Man only lives in self-delusion. The natural way of life is about the creatures who are worshipers and the creator who is worshiped. Man can live in self denial of his Lord but surely he will be in conflict with his fitra( natural instinct). The fitra of a man is to be modest and honourable in dressing.

This is fashion in the real sense,my brother.

May Allaah reward Maclatunji and all adherents of true deen.

'Quest for love and Mercy', 'Closer than the Garment', 'The Fragile Vessel'.--- These are names of 3 Books written by Sheihk Muhammad Al-Jibaly and who derived the titles of the books from Verses of the Qur'an.

In essence, Women are to be seen as 'Love to be protected', 'A garment that also honours and protects you' and ' A fragile vessel that is tender and delicate to mal-handle'.

Are you a man, muslim or otherwise, who beats,slaps or disregard your wife? Ask yourself-" Who do I take after?".

May Allaah reward the OP.

6 mega Universities in the midst of 100s of mushroom Universities is like the proverbial 'one rich man amidst his six mega-impoverished siblings". In reality, we will only succeed not in having mega institutions but mega illusions of realities.

And here we are jostling for which university to attain the 'mega' status. Just exactly what they want! We are divided not only along ethnic line but even in sub-communal affiliations and surely this will becloud our sense of judgement. I hail from Ibadan but attended OAU(God,I love this school) and Unilag is just d right place to learn. So, I guess I should be confused!

But in my opinion these are made Universities that already have the attention of the Govt in the past and already on the threshold of development. If any University is to be choosen for this largesse ,then it shouldn't be these ones. But I guess the powers that be won't jettison than personal interest or disinterest to give us the best.
For instance, even if Unilag is in the best position to hold the South-western Ace, it is in the Opposition state-Lagos and coupled with the fact that they are also 'rebellious' against name changing,this will surely be made to bear in rejecting that choice.

It is who we are; who we have always been and it is just one of the numerous mindset that keep hindering and hampering on our development as a growing state. Hence,we produce failed institutions in mega ways.

Let there be an emergency declared in the Education Sector for the duration of the reminant of this tenure and let the Focus be on capacity building of all the FG Universities(at least) not forgetting the Primary and Secondary Unity schools. The next govt can continue where d previous stops.

This, in the nearest future, won't produce Mega Universities but qualified graduates with no meagre achievements.

So, cumulatively , Nigerians are either searching for gossips or blackmail!

This world is perverted! Between a 40yrs-old-female-sampling celebrity and an unknown happily married dude at 28. Who is an achiever....in the real sense? Where do we put " a fool @ 40 ......."

nijanigga: Nigeria is using adult men some in thier 30s to play under 17. Three of the players have already failed scan test.Almost nothing clean comes out of Nigeria.

From an unclean mouth..?

Obviously, the OP must have gotten more than what she bargained for by opening this thread. I see a case of the hunter now been hunted. Though the OP, giving her choice of words, wished to be seen as the endangered specie here- you know, gentle, not-finding-trouble, naïve type and helplessly in a dillema,needing fatherly advice.
It's however amazing that she has invested more in her dark side( everybody got one) than the cosmetics of this thread. In this, she is blameworthy.
The similitude of what you did is like bringing a mirror to the open. The image the passer-by sees is as presented by you. You are not hunted by coogar,lafflaff and the host but you are your greatest advisary.

It is a deservice to you that your thread won't be read through the eye of your real life countenances. I have a feeling you truly might not be that bad as painted by some. Your tones fethched you the condemnation though. I sincerely hope you find the lasting peace you sincerely desire.

You won't get the much needed advise or solution you crave for here. It's lies within you and not with anyone else. If there is anything you have gained here, it is the proverbial " feign death and evaluate yourself in the eyes of people". You should learn from this and make amends where needed.

You don't seem to have a clear identity. You are seen as multi-faced, with hydra-headed life-styles. With this kind of trait,you can only scream to the heavens but won't get to live a fufilled life either as a single lady or wife eventually.
Mark a clear path for yourself- either as a potential accomplise( in online dating,val stuff or runs) or an accomplished potential (in your studies and if you beauty is tempting you too much,get A GOOD SUITOR out the many you claim to have and get married).

If you are truly committed to ending unnecessary advances from single and married men, then I think the way to go first is by making an official request to delete all those threads that turns your hunter to be the hunted.

Just an advice.....

The Boko Haram, its emergence, its no-one-know -them ghost story , the bombings, the amnesty ...... all na script been acted by the FG. The truth shall come out one day only that the sacrificial deads won't be around to listen.

defemz: Everybody see what i ve been saying, when christian preachers admonish their members not to give birth to the number of children they will not be able to cater for, muslim clerics quoting from the quran admonish the ummah to continue marrying wives and procreate with reckless abandon in a bid to dominate the world through population. The op is a product of unplanned and reckless procreation from a brainwashed parent who could not afford to give him quality education as evidenced in his faulty postings. Look around you whether in the north or south of Nigeria. Their children are either mechanic, agbero, almajiri, vulcanizers all because of foolishly heeding the directives of their archaic prophet(PBUH).
Your religion is pretty messed up. To many of you muslims in the southwest that are apologetic to your fellow muslims in the north killing christians and other innocent people,you may not have the blood of these innocent people in you hands, but you sure have their blood in your conscience.

Who is it ? Huwa Majnun!!!

ovo4u: Is it true one is not allowed to draw your muhammed?

It is not allowed. Why would you want to?

Sweetlemon: See, Tinubu is no saint! He's a thief sef.
But there are thieves and there are thieves.
Tinubu is the kind of thief we need now at the this particular point to help us do some really dirty work that a clean guy or a good guy will find too disgusting.
let's look at it this way, if you are a neat person and allergic to dirty things/places, you certainly wouldn't want to do some dirty work like clearing your gutter or stuffs like that. you employ someone who is used to filth.
There's just too much filth in the Nigerian system now and we need what I would call a very 'bad-good guy' to do this dirty job. We need him to clear out the filth to create way for a good guy to come in to do the good stuffs. It's like when you want to move into a new house, you clear out the dirt and scrub places before you start furnishing the house.
let's give ACN/APC a chance people, I am very sure they have something much more better to offer us than PDP. Just check out their membership and track records and compare it to PDP. ACN is not a saint party but you can see brilliant minds among them not just empty praise-singers and follow-follow people that mostly makes PDP. Please let's rid ourselves of sentiments. Sentiments will only rob us blind and lead us to our graves with frustration. I am a south-southerner. Proudly Akwa-Ibom, but I can't stand GEJ and his cohorts
God bless Nigeria!

I don't care who you are and from where you hailed from, but your style and the content of thoughts are simply irresistable. Your words are the creams of the creams of the creams! God bless Nigeria and all sane minds like you.

The message but not the messenger.

Pls can we privatize everything including this government and all its personnel from head to toe? These voices everytime......anyhow....always on anything.....and at nothing!

The worst case scenario is that the newly formed APC will end up being another PDP. Though I don't see this happening,but a worthy opposition either by just intentions, principle, association, spread or even make-believe or even by mere name will sanitize the polity.

Absolute power corrupt absolutely. Every reasonable Nigerian should support this emerging platform.

Ejiné:

I will never forget the blatant racism and bias shown by the Associated Press at the time of the Katrina hurricane in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Just look at these two pictures:

[img]http://carolineheldman.files./2010/08/katrina_looting_vs_finding.jpg[/img]

Oh yeah... The black guy carrying the groceries "LOOTED" the area, while the two white people carrying theirs "FOUND" them! SMH.

America is a shamelessly racist country at the end of the day.

Indoctrination through the use of the media is what the US is good at. Make u believe whatever they wishes. While the apartheid last in SA,Mandela was tagged a terrorist but when ,for instance, Isreal breaks UN resolutions , it is ragged "activism". The US only appears to be God's own country, in truism,they are dark side of the world.

princenat:

Why am I smiling at the bold part?

Tell me why, bro!

Do you pray your daughter brings home her suitor at 4o yrs+.

@50Calibre- I look forward to you praying your daughter brings home her suitor at 4o yrs+.

Apt! May Allaah give the unmarried ones amongst us their soulmates and grant more soulmates to men who needs more.

Handsomeness is not a crime but can land u into serious trouble. It reminds me of the story of Yusuf( Joseph) and his travails in the hands of women especially the king's wife. It landed him in prison. That was far back then in Egypt.
Too much beauty or handsomeness are sources of trials for the opposite gender. Saudi might just be protecting their own!

What is the worth of Buhari financially? How many businesses does Buhari has whose proceeds can sponsor world class co-ordinated terrorist attack? How many brand new cars can Buhari possibly have that he can decide to spare some as decoy for bomb detonation? How many off-shore accounts can Buhari be claimed to have that he can now bank-roll or sponsor terrorists cell? Which of the Boko harams is buhari actually sponsoring? Did Buhari killed Muhammed Yusuf in police custody? Where is Kabiru Sokoto? What could Gen. Azazi possibly be saying from the land of the dead? Wikipedia quoted Jonathan not Buhari!

Alamaseghier was instrumental to resolving the militancy in the creek but not after milking the state dry. He got the job done,he got pardoned ,what does Buhari get in return- Presidency?

Alams was a former Governor, he solved a National crises. Yar'a dua was a president,he brought an end to militancy what National imbroglio will Jonathan proudly solve?

Come to think of it- Imagine if Buhari visit Yobe and Borno, calls Boko Haram to order , what will the Presidency say?

I can imagine the vociferous spokeperson to say " What do you expect from him, afterall I was right to say he was their sponsor" and My President will say -" Who give a damn".

For Buhari, it is a LOOSE-LOOSE.

" Islam started as something strange and will,at the end of time reverts to something strange. But give glad tidings to the strangers"

The Prophet equally said " Towards the end time, a man holding on to the right faith will be like 'a man grasping the burning coal' or ' a melted iron'.

Looking at the daily insults the christian hurl at muslims and Islam, one cannot but felt forsaken. If not , how does a piece of information always invoke the innate wrath of these sets of men without true religious identity.

But ,such was the way of their ancestors;their predecesors in faith. They were a nation misguided. They invented lies and annoy their creator at wills. They falsify their books and invented falsehood. They belied their messengers,killed their prophets and purchased falsehood over light.

Grave punishment awaits you lot except you repent and submit to Your Fashioner and Nourisher,who created you and your fore-fathers; who is giving you respite until a time appointed when all that worship false deities and mortals shall cry :' Woe unto me'.

You can mock till eternity,we have been told mockery is your way. You can make the path crooked for the believers, true believers are immuned against your evil ways. You will live a life that is constrained in this world, serpents,scorpions will be your neighbours in the yonder and gnashing of teeth you will experience in your narrow,lonely and dark graves. You will have companions of stern looking angels who will not show you mercy. You will see clearly what your handiwork had fetched you. Too late to repent !!!

You christians are just wasting your time turning islam upside down. Your actions have been rendered fruitless before your mothers conceived you. What do you think of a war in which you engage your creator?. He shall render your plot weak. Verily, the plot of the devils are feeble.

You may gain upper hand in this world;boast of the gliterings of this world but you will be the utmost loosers on A Day when your mockery will not profit you and you will be amongst the loosers.

" In the Name of Allah: The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful.
All praises is due to Allah' The Lord of the entire universe
Custodian of the Day of Judgement
Thee ONLY do we worship' and from Thee alone we seek help
Guide us on the right path
The path of those you have bestowed your mercies upon
Not the path of those you have cursed(meaning jews) and not the path of the misguided ones(meaning christians)

NOW YOU CAN CONTINUE FROM WHERE YOU STOPPED TO SAY YOUR RUBBISH ABOUT ISLAM AND MUSLIM----- the moment you stop the bickering, that is the moment you will prove the Qur'an wrong!

honeric01:

hehe, you now need our help? On what exactly? Lend you our players?

No,don't bother lending us your player! Let's us swap places in our group or in the meantime let our countries exchange names.

Oh! Wait a minute , Am I sounding like a Ghanaian?

Now, the starlets surely have a great hurdle to climb with the 5 goals deficit.
The Eaglet has made things very difficult for them.

Can someone tell me the name of the highest mountain in Ghana? It is easier for the startlet to climb the mountain than to hoist their flag at the world championship!

But Eaglets can still help them sha.........

Man of God could be right in as much as everyone and anyone who fears God and avoid the way of the devil can bear such nomenclature. But does dt mean dt most of a church population if not all of them should be free to use the appelate of MOG.
This is obviously not the context in which it is used. It has become the copyright of a selected few who take joy is assuming a position of larger-than-life with God more than others. In this context,NO ONE,I MEAN NO ONE,should bear such appelate. To attribute righeteousness to oneself is wrong. Only God knows the one who truly worship Him.

Servants of God is not to be comprehended like a 'maid' that washes the dirty linen, wears rag, voiceless, not good enough to stay in the Main Building but the BQ in God's house and utterly condemned to serve eternally his/her masters.

The father is a servant to his family. The real leaders are true servants of the followers. The messaih can not be short of being a servant to truly worth the name. I cleric is a cleric not by virtue of extra-ordinary communion or piety with God. He is a cleric because he learns the way of God,not to buy private jets but to guide the lost ones through service to God and his flocks.

Like a shepherd, he clears the path,safeguard the flocks at night,provides water,see to their welfare and clears their smelling dungs.

Jesus was a fisherman. He was a shepherd. He served the drinks. He washed feets. He shares fruits with the disciples. He lowers the wing of humility and YET HE NEVER CALLED HIMSELF RIGHTEOUS/MOG but RATHER SAID I AM A SERVANT OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.

I am proud to be a servant of God!
But I am ready to change it to 'Man of God' only if I am ready to start collecting tithe....

beejaay:
thank you very much brother. you will never find any evidence though the story is only a similitude and the meaning is almost lost due to the EGO of mankind to be relevant (its more like a call for love for example when you hear the cry for help "life and death situation" even while u are praying then u are obliged to answer cos the call is much more important than the prayer. God uses mother most of the time to explain what love means because Love is the only thing that can conquer all not FEAR and mothers fit the Love profile perfectly).

May God increase you understanding

Jazaakallah khayr.

Coco diva:

This is an authentic hadith.This incident happened before the life of the prophet hence before Islam.BTW people/mothers still curse others/children for less serious things.May Allah save us.

May Allaah expand your knowledge and benefit u and us all with the right aqeedah!

Jazakallah!

movado19: @ PEN MIGHT: You wrote:"@ movado and deols- Deols threaded a path of caution but not u movado. How could u just conclude about the mother like that. Your analogy is very defective".

Please, which one is the path of caution again? I answered to what you posted about the son and his mum. When did that become a crime? The story does not make sense in anyway; what so ever.
So you are the one with knowledge now? What knowledge exactly? Islam is a very logical religion, so it doesn't require a "rocket science" for things to make sense.

I was particular about the story of son and mum,and not the others from my initial post.

So I have to be a scholar before using my brain, right? Maybe your scholar related this story to you and you took it all in without researching?

You said: "AND PLS PRODUCE EVIDENCE TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIMS THAT WHEN U ARE CALLED BY YOUR MOTHER WHILE IN SALAT,YOU ARE OBLIGED TO RESPOND. You won't find any evidence more than your hearsay".

Now, I ask you, Is this a way a MUSLIM should write or be to people? Why are you so defensive to the point of insulting me? Is it that difficult for you to communicate without a diatribe?

Please, read the below:


[i][b]Responding to Parents While in Prayer

Reference: Sharh Riyaad as Saliheen: 2/54 - Sh. Muhammad ibn Saalih al 'Uthaymeen

The benefit we derive from this phrase in this Hadeeth [1] is that it is an obligation to respond to your parents if they call on you while you are in prayer, but with the condition that the prayer is not an obligation. If the prayer is an obligation, then it is not permissible to respond to them, but if it is a Sunnah prayer then respond to them.

If however your parents are amongst those who weigh issues out correctly, and if they knew that you were praying when they called you they would excuse you, in this case you can signal to them that you are in prayer, by making a noise or saying Subhaan Allaah in a loud voice or raising your voice with the Ayah that you are reciting or a supplication that you are reading until the caller understands that you are in prayer.

If you know that your parents, your mother and father, are understanding and would excuse you if they knew that you were praying, then just indicate to them that you are praying.

For example, if your father approaches you and calls you by name while you are praying the Sunnah of Fajr, if he is an understanding man who would excuse you, then indicate to him that you are in prayer, say Subhaan Allaah, raise your voice in recitation or Du’aa or the Dhikr that you are reading so that he excuses you.

If your father however is amongst those who would not excuse you, he wants his say to be the uppermost, then cut off your Salaat and speak to him. Likewise is the case with your mother.

As for the obligatory prayer, then do not cut it off for anyone except if it is a necessity. For example, if you see someone who is in danger, such as someone falling into a well, the sea or a fire. In such a case cut off your obligatory prayer, other than such cases [i.e. emergencies] then do not cut off the obligatory prayer.

As an advise to you, ensure you ask your self "how would the prophet have handled this situation" before responding.

I still maintain that a lot of stories need to be filtered before acceptance, and that is a responsibility on each and everyone of us.

Sorry I ve to respond to you late. Hope u weren't agitated! Busy day!
It's needless taking up issues with you. We shouldn't be doing this here. I give you the honour of a brother,hence, my apology to you if you feel insulted. How could I insult you?

Nevertheless, you are miles off the point. U still doubt a hadith in Sahih Bukhari? Or do u call an incidence narrated by the prophet 'as not making sense'?
Islam is not illogical but islam is not base on logic. Logic was what made shaitan to deviate. Allah asked him: 'why did u not postrate to Adam'. Shaitan said: How can I postrate to the one whose creation was in my presence. 'I am better than him. I was created from fire and he(adam) was created from clay'. Wasn't shaitan logical? By all standard of Material Science , fire was better than clay!
Ali ibn Abi Talib said: Praises to Allah who has not founded His religion on logic,otherwise we would have been instructed to wipe the underneath of our khuf( leather shoe) rather than the top".

Do you still question the story of the mum and son base on logic even after I referenced textual evidence in the Noble Qur'an and the book of Tafsir? This is serious!

It is not beffitting for a believer,male and female,when Allah and His messenger have decided on a matter, to hold a divergent view on such affairs. Whomsoever disobeys Allaah and His messenger has indeed strayed into misguidance.

Don't you know u are just corroborating my points by the explanations you made about leaving salat when called? Did you read how I said scholars interpreted the hadith?I knew the position of the revered sheihk Uthaimeen that it is not permissible to leave obligatory prayer just on the call of your parent and without exegencies and that was what I challenged you to provide evidence for and that was what I captured in brevity in my initial analysis of the hadith.

The fundamental foundations of the deen is premised on sound knowledge that you and I should strive further to know. Half baked knowledge is no knowledge and it is surely a cancerworm;an advice to you and I.

But with the way you have presented your issues,I guess it was wrong to ve assumed too much of you.

You might please send me a mail for futher discourse.

Allaah knows best! Salaam.

Mintayo: .

I actually didnt want to say anything before,but seeing this post,i just have to talk.
Saying that,Abraham,isaac or ishmael,Jacob and his 12 sons are muslim is a LIE,as in big LIE.

Islam was nevr practise in the Bible,neither was mohammad mentioned too(except you want to say that islam was not brought by mohammed).
I repeat,Jesus was not and can never be a muslim,stop the heresy.
I guess your quran says all other prophets too were muslims including Paul?!

So was Abraham a christian?

Michaeljones36:

101. Kill all the non-believers.

You again? Will u ever stop this calumny?

Why been blinded by your sheer disdain for Islam and its teachings? You have gotten education here severally,yet you persist in always beating the drum of war! How many people and nations have been destroed in the past because of their heedlessness and arrogance!

You need to live your life,focus on it and leave issues that will profit u nothing but perdition.

Peace on he that follows the guidance.

ebansa:

You're the one that needs help.we christians also go astray and also misinterprete the bible when serving God,there are churches who interprete the bible in different ways but none of them endorse killing innocent people.why is it only your religion they misinterprete into TERRORISM

You are open-minded at least to agree people,either in Islam or xtainty , mis-interprete the Books.

But pls can u site an example of those mis-interpretation in the church that is less than terrorism?

I sincerely will like to know the limit of xtain mis-interpretations!

Laalamed: I think 8 and 85 contradict. Pls i need explanation.

Though I suspect no-matter-what your opinion is fixed but since u requested for clarification , I will oblige u with that.

85 comes before 8. You repel evil with good as long as you can hoping to make a friend off your enemy until your enemy fights you in a way that your life, your faith, your honour,your property is at stake.

At this point, permission is given to fight.

The Qur'an( I guess you don't believe in it? Y?) says:

" Perhaps Allah will make friendship between you and those whom you hold as enemies.And Allah has power over all things,and Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Allah does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion and did not drive you out of your homes. Verily, Allah loves those who deal with equity.

It is only as regards those who fought against you on account of religion,and have driven you out of your homes,and helped to drive you out,that Allah forbids you to befriend them,then such are the wrongdoers." Q 60 vs 7-9

Pls justapose these verses with my earlier explanation vis a vis the stages,conditions,contents and the desired end results.

Peace on he that follows Guidance!