
he was not going to contest again preparing his only house in Rabah
for retirement.
I’ll give you a similitude to buttress my point of priority. A person
seriously injured and fractured from a road traffic accident when
brought to the emergency room, the first priority of the doctors is to
secure an intravenous line. Meaning get a drip set working into his
veins to protect his vital organs like the heart and kidneys from the
effects of shock and loss of blood. The fractures even though serious
and the source of the blood loss may take days and weeks before
they are even attended to beside the superficial dressings.
Nigeria now needs peace and stability first. Then we talk of good
governance later even though it’s the source of the predicament we
are facing.
The present government has already charged the situation and played
the religious divide to it’s advantage. It’s in circulation now, a SW
pastor calling on Christians and the church to vote Jonathan as their
only Savior. This religious card will be used to cover for his deficiency
in governance.
Your Excellency, you should understand too, that many if not most of
your supporters are also looking up to you to protect them from the
onslaught on their religion and region. This also the Christian will
never believe the otherwise. Therefore the stage is set for religious
confrontation which is the least the nation needs.
What we need as a priority is peace and stability.
From my view if APC can support as an example Amaechi or
Okorocha/Kwankwaso or El-Rufai or Tambuwwal ticket and the PDC
will have Ukpabio/Muazu or Ribadu or Shekaru, the next four years
will. – insha Allah – witness stability both in the north and south.
And the electoral body will get the necessary infrastructure that
subsequently the next election will be free and fair and the true
reflection of Nigerians.
If you may ask, why can’t this same peace be achieved with you and
another Christian running mate?
Gen. you have antagonist, and they are many and also as ardent as
your supporters. Your supporters have the biggest proportion of the
underprivileged of the society which is the petrol that can be easily
ignited by the slightest spark. The spark will be when you’re declared
the loser. And you know you can very well lose if the Christians
follow their church -and why not in this era of mediocrity.
On the other hand if Jonathan comes back. BH will be real not the
political one we see. The turmoil will engulf the whole country not
only the north. That is why I also call on PDP to present some other
candidates.
My Brother in Islam, please listen to the words of wisdom. And don’t
follow the whims of the riff raff. Before they used you the first time
to disrupt the second republic, my father advised you against it.
Today I am also advising you against contesting in the 2015
presidential elections because you will be used to ignite the nation -a
dream well orchestrated several years ago- and also be used by bad
people as a ladder to grab regional and local powers.
I rest my case here.
My best regards and condolence to your recent loss.
May Allah guide you and protect you from the evil men and the jinn.
Amin.
Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi
Kaduna

.

Waoo! U have really hit the nail on its head. Buhari! Buhari!! Buhari!!!. Hmmmmm

Even sheik gumi sef jaa say this prophet of islam na confirm high profile(SHURA) member of boko boys.

Una neva sleep?

Ok

,

I love this piece though i hv some reservation abt BH engulfing the whole nation if GEJ wins.

What we need is for GEJ to be firm and deal with both the root cause and the sponsors without fear or favour.

Some ppl are using BH to supress our democracy and freedom.

I will revert back to this thread by february 2015 after Buhari must have lost the election and a possible tumoil in the north starts as usual after each of his consistent losses.

wanimo:
I will revert back to this thread by february 2015 after Buhari must have lost the election and a possible tumoil in the north starts as usual after each of his consistent losses.

I pray they listen, but where two elephants fight.....


but I dey kampe because I'm under HIS cover.

Fine. Buhari will step down if gej steps down else its tit-for-tat. Two accidental leaders.

he who have ears let him hear the message has been passed across.

iriferi:
Well-known Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has expressed
his opinion on Buhari’s intention to run against President
Goodluck Jonathan in the upcoming elections, SaharaReporters
reports.
The son of late famous Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, said on Tuesday
morning, that he believes there will be severe implications if the
ex head of state continues on his ambition to be the next
president. Sheikh Gumi wrote an open letter to this effect.
Several supporters of Buhari have criticised Gumi over a letter he
wrote on Goodluck and Buhari titled: The Second Round Of
Goodluck Vs Buhari: A Source Of Apprehension’ . Nigerians
reportedly accused him of jealousy and hatred for Buhari.
Read excerpt of the Sheikh Gumi’s open letter below:
I know I have access to your privy but this is meant for others to learn
also.
The prophet -peace be upon him- told one of the most honest and
truthful of his companions Abu Zar Algafary: “oh Abu Zar, I truly love
for you what I love for myself. I indeed see that you are weak so
never accept to lead even two people and never accept safekeeping of
the orphans wealth’
An honest and candid advice from the prophet that is still valid today
for any leader who’s weakness borders on leadership qualities.
The reason for Abu Zar’s weakness has nothing to do with his
credibility or truthfulness. Never! The prophet was narrated as saying:
“there is nobody under the shadows of trees or bare sun that is more
honest in speech than Abu Zar”
Abu Zar – May Allah be pleased with him- is ascetic and
inmaterialistic. Abu Zar is incorruptible. And yet he is not suitable for
leadership.
I am not claiming to be even by an atom’s weight anything close to
our noble prophet, yet I am encouraged to give you this same advice
by the virtue that you are not also close to Abu Zar in piety. We are
living in a time of great tribulations and fitnah especially for this
Ummah because of our collective iniquities, ignorance of religious
instructions and the love of Dunyah.
Sir, your weakness is not in your past impeccable record of
accountability of public wealth and the fight against corruption and
indispiline. Your weakness is in your inability to control men
compounded further by your strict and obsessive rejection of
corruption.
Don’t be surprised. You may need to understand that Islam being a
pragmatic religion allows the use of Zakkat and public wealth as an
instrument to pacify and lure influential people for the sake of
rightouness, peace and stability. In modern governance today it
translate into the security vote.
Thus men are also controlled by money. So if your policy of
governance is obsessibly centered on sealing tight the use of money
you will have great problem with men. An Arab poet said: “a fool
cannot be the leader of his people but the true leader of the people
must feign foolishness”.
It’s convenient for your ardent supporters to quote copiously from
the annals of history your great achievements but when your failures
and weaknesses were pointed out they say that was in the past. Is
the lessons of past history only good for the positive achievements?
Doesn’t that also explain our incessant failures?
Your Excellency, good intentions are never enough. In the past,
because of your clean records and straightforwardness you were
lured by men who want only the vanities Dunya to uproot a young
democracy on the caprices of fighting corruption. Corruption is no
doubt an evil but there is a more monstrous evil than corruption. That
is turmoil and insecurity. Peace and stability are the most important
part of governance that no price is to high for them.
The lack of peace, stability and security is the major predicament of
this nation since independence. So when you were naively used by
men to derail one, that is the greatest disservice you committed to
the nation the ills of which we are yet to recover from. Do you truly
believe Allah is still not in cognizance of that? You were lead to
uproot a duly elected leader and incrassate him for close to two years
knowing fully well that he has no charge of even the corruption that
was labeled against him. Yes, Shagari was the leader and therefore he
bears all the responsibility of misdeeds in his government, so also
you were a leader and you should bear all the responsibility of
derailing the peace and stability of governance in this country as a
consequence of that putsch.
You weakness in control of men became evident when the very people
that used you to revolt against a constituted authority came back to
uproot you from the seat of power. Your own kinsmen without a gun
cocked in your defense. Today the corruption you were deceived to
fight against has reached unimaginable level coupled with the worst
state of insecurity and peace in the nation. There was just recently an
attempt on your life like many of us.
All this because you the honest people that are given the privilege of
strengthening the Armed forces left it to meddle in politics. We thus
lost everything. Neither the power nor the security.
A believer is not stung from the same hole twice. Men used your
innocence before to get power and dump you. Please be sensible
today. Some other men still want to use you to get power and surely
they will dump you again. You don’t share the same philosophy at all.
Even though as I explained later, your obsession and philosophy of
fighting corruption is not the priority of Nigeria today. What Nigeria
needs utmost now is peace and stability. This can only be achieved
when the religious ethnic and regional divide is tamed. And you can
only tame it with people without much precedence. People without
much following. Yet people that are constructive and have the ability
to control men.
If Sardauna today is alive in your situation he will never contest for
the presidential seat because of his deep understanding of what the
nation needs. He will step down for a more acceptable younger
person. It’s on record that Sardauna even at the age of under 60 said
he was not going to contest again preparing his only house in Rabah
for retirement.
I’ll give you a similitude to buttress my point of priority. A person
seriously injured and fractured from a road traffic accident when
brought to the emergency room, the first priority of the doctors is to
secure an intravenous line. Meaning get a drip set working into his
veins to protect his vital organs like the heart and kidneys from the
effects of shock and loss of blood. The fractures even though serious
and the source of the blood loss may take days and weeks before
they are even attended to beside the superficial dressings.
Nigeria now needs peace and stability first. Then we talk of good
governance later even though it’s the source of the predicament we
are facing.
The present government has already charged the situation and played
the religious divide to it’s advantage. It’s in circulation now, a SW
pastor calling on Christians and the church to vote Jonathan as their
only Savior. This religious card will be used to cover for his deficiency
in governance.
Your Excellency, you should understand too, that many if not most of
your supporters are also looking up to you to protect them from the
onslaught on their religion and region. This also the Christian will
never believe the otherwise. Therefore the stage is set for religious
confrontation which is the least the nation needs.
What we need as a priority is peace and stability.
From my view if APC can support as an example Amaechi or
Okorocha/Kwankwaso or El-Rufai or Tambuwwal ticket and the PDC
will have Ukpabio/Muazu or Ribadu or Shekaru, the next four years
will. – insha Allah – witness stability both in the north and south.
And the electoral body will get the necessary infrastructure that
subsequently the next election will be free and fair and the true
reflection of Nigerians.
If you may ask, why can’t this same peace be achieved with you and
another Christian running mate?
Gen. you have antagonist, and they are many and also as ardent as
your supporters. Your supporters have the biggest proportion of the
underprivileged of the society which is the petrol that can be easily
ignited by the slightest spark. The spark will be when you’re declared
the loser. And you know you can very well lose if the Christians
follow their church -and why not in this era of mediocrity.
On the other hand if Jonathan comes back. BH will be real not the
political one we see. The turmoil will engulf the whole country not
only the north. That is why I also call on PDP to present some other
candidates.
My Brother in Islam, please listen to the words of wisdom. And don’t
follow the whims of the riff raff. Before they used you the first time
to disrupt the second republic, my father advised you against it.
Today I am also advising you against contesting in the 2015
presidential elections because you will be used to ignite the nation -a
dream well orchestrated several years ago- and also be used by bad
people as a ladder to grab regional and local powers.
I rest my case here.
My best regards and condolence to your recent loss.
May Allah guide you and protect you from the evil men and the jinn.
Amin.
Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi
Kaduna

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