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Adufaye: nd wat if d world don already end a long tym? Huh

I didn't get your question...sorry.

ayobase: This is one of the reasons the atheists do say the theists are daft!

You still doubt even when the signs are visible?

deols: But to broadcast your sins is even haram. There is no reason to make a confession.They only need to make taubah and Allah may forgive them.

That is only applicable when you take pride in your sins. Remember the story of the pregnant woman? After whose judgement the prophet SAW said “....O Khalid, be gentle. By Him in Whose Hand is my life, she has made such a repentance that even if a wrongful tax-collector were to repent, he would have been forgiven...."

Masha'Allah @tbaba1234, nice post. The Qur'an is free of errors and embedded in it are the solutions to our problems all around the world. May your knowledge never wilt.

Adbobo: @ Poster May Allah increase your knowledge.
I heard this from an audio tape of one Alfa in the middle of 80s but I was young then to read meaning to all he said.
All i remember then is that the slave will be king and we will see some people walk barely footed like celestial people we are seeing now, and that people will be watching world from the comfort of their bed (i.e watching CNN, BBC, AL-JAZEERA etc now a days).

Honestly, almost everything is about to happen and we should start doing goods and repent..may Allah overlook our shorcomings (aamin).

Barka.llahu fii.

Ameen

searay: Please who is the Father of Corruption in Nigeria?

One thing about corruption is that it has many fathers.

deols: First, I am not a brother

and yh! I know it probably happens. I have heard of such things. But I can not be sure since I wasnt a witness and I've never heard of a four-witnesses account as ordained by the sharee'ah.

I believe that a self confession is sufficient where there are no witnesses. But it is hard to do that except your conscience pricks you endlessly.

ManTiger: I strongly disagree.

Why?

Adufaye: wat if d world didnt end...?

The world must surely end. Science has even proven that.

Tayerulz: Heard of the tower of babel? Wanna tell me which of todays building could be as tall as that??

Tower of babel was one building whose builders died with the building itself after some time leaving no proof to confirm it. This shows that people who lived after then had no concrete knowledge of it and could only imagine what it must have looked like but this one says that tall buildings (numerous and various) would be built and everyone will see it with their eyes and marvel at their beauty.

Libkid: Dis must be a joke.all dis fins has been there since na

Not all had been happening before now besides, it becomes a thing of concern when they become the norm. These things have become the norm in our society which is frightening.

$620,000 Bribe: Tambuwal Fires Farouk Lawan

The Speaker,House of Representatives Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Thursday sacked the suspended Chairman of the House Adhoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Regime Hon. Farouk Lawan from the position of Chairman, House Committee on Education.

Tambuwal announced the appointment of Hon. Aminu Suleiman (PDP, Kano) as the substantive chairman of the committee as replacement for Lawan who is currently facing trial for allegedly receiving a bribe of $620,000 from oil magnate Femi Otedola.
Tambuwal also appointed deputy chairmen for six other committees.

Until his appointment, Sulaiman was the deputy chairman of the committee on labour and productivity. Hon. Rose Okoh (PDP, Cross River), deputy chairman of the Education committee had been operating in acting capacity until Thursday.

Tambuwal said the appointment is with immediate effect.

Farouk Lawan was suspended at a special plenary of the House in June 2012 after billionaire oil marketer, Chief Femi Otedola alleged that the former chairman collected a $620,000 bribe from him to facilitate the removal of his companies: Zenon oil and Synopsis international from the list of erring companies in the subsidy regime.

The House had temporarily stripped Lawan of his position as chairman committee on education as well as chairman of the subsidy probe committee pending the outcome of the investigation of its committee on ethics and privileges. With this development, Lawan who has been in the House since 1999 would remain as a floor member.The ethics and privileges committee had concluded its assignment since last year but has not submitted its findings to the House. Efforts by our correspondent to ascertain whether the speakers action was based on the findings of the ethics and privileges committee were however not successful.

Lawan, is presently being prosecuted for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribe for the purpose of compromising facts on the oil subsidy management in the country.

It was learnt that Tambuwal’s sacking of Lawan may not be unconnected with the resolve of the House leadership to purge itself of anything that might dent the image of the House.

SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/620000-bribe-tambuwal-fires-farouk-lawan/

tbaba1234: Some of the hadiths of the end-times by the prophet are just amazing,tunnel through the mountains, buildings as tall as the mountains in Mecca. Just less 100 years ago, these things were unthinkable but they are there today. The hadiths are so direct. All you can say is that the messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke the truth.

Yes, as Allah also confirmed sir in Qur 53:1-3
1. By the Star when it goes down
2. Your Companion is neither astray nor being misled
3. Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) Desire.
Like you said, he spoke the truth.

maclatunji: I am not 100 per cent sure. One can hardly tell. It is amazing how the world is rapidly approaching its end.

True that. Imagine 47. Only people one knows will be greeted with the salaam. This is happening now. You see Muslims pass beside one another without saying the salaam to one another albeit there are signs showing that the other parties are Muslims but when the same Muslims wear Arsenal/Chelsea Jessey, you see them greeting themselves with 'Up gunners/Up Blues'. We are fast losing it but hey, if such don't occur, maybe the prophesies won't even be fulfilled.

1. People will leave prayer.

2. People will usurp Ama’naat (trust).

3. Lying will become an Art.

4. There will be murders on the slightest of disagreements

5. Interest(riba/usury)will become common.

6. There will be very tall buildings

7 People will sell religion for the world.

8. People will treat relatives badly

9 Justice will become a rarity

10 Lies will be considered truth

11. Clothes will be of silk

12. Persecution will become common

13. Divorces will become common

14. Sudden deaths will increase.

15. The usurper of Ama’naat (trust) will be considered honest and honorable.

16. The keeper of Ama’naat (trust) will be called an usurper of things given to him for safekeeping

17. Liars will be thought of as honest

18. Honest people will be thought of as liars

19. False accusations will become the norm.

20. It will be hot in spite of rain.

21. Instead of wishing for children, people will pray that they not have children

22. People from bad backgrounds and with bad upbringing will live a life of luxury (material, not peaceful).

23. Good people, when they try to practice, will be cut off from the world

24. Previously good people will also usurp Ama’naat (trust).

25. Leaders will become persecutors.

26. Ulema(scholars) and Qaris(reciters of thr Qur'an) will commit adultery.

27. People will wear clothes of animal skin.

28. But their hearts will smell and will be dead.

29. And will be bitter.

30. Gold will become common.

31. Demand for silver will increase.

32. Sin will increase.

33. Peace will become rare.

34. Ayaats(verses) from the Quran will be decorated and calligraphy will become.

35. Mosques will be decorated.

36. And will have tall Minars.

37. But hearts will be empty.

38. Alcoholic drinks will be consumed.

39. Punishments ordered by the Shariah will be revoked and will not longer be implemented.

40. Women will order their mother around.

41. People who are with naked feet, naked bodies and against religion will become kings.

42. Women will trade along with men.

43. Women will imitate men.

44. Men will imitate women.

45. People will swear by things other than Allah and the Quran.

46. Even Muslims will be prepared to give false testimony, without being incited to it.

47. Only people one knows will be greeted with the salaam.

48. The knowledge of the Shariah will be used to earn worldly things.

49. Acts, which earn the Akhirah(hereafter), will be used to earn the world.

50. Assets belonging to the nation will be considered and treated as personal treasures by the rulers.

51. Ama’naat will be considered ones personal asset.

52. Zakaat will be considered as a penalty.

53. The lowest and the worst man in the nation will become its leader.

54. People will not obey their fathers.

55. And will mistreat their mothers.

56. And will not hold back from harming their friends.

57. And will obey their wives.

58. And the voices of the men who commit adultery will be raised in mosques.

59. Women who sing will be treated with great deference.

60. Instruments of music will be kept with great care.

61. Alcohol will be drunk on the highways.

62. People will be proud of their acts of persecution.

63. Justice will be sold in the courts.

64. The number of men in the police force will increase.

65. Instead of music, the Quran will be used to gain pleasure for its tune and style (qirat), not for what it preaches, its meaning or for rewards in the Akhirah.

66. Animal fur will be used.

67. The last of the Ummat will curse those before them (clearly seen today in people who call the Prophet’s companion’s names).

68. Either Allah will send a Red Storm upon you.

69. Or Earthquakes.

70. Or your faces will be changed.

71. Or a rain of rocks from the skies. Asteroids? Meteors.

72. Lies will become a habit of the rulers and the rich.



The Prophet Muhammad Salallaho Alaihi Wa Alehi Wassallam also said:

1. Alcohol will be called Sherbat and will be considered Halal.

2. Interest will be called Trade and will be considered Halal.

3. Brides will be called Gifts and will be considered Halal.

4. Women will be naked in spite of wearing dresses.

This Hadith has baffled the Ulema for a very long time until now:

The three kind of naked women are:

1. Those who wear see-through dresses.

2. Those who wear tight dresses.

3. Those whose dresses are so short and they expose the body.

Women will have hair, like the hump of a camel. (This hadith too, bad baffled the Ulema for quite a long time till they saw current hairstyles. I believe it came into fashion about 5 years ago).

This one I haven't witnessed ----> 26. Ulema and Qaris will commit adultery.

My friend started, he started by saying that he had heard a lot of testimonies in the church but one actually stood out. On that particular Sunday, this couple came out to the altar and shouted praises to God.

Before I continue, I want to emphasize that I have not been to a church while people were giving testimonies and that is because I am a Muslim but the people I used to see on the television giving testimonies had given me a preconceived notion of how it must look – happy. That explains why I believe that they must have shouted praises to God immediately they got to the front of the congregation. This testimony is just a reflection of what different people face in the present day Nigeria….but this has a different twist to it.
Prior to this day in church, this couple had woken up on another day like every other Nigerian. The father, the mother and their three children were all happy about the journey they were about to embark on. I believe they wanted to travel to another state to see one of their family members. They had their own car and saw no reason not to travel with it, after all one of the reasons of having a personal car is to feel comfortable on long journeys. Well, they set off.

In the course of their much anticipated journey, where the kids were probably thinking of how they were going to hug their cousins and show them love, where the parents were also probably imagining the loveliest feeling they would have immediately they were welcomed by the family they had been yearning to see for a while, their expectations were dashed by a group of individuals. On interstate highways, many people have been robbed of their vehicles, phones, laptops as well as other valuable property that may have been on them at the time of robbery but these guys operated differently. As my friend told the story, I knew there was nothing much to it for I always heard of it before that our highways are full of robbers.
These were robbers who wanted to rob a family, so what!!? The story seemed to me uninteresting at that point in time but I forced myself to listen to the rest of it as you tend to force yourself to read the rest of it.

This family was waylaid by a group of armed men on the highway. Seeing that these men were armed and dangerous, the man stopped the car and started to fear for his family. The armed men got down from their car and approached the family. They probably had a leader who was nice and courteous for he told the man and his wife that they were not there to rob them but they only needed the couple to do them a favour.
They called the couple aside and told them that all they needed was for the couple to provide for them what they needed.
They said that they needed a human being for whatever purpose but that it was important that the father, even if it had to be him, provided someone from his family for them to take away. One can’t help but imagine how eager the man would have wanted to offer them anything and I mean anything but himself or any member of his family at that particular point in time. After they must have realized that it would be a hard decision to make for the man, the robbers were kind (or callous) enough to give the family about ten to fifteen minutes to deliberate on the issue. It was glaring that if they fought those men or wasted more time in deciding who should be the sacrificial figure, they could get killed or get kidnapped. If you had been in the man’s shoes and the wife’s, what would have been your decision?
Now coming back to the church testimony, the couple being there indicates that they both survived that day and that was what their testimony was based upon. It was also based upon the fact that the couple had to make the hardest decision of their lives by giving the armed men one of their children (un)willingly. One of their children was sacrificed for the survival of the family.

I can’t begin to imagine what was going on in the minds of the parents when the child was being whisked away, I have not been able to understand and may never understand how they reached their decision but I know that at that point in time, different people would have acted differently. When my friend finished narrating this story, we all started to feel for the couple while we made different comments. Some said that the couple made the best decision; others disagreed while one said that he would have sacrificed his wife but as for me, I would have chosen…………..

Al_Qaadir: You are a youruba bastard and may the cause of Almighty Allah be upon your generation. Haba! what is wrong with you with the ibo people? Are youruba people better than any tribe in Nigerian? Don't make me to hate yorubas because if i do i will go after their life OK.
Your eviness of ibo will send you early grave and i know how many yoruba are here in the north and when the war start ibos will never be the tagert but you yorubas.
Let me tell you this now that ibos are not targeted in the north but christian OK and if nigerian divide today no northerner man will go against the ibo because we know the implication it might cause to our economy but you stupid and mothanfuckers yourubas will be flush out from our zone.
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Are you really a Muslim? If yes, then I suggest that you stop posting comments out of uncontrollable emotions.

TopSpot: Salam Aleikum Warahmotullah, muslim brothers and sisters.

I am Ismail Abdussalam.

Wa alaykum salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome brother, may your time here be fruitful.

Afenifere Blasts Ahmadu Ali For Denigrating Yorubas, Say He Will Not Choose Hero For Them

The Afenifere group has blasted a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, for denigrating Yorubas.

In a statement signed by its publicity secretary, Yinka Odumakin, the group drew attention to a newspaper report in which Ali said, “…The Yoruba people who are totally ungrateful kind of people in this country… the Yoruba are another character.”

It said that a remark of that nature against a whole people is totally unbecoming of a man who is expected to be cultured, coming as he does from Igala kingdom, which has centuries of civilization behind it.

Afenifere said it would ordinarily have ignored Ali’s vituperations but for the facts that given his profile as a former chairman of the ruling party and a failed aspirant to the chairmanship of its Board of Trustees, the unwary may be tempted to assume that the words he spoke came from a wise man who is highly informed; and that he has touched on a deep cultural value of the Yoruba people on the subject of appreciation.

“The Yoruba people value an appreciative spirit to the point of criminalizing an ungrateful person in the saying “eni ti a se lore ti ko dupe, bi olosa ko ni leru lo ni” (an ingrate person is not different from a thief),” the statement said. “They also link continuous blessings to appreciation of past ones “bi omode ba dupe ore ana, a ri mi gba” (someone who appreciates past blessings would attract new ones).”

On this basis, Afenifere asserted, it is crystal clear that Ali lacks lessons to teach the Yoruba in the art of gratitude and his uncouth remark only portrays him as ill-mannered and foul-mouthed.

"For Ali and those who think like him, Yoruba don’t venerate mere positions but rather leadership through service to the community. This explains why the Yoruba adore Awolowo who contested the highest office in the land three times and lost and resent Ali’s hero who occupied the same office three times!”
"The difference is that as Premier of Western Region, Awo used the resources of the region to banish ignorance through free education, eliminated diseases through free health, introduced television culture to the Yoruba even before France, made Yoruba to aim for the sky by building the 25-storey Cocoa House in Ibadan, among other imperishable.”

The statement noted that in contrast, the years Obasanjo spent as leader of Nigeria institutionalized corruption which deepened poverty for all Nigerians including the Yoruba.

“The poverty index in Nigeria was 45% in 1999 and jumped to 67% in 2007 in spite of unprecedented oil earnings in the same period,” the statement said. “The culture of begging that was alien in Yorubaland became pronounced under the leadership of the man Ali wants Yoruba to worship.
“In all the 11 years Ali’s god spent as Nigerian’s President, Yoruba can point to nothing in their region that rivals the least of Awo’s achievements. That is why they have no gratitude for such a man positioned to give quality leadership to his country but left it worse that he met it because of personal failings.”

Afenifere called on Ali to feel free to build a shrine for his god in his Igala kingdom but that he would never be the one to choose a hero for the Yoruba.
“And talking of gratitude is there anything the Yoruba owe Ahmadu Ali himself? They remain “grateful” to him in memory of Akintunde Ojo and other promising students who were murdered in cold blood during “Ali Must Go” crisis of 1978, when Ali was Obasanjo’s Education Minister,” the group said.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/afenifere-blasts-ahmadu-ali-denigrating-yor

LagosShia: the wahhabis/salafists destroying Islam again.

previously it was Jannatul-Baqi in Medina and Jannatul Muallah in Makkah that they destroyed.now the very holy mosque in Makkah is what they are tampering with.these saudi wahhabis think Makkah is their property.the Saudi occupation of the holy cities of Makkah and Medina must stop!

recently in africa,its the same story in Timbuktu:

Salafist Militants Destroying Islam's History In Africa
https://www.nairaland.com/981172/salafist-militants-destroying-islams-history

What even disturbs me is the question of their intention. Looks to me like they are not doing this to destroy the ancient Islamic sites but I suppose that in the event of attempting to do something for the deen and people who go there for Hajj, they may likely destroy those things that serve as side attractions to the holy land itself. It would have been better if they could expand the sites without touching those places we deem important.

The authorities in Saudi Arabia have begun dismantling some of the oldest sections of Islam’s most important mosque as part of a highly controversial multi-billion pound expansion.

Photographs obtained by The Independent reveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections on the eastern side of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.

The building, which is also known as the Grand Mosque, is the holiest site in Islam because it contains the Kaaba – the point to which all Muslims face when praying. The columns are the last remaining sections of the mosque which date back more than a few hundred years and form the inner perimeter on the outskirts of the white marble floor surrounding the Kaaba.

The new photos, taken over the last few weeks, have caused alarm among archaeologists and come as Prince Charles – a long-term supporter of preserving architectural heritage – flew into Saudi Arabia yesterday for a visit with the Duchess of Cornwall. The timing of his tour has been criticised by human rights campaigners after the Saudis shot seven men in public earlier this week despite major concerns about their trial and the fact that some of the men were juveniles at the time of their alleged crimes.

Many of the Ottoman and Abbasid columns in Mecca were inscribed with intricate Arabic calligraphy marking the names of the Prophet Muhammad’s companions and key moments in his life. One column which is believed to have been ripped down is supposed to mark the spot where Muslims believe Muhammad began his heavenly journey on a winged horse, which took him to Jerusalem and heaven in a single night.

To accommodate the ever increasing number of pilgrims heading to the twin holy cities of Mecca and Medina each year the Saudi authorities have embarked upon a massive expansion project. Billions of pounds have been poured in to increase the capacity of the Masjid al-Haram and the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina which marks where Muhammad is buried. King Abdullah has put the prominent Wahabi cleric and imam of the Grand Mosque, Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, in charge of the expansion while the Saudi Binladin Group – one of the country’s largest firms – has won the construction contract.

While there is little disagreement over the need to expand, critics have accused the Saudi regime of wantonly disregarding the archaeological, historical and cultural heritage of Islam’s two holiest cities. In the last decade Mecca has been transformed from a dusty desert pilgrimage town into a gleaming metropolis of skyscrapers that tower over the Masjid al-Haram and are filled with a myriad of shopping malls, luxury apartments and five star hotels.

But such a transformation has come at a cost. The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimates that 95 per cent of Mecca's millennium-old buildings have been demolished in the past two decades alone. Dozens of key historical sites dating back to the birth of Islam have already been lost and there is a scramble among archaeologists and academics to try and encourage the authorities to preserve what little remains.

Many senior Wahabis are vehemently against the preservation of historical Islamic sites that are linked to the prophet because they believe it encourages shirq – the sin of idol worshipping.

But Dr Irfan al-Alawi, executive director of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation which obtained the new photographs from inside the Grand Mosque, says the removal of the Ottoman and Abbasid columns will leave future generations of Muslims ignorant of their significance.

“It matters because many of these columns signified certain areas of the mosque where the Prophet sat and prayed,” he said. “The historical record is being deleted. A new Muslim would never have a clue because there’s nothing marking these locations now. There are ways you could expand Mecca and Medina while protecting the historical heritage of the mosque itself and the surrounding sites.”

There are signs that King Abdullah has listened to concerns about the historical destruction of Mecca and Medina. Last October The Independent revealed how new plans for the masjid an-Nabawi in Medina would result in the destruction of three of the world’s oldest mosques on the west hand side of the main complex. However new plans approved by King Abdullah last week appear to show a change of heart with the bulk of the expansion now slated to take place to the north of the Masjid an-Nabawi.

However key sites are still at risk. The Independent has obtained a presentation used by the Saudis to illustrate how the expansion of Mecca’s main mosque will look. In one of the slides it is clear that the Bayt al-Mawlid, an area which is believed to be the house where Muhammad was born in, will have to be removed unless plans change.

The Independent asked the Saudi Embassy in London a number of questions about the expansion plans and why more was not being done to preserve key historical sites. They replied: “Thank you for calling, but no comment.”

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-photos-saudi-arabia-doesnt-want-seen--and-proof-islams-most-holy-relics-are-being-demolished-in-mecca-8536968.html

mbhs139: But there is something I'm not getting here, are there people in this country who sees nothing wrong this very act of their president?

In fact, they see nothing wrong in any of his actions. To them, he is blameless.

ninja4life: sometimes i wonder how some people tink if dey ar trying to destroy some documents why would dey burn a house.

Bro, desperation can make some people burn down a sky scraper just to keep one incriminating page in a document secret.

A part of the private residence of Governor Ibikunle Amosun in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Wednesday was gutted by fire which destroyed several documents.

The house popularly referred to as “White House” and located at Ibara GRA, Abeokuta went up in flames at about 12:30pm.

Our correspondent gathered that the fire was sparked off in one of the rooms in the house but the extent of damage could not be ascertained.

Security operatives manning the gates to the bungalow however prevented journalists from covering the incident. They attacked and snatched cameras and blackberry phones from reporters who besieged the scene to capture the fire incident.

The security operatives even threatened to shoot at the reporters. The camera belonging to the Nigerian Television Authority was seized, damaged and the tape removed. Another camera belonging to the News Agency of Nigeria reporter, Tomisin Erogbogbo, was seized and by the time it was returned to her, all the pictures previously contained in it, including those of the fire incident, had been deleted. Also, the blackberry phone belonging to the correspondent of the Businessday Newspaper, Razaq Ayinla, was seized and all the pictures deleted.

Addressing journalists while the fire was being brought under control, the governor’s elder brother, Alhaji Abidoye Amosun, who later arrived at the scene, said that they quickly alerted the men of the fire service immediately they noticed the smoke.

He said, “Yes, there was a fire incident here some hours ago, but it has been put under control. We noticed flame from one of the rooms and we quickly called the attention of the Fire Fighters who promptly arrived and put it under control.”

On the extent of damage done by the fire outbreak, Alhaji Amosun said there was nothing to worry about as only “few documents were burnt during the incident.”

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/ogun-state-governors-house-on-fire/

Paul John: Not to the extent of noticing it with your eye, moreso it not yet that hot. You can still look directly to the sun without a shade. I don't expect any expansion not until like 11am in a place like Nigeria

I want to believe that it is normal if it vibrates considering that the vehicles on it were running their engines at a static position and vibrating in the process coupled with the tide that hits the bridge from under.

Since when did 'unidentified gunmen' become boko haram's second name?

tiarabubu:
Killing apostates is wrong in ALL its ramifications. A Sunni cleric Al-Qaradawi has just told us why it was needed: to keep Islam alive. Counter him. I want to be educated too!

How did you conclude that the killing of apostates is wrong?

Assalamu alaykum. I joined the forum purposely for Islam and I hope it is worthwhile. May Allah reward you all with goodness for your efforts.