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kingsways:
Lazy staff

The government is clear this holiday is for public servants not private sector employees

kingsways:
Lazy staff

The government is clear this holiday is for public servants not private sector employees

kingsways:
Lazy staff

The government is clear this holiday is for public servants not private sector employees

kingsways:
Lazy staff

The government is clear this holiday is for public servants not private sector employees

kingsways:
Lazy staff

The government is clear this holiday is for public servants not private sector employees

Globalhustler:
Nice. That's a bank that respects tradition, their staff safety and peace.

kingsways:
Lazy staff

The government is clear this holiday is for public servants not private sector employees

wediehere1:
those who sit at home on Mondays are what? Cowards? Lazy?

donbrowser:
Good. This is commendable. Traditionalists rights have been trampled on over the years.

musicwriter:
I am personally going to open a bank account at Sterling Bank for this. I may not bank in Billions but at least I know I am banking with a bank that believes in the sovereignty of the black race.

If we're ever going to be free on the African continent, this is the type of self determination that we need

AntiChristian:
Àwọn ẹlẹbọ!

mamaafrik:
Idiot, the kaaba wey you dey go kiss no be ìdol.

Daginishọrọ

Al-Bukhārī reports that ʿUmar – Allāh be pleased with him – came to the Black Stone (performing ṭawāf, circumambulation), kissed it, and said, “I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allāh’s Messenger – peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him – kiss you, I would never have kissed you.”

Al-Bukhārī, Al-Ṣaḥīḥ, Chapter on what has been said about the Black Stone.

Points to note
· The illustrious Companion and Caliph ʿUmar reminded us in this narration of the pure belief that benefit and harm are not caused by created objects and thus should not be sought from them. Only Allāh has control over these things.

· We are reminded that acts of worship are taken from Allāh’s Messenger, and a person is not supposed to make up his own way of worship, he must follow the manner of worship that the Prophet taught and practiced.

· We also learn that once an action is confirmed in the Sunnah, the believer submits and complies and practices it because it is confirmed that Allāh’s Messenger did it, even if we don’t know the wisdom behind it.

· This narration is also an example of how a responsible person tries to clarify and do away with any misunderstandings that people may have about matters of faith. The people had recently left their unbelief and polytheism, so ʿUmar wanted to make it clear that kissing the Black Stone is by no means done as an act of devotion to it, as people used to do with their stone idols.

Adapted from Ibn Ḥajr, Fatḥ Al-Bārī, and other ḥadīth commentaries.