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Am interested too. I'll like to know how this could be done. Thanks

Nezan:
Abuja is fine, and how is Ede? I might visit Osun state one of these days.

When will you come to Kano? I too missed you. I also miss other Muslim and non-Muslim friends and foes a lot that used to be here.

abulbanaat:
Thank you O jare O Muhsin may Allaah be with you. Can you send your e-mail address to me privately and perhaps your phone number.

Ameen. Let me just give it to you here (because I can't do otherwise): muhsin2008@gmail.com.

Thanks for the concern.

They all deserved the awards. Congrats!

Hey there!

abulbanaat:
Lest I forget, my good friend and all-time poster Muhsin Dan Kano, Yaya de!

Gee! You really have been into thick/thin air for quite sometimes. Hope everything is just fine. May Allah guide us to the right path, amin.

Beside, wallahi I've been having too much to do these days that I can't make it here as frequent as I did. And in addition, I no longer have the almost-unlimited internet access I enjoyed those days. In short, rayuwar sai a hankali, as we say in Hausa.

Thanks for the concern.

I laugh in Hausa. Nobody in his sane mind will ever say those picture are pictures of Muslims. Let us presume they are; they are far from good Muslims for their practice, or at least the one paraded here is not Islamic in whatsoever way.

Salam,

My apology to the readers of this thread. InshaAllah it'll soon be continued as usual. And thanks to those brothers/sisters who post in my absence. May Allah reward us all, amin.

Salam,

Keep it up, bros. May Allah reward handsomely.

Belated Jumu'at Mubarak to all.

Salam,

Any one up here? What's going on. . .

Assalamu alaikum,

[center]Narrated Abu Huraira (RA): The Prophet (pbuh) said:

"Allah will prepare for him who goes to the mosque (every) morning and in the afternoon (for the congregational prayer) an honorable place in Paradise with good hospitality for (what he has done) every morning and afternoon goings.

[Bukhari Book 1 Volume 11 Hadith 631][/center]

Ameen to your prayers brothers and sisters.

Assalamu alaikum,

[center]The Messenger of Allah, may Allah exalt his mention, said:

“When Allah wishes good for someone, He bestows upon him the understanding of the Deen.”

[Bukhari][/center]

^^^ Wallahi I too checked for it in every nook and cranny of this board but I couldn't locate it. I thereafter went to my last posts, yet I couldn't see anything. You know I promptly made a reply to the OP.

^^^ Better quit wasting your words, for nobody is reading neither care respond.

Assalamu alaikum,
[center]
The Prophet (pbuh) said:

"It is not lawful for a Muslim to desert (not to speak to) his brother Muslim for more than three days while meeting, one turns his face to one side and the other turns his face to the other side. Lo! The better of the two is the one who starts greeting the other".

[Bukhari Vol 8 No. 254][/center]

Hey there,

It takes courage and character to admit a fault, let alone to apologize for it.

Well done, nuclearboy. But please avoid such a doing in the future.

@Chakula,

Do not take heart; I can see you have not taken it already. Please keep it up. Your reward is with your Lord, the Creator.

@Uplawal,

Quite sometimes. Hope you have been doing fine.

@Deepsight

Great observation. I believe in your deep sightedness, though not all the time.

I live in Kano. . .

Wa'alaikum as-Salam,

That is very thoughtful of you; and a nice initiative. But I fear if people have that ample time to do what you are suggesting. I, in particular, don't have it.

Again, I've tried to download the software but it says it's corrupt. Anything I can do? Thanks and may Allah bless, amin.

noetic16:
in your dreams

And yours (dream) tells you otherwise?

Assalamu alaikum,

[center]Usam bn Zaid reported Prophet Muhammad, may Allah exalt his mention, as saying: "A Muslim is not entitled to inherit from a non-Muslim; and a non-Muslim is not entitled to inherit from a Muslim."[/center]

Has anyone of you read the above article?

Wa'alaika Salam, Chakula

This is a good initiative; although you don't have to limit the scope of the thread in that manner. Wouldn't it be more accurate if members are allowed to ask questions? Not all question is actually welcome. Only meaningful, matured and sensible question shall be attended to. That's all.

And, one more thing: it should be a verse per day. But in contrast today, alone, you submitted two, and other fellow too, I see, has had just added one. Though that's not a mistake but. . .

May Allah, the Exalted, reward you handsomely and support you in this and other "causes".

Cheerio!

^^^ You talking to?

Can that happen in our dear country, Nigeria?

Please read this: (you'll, God's willing, get that Yarima marriage saga clear). Happy reading.

YARIMA'S ABUSE OF RELIGION
Written by Mahmud Haruna
NDAJIKA@YAHOO.COM

Roughly 10 years after he pioneered the contentious Sharia criminal law as governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani, Yariman Bakura, is back in the headline news. This time he has provoked controversy by his recent marriage to an allegedly under aged Egyptian girl in Abuja. And as was the case last time the controversy has, so far at least, generated more heat than light.

On the one hand, the vast majority of newspaper pundits, human rights organizations and not a few of his legislative colleagues, many, if not all, of them sworn enemies of his “political Sharia,” have charged him with cradle snatching and called him all manner of names. Yarima, many of them have said, should be sacked from the Senate at the least. Better still, some have said, he should be prosecuted for violating Section 21 of the Child Rights Act of 2003 which provides for up to five years jail for anyone found guilty of violating the law.

On the other hand, many an imam who made the issue the subject of their khutbah in mosques last Friday in Kaduna and elsewhere during the Juma’a prayers, have rallied behind the senator. They all seemed to agree with his counter-charge that his critics have merely been hiding behind his so-called cradle snatching to ridicule Islam. After all, he said, he has not violated any of Allah’s injunctions on wedlock nor has he violated any of the traditions of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) on the same subject.

In his interview in the Daily Trust of April 29, for example, the senator said in effect he did not care to be judged by Nigeria’s Constitution and laws that he once swore as governor, and now as senator, to uphold. “Whatever the Qur’an and the hadith of the Holy Prophet authorizes,” he said, “I try my best to live up to it. Whatever they forbid I try my best not to do it. These are the guiding rules of my life. So if anyone decides to judge me according to rules other than those prescribed by Allah and the Holy Prophet, then he is wasting his time, because they are not my guiding principles.”

The senator said pretty much the same thing in his widely quoted interview with the BBC Hausa Service mid last week.

Technically the senator and his supporters are right that he has not violated any Islamic injunctions in marrying a girl-child. He has denied that she is 13, as has been widely claimed, but he would not say how old. Press enquiries about her age at the Egyptian Embassy in Abuja have drawn a blank. Even then it is almost certain that she is below the so-called age of consent – 18.

The Qur’an has a long list of what women a man can marry and what women he can’t. The list does not include girls under 18. Indeed Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) married Ai’sha at the age of seven, some say six, and consummated the marriage at nine.

If this sounds scandalous in this day and age it is because we have come to believe that women mature only at 18. Nothing can be more fallacious. The almost universal choice of 18 as the age of consent has little or no scientific basis. Eighteen may be the age the bone structure of a girl is assumed to be fully developed to withstand the rigours of childbirth but in Islam, as in most other beliefs and cultures, a girl is considered mature both physically and psychologically when she starts to menstruate. Most do so well below 18. And many can, and do, bear children safely at well below that age.

Eighteen as the age of consent is essentially a Western concept. Yet as last week’s London Economist (April 24) pointed out in an article on British education, four in every 100 British girls under 18 get pregnant every year. For all we know the figure for Nigeria is worse. Yet it is a safe bet that Yarima’s critics who take their cues on ethics mostly from the West see nothing wrong with such a phenomenon. If they do the fact is that they have never raised as much hell about under age sex, even that outside wedlock, as they have since Yarima’s wedding to his Egyptian girl-child.

Therefore Yarima and his supporters do have a point when they accuse at least some of his critics of hypocrisy.

This, however, is as far as I would go in defence of the senator. Technically he may not have breached any Islamic injunction in marrying a girl-child, but the issue here is not merely technical. It is also moral in at least two aspects.

First, the context of the marriage. It seems certain that he divorced one of his four wives so as to marry the Egyptian and still keep within the limit of four allowed by Islam. The poor local child was reportedly in form two in a secondary school when he married her and kept her out of school. She had a child for him at the time he divorced her. Islam, unlike, say, Catholicism, condones divorce as a last resort but unequivocally forbids it just to marry another woman or just for the hell of it, which amounts more or less to the same thing.

In this sense Yarima’s controversial marriage was as dubious technically as it was immoral.

Second, there is the apparent immorality of the cost of the wedding. In Islam, my malam friends say, there is a minimum bride price but there is no ceiling. When, according to one of them, Umar, one of the first four successors of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), tried at one time to fix a modest ceiling for bride price because he thought its size was making it difficult, if not impossible, for men to marry, he was successfully challenged by a woman who reminded him the prophet never set any ceiling.

Technically speaking, therefore, Yarima did no wrong by paying 100,000.00 dollars or roughly 15,000,000.00 Naira as bride price. Here again, however, the devil is in the context.

Islam unequivocally condemns and forbids profligacy and enjoins modesty and restrain in whatever a Muslim does or says, especially when, like Yarima, he is a leader or considers himself a role model.

Paying a bride price of 15,000,000.00 Naira in a country where the vast majority is said to live on less than a dollar a day is certainly worse than profligate. It borders on the criminal. And that was not the only cost. Because Egypt, even though a Muslim country, forbids marriage of any girl below 18, Yarima reportedly imported at least 30 of the girl’s relations into Abuja for the wedding. That must have cost another, possibly bigger, bundle.

Whatever the imams and Yarima’s supporters may say, his controversial marriage to a girl-child, not for the first time, is essentially an abuse of religion for personal pleasure. It is hard, if not impossible, to defend completely.

^^^Your people kicked us out.

Hope you've been doing good.

I too wonder o!

BTW, that was a good punishment. Keep it up, Malawian court.

Salam, babs787

I like this OP; although quite short but very precise. It hits the nail on the head.

But I kinda all the time feel afraid and unsure of the way the Muslim brotherhood/sisterhood is dwindling. Muslims are virtually always mistrusting one another; refusing to assist one another; leaving ones' in need helplessly; some are almost dying because there is no-one to turn to for their need, for instance in hospitals, some even in their homes; and mention other numerous scenarios. There's need for overhauling and reshuffling of things in our lives, wallahi.

I many a times wish I own the earth to enrich everyone. Wallahi seeing needy on a street leaves me deeply thoughtful, sometimes pensive.

May Allah strengthen Muslim brotherhood/sisterhood among ummah as practised during the reign of His Noble Prophet, Mahammad (S.A.W) by his guided Companions, amin.

Hey,

I remain ambivalent towards Gen. Buhari's becoming a president or otherwise.

Yet if I can meet him I'll personally and faithfully advise him to simply quit politics. It's a game which his likes cannot play and score any goal. I'm afraid for him becoming frustrated, which that can easily affect his health.

May Allah save Nigeria, amin.