I saw this piece somewhere, and I actually thought I should share it on this thread, since it captured my observation, and that of some, I believe, about the Islam thread on nairaland. I hardly express views here, my main reason being the high level of discrimination being perpetrated here. I realize that even amongst we Muslims, there is no unity. If we cannot stand together, how do we want to stand against verbal attacks on us.

Enjoy the write up. It is titled:
BUSY AT NOTHING! (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIAN MUSLIMS)...


In as much as I would want this article to reach
the totality of Muslims in this nation, if possible...
I wouldn't also want a Non-Muslim to get a
glimpse of this for it has gone beyond mere
shame. It is a pitiful eventuality of caricature that
shouldn't be learnt of by others, except that they
laugh in profound mockery and revalidate their
claims of fallacy that this Islam, is indeed a
misleading invention (I seek Allah's refuge from
disbelief).
While the Christians are perambulating in severe
strive, in the name of salvation, to gather more
people into their religion and targeting the
Muslims most especially, the Muslims are busy
tackling and fighting against one another and
giving the "trying Muslims" a headway to join the
Christians.
Who are "trying Muslims"? They are the Nominal
Muslims, who just bear Islamic names but are not
active in any voluntary or involuntary practices of
an ideal Muslim. If they are, it happens just once
in a blue moon. They are the ones that the
Christians capture the most! This is because the
knowledgeable Muslims are busy giving them "hot
lectures"; lectures of... "if you don't do so, so and
so, you go to hell". After that none the less, they
ignore their welfare and expect them to be on the
straight path! What vanity!
The other day, a Christian organisation came into
my school (UNILAG) with thousands of forms to
be filled. Forms that display awaiting jobs to be
taken after graduating from the school. They gave
them to interested final year students to fill and
you could see that they were specifically and
particularly focusing on the Muslims, persuading
them to fill the forms. So you could see even the
small-Hijab sisters filling the forms so
enthusiastically.
Going down the footnote of the form, it was
powered by a Christian organisation who invited
the individual who has filled the form to come
down to the church on two Sundays for
orientation and shouldn't worry about breakfast
for it would be handsomely catered for.
I'm not uncertain that majority are not aware of
the Redeemed Convention, whose ambitious
objectives are to, apart from the situation of a
Church of its in every Nigerian Street, make a
Redeemed member, at least, a member of every
single family! Now, they have even resolved into
their men, marrying the Muslim ladies regardless
of their Islamic religious beings! Can you see that
we Muslims are busy at nothing!
I've also heard stories of yet another church
organisation, promising Muslim students who
convert to Christianity, two hundred and fifty
thousand Naira cash and Apple laptops each and
some Muslims with half-baked faith lost their way
through this! Are we supposed to continue this
way?
The seriousness with which the Christians pay
their tithe cannot be over emphasised. These are
what they use the tithes for! Get more Christians
from amongst! But what are my fellow Muslims
doing? After reading the whole Islamic
jurisprudence, law, and literatures; then they go
hunting one another and segregating themselves
into sects and accusing one sect or the other of
deviating from Islamic norms and order!
Is this what should be given absolute priority at
this time? A time when Muslims are fast
converting into Christianity due to economic
challenges, Islamophobia and welfare retardation.
The Christians use this as a means to capture
them, giving them a guarantee of breakout from
their poverty-striken lives! What are the rich
Muslims doing? They keep going to Hajj annually
and ignore the Penury conditions of their fellow
Muslims. Some travel to places where Islam is
already established in the bid to call to Islam
while abandoning their own nationality where
Islam has a shaky leg. What can we call that?
Busy at nothing!
What pains me most is this! They say "we are
doing Da'wah (calling to Islam)". For Allah's
sake, who needs Da'wah most? Is it people who
are already Muslims or People who are yet to
believe in the Oneness of Allah? The Christians
will have the impetus and audacity to move close
to Muslims, appearing as one in all ramifications,
in caps and Hijabs and preach the Gospel, all in
the name of evangelism. This is an Islamic
heritage! But the Muslims have abandoned it to
the Christians. Lugubrious!
What do the Muslims do? They place their overall
Da'wah on another Muslim who comes to
mosque everyday but doesn't fly his trousers or
keep his beards! They creep behind one another in
secret observation and come back with news of...
"I saw that brother talking to another sister in the
close or I saw that sister not lowering her gaze
upon another brother while they conversed", what
misplacement of priorities! They, among the
Muslim women, do nothing about calling a non
Muslim lady to Islam but rather, they concentrate
all their acclaimed Da'wah on a sister who's
already a Muslim in a little Hijab or pashmina,
telling her that "if you don't use a bigger Hijab,
you will go to hell!" Now tell me, how wouldn't
such be enticed by Christians and yield so easily?
Some Muslim men have the whole Quran,
Minhajul Muslim, Sahih Bukhari, Riyaadus
Soliheen and other Islamic documents in their
memories by heart, but have never set out one
day to go preaching to a non Muslim on how to
become a believer. Rather, they sit down in
mosques, and wait in "intellectual ambush"
against another Muslim, observing their practical
and verbal mistakes and raising unnecessary
arguments over such when they are eventually
committed.
What are Muslims doing? Busy at nothing!!!
I have intentionally decided to forgo any Quranic
verses or Hadith references in this write up! It is a
deliberate attempt to project the fact that the
eyes and brain that Allah gives us to see and
judge things respectively, aren't just there to read
literatures and memorise Quran and Ahadith alone
but to behold what goes on in our surrounding
and ask ourselves judiciously, "what are we really
doing? Da'wah or Dower?"
Let us think!

Let me make it clear that I belong to the Sufi sect. Because I know people here are bound to start what they know best how to do. Attack one another!!!

I couldnt have said it better op. Many shuyuk in nija have said this including Sheikh Adam(ra). He said "we have people to give dawah to and people we need to fight but we are busy fighting amongst ourselves."

Problem with Muslims today is LACK OF WISDOM.

wolesmile:
Let me make it clear that I belong to the Sufi sect. Because I know people here are bound to start what they know best how to do. Attack one another!!!

Is it advisable to call someone to your house when its all messed up

Empiree:

You have no problem with him because he said he is Sufi, but let someone speak about the methodology of the salafs(sahabas inclusive), that's when you will remember "The Rise and fall of salafiyyah" at some particular location.

wolesmile:
Let me make it clear that I belong to the Sufi sect. Because I know people here are bound to start what they know best how to do. Attack one another!!!

Of course! You have to be Sufi.

wolesmile:
I saw this piece somewhere, and I actually thought I should share it on this thread, since it captured my observation, and that of some, I believe, about the Islam thread on nairaland. I hardly express views here, my main reason being the high level of discrimination being perpetrated here. I realize that even amongst we Muslims, there is no unity. If we cannot stand together, how do we want to stand against verbal attacks on us.

Enjoy the write up. It is titled:
BUSY AT NOTHING! (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIAN MUSLIMS)...


In as much as I would want this article to reach
the totality of Muslims in this nation, if possible...
I wouldn't also want a Non-Muslim to get a
glimpse of this for it has gone beyond mere
shame. It is a pitiful eventuality of caricature that
shouldn't be learnt of by others, except that they
laugh in profound mockery and revalidate their
claims of fallacy that this Islam, is indeed a
misleading invention (I seek Allah's refuge from
disbelief).
While the Christians are perambulating in severe
strive, in the name of salvation, to gather more
people into their religion and targeting the
Muslims most especially, the Muslims are busy
tackling and fighting against one another and
giving the "trying Muslims" a headway to join the
Christians.
Who are "trying Muslims"? They are the Nominal
Muslims, who just bear Islamic names but are not
active in any voluntary or involuntary practices of
an ideal Muslim. If they are, it happens just once
in a blue moon. They are the ones that the
Christians capture the most! This is because the
knowledgeable Muslims are busy giving them "hot
lectures"; lectures of... "if you don't do so, so and
so, you go to hell". After that none the less, they
ignore their welfare and expect them to be on the
straight path! What vanity!
The other day, a Christian organisation came into
my school (UNILAG) with thousands of forms to
be filled. Forms that display awaiting jobs to be
taken after graduating from the school. They gave
them to interested final year students to fill and
you could see that they were specifically and
particularly focusing on the Muslims, persuading
them to fill the forms. So you could see even the
small-Hijab sisters filling the forms so
enthusiastically.
Going down the footnote of the form, it was
powered by a Christian organisation who invited
the individual who has filled the form to come
down to the church on two Sundays for
orientation and shouldn't worry about breakfast
for it would be handsomely catered for.
I'm not uncertain that majority are not aware of
the Redeemed Convention, whose ambitious
objectives are to, apart from the situation of a
Church of its in every Nigerian Street, make a
Redeemed member, at least, a member of every
single family! Now, they have even resolved into
their men, marrying the Muslim ladies regardless
of their Islamic religious beings! Can you see that
we Muslims are busy at nothing!
I've also heard stories of yet another church
organisation, promising Muslim students who
convert to Christianity, two hundred and fifty
thousand Naira cash and Apple laptops each and
some Muslims with half-baked faith lost their way
through this! Are we supposed to continue this
way?
The seriousness with which the Christians pay
their tithe cannot be over emphasised. These are
what they use the tithes for! Get more Christians
from amongst! But what are my fellow Muslims
doing? After reading the whole Islamic
jurisprudence, law, and literatures; then they go
hunting one another and segregating themselves
into sects and accusing one sect or the other of
deviating from Islamic norms and order!
Is this what should be given absolute priority at
this time? A time when Muslims are fast
converting into Christianity due to economic
challenges, Islamophobia and welfare retardation.
The Christians use this as a means to capture
them, giving them a guarantee of breakout from
their poverty-striken lives! What are the rich
Muslims doing? They keep going to Hajj annually
and ignore the Penury conditions of their fellow
Muslims. Some travel to places where Islam is
already established in the bid to call to Islam
while abandoning their own nationality where
Islam has a shaky leg. What can we call that?
Busy at nothing!
What pains me most is this! They say "we are
doing Da'wah (calling to Islam)". For Allah's
sake, who needs Da'wah most? Is it people who
are already Muslims or People who are yet to
believe in the Oneness of Allah? The Christians
will have the impetus and audacity to move close
to Muslims, appearing as one in all ramifications,
in caps and Hijabs and preach the Gospel, all in
the name of evangelism. This is an Islamic
heritage! But the Muslims have abandoned it to
the Christians. Lugubrious!
What do the Muslims do? They place their overall
Da'wah on another Muslim who comes to
mosque everyday but doesn't fly his trousers or
keep his beards! They creep behind one another in
secret observation and come back with news of...
"I saw that brother talking to another sister in the
close or I saw that sister not lowering her gaze
upon another brother while they conversed", what
misplacement of priorities! They, among the
Muslim women, do nothing about calling a non
Muslim lady to Islam but rather, they concentrate
all their acclaimed Da'wah on a sister who's
already a Muslim in a little Hijab or pashmina,
telling her that "if you don't use a bigger Hijab,
you will go to hell!" Now tell me, how wouldn't
such be enticed by Christians and yield so easily?
Some Muslim men have the whole Quran,
Minhajul Muslim, Sahih Bukhari, Riyaadus
Soliheen and other Islamic documents in their
memories by heart, but have never set out one
day to go preaching to a non Muslim on how to
become a believer. Rather, they sit down in
mosques, and wait in "intellectual ambush"
against another Muslim, observing their practical
and verbal mistakes and raising unnecessary
arguments over such when they are eventually
committed.
What are Muslims doing? Busy at nothing!!!
I have intentionally decided to forgo any Quranic
verses or Hadith references in this write up! It is a
deliberate attempt to project the fact that the
eyes and brain that Allah gives us to see and
judge things respectively, aren't just there to read
literatures and memorise Quran and Ahadith alone
but to behold what goes on in our surrounding
and ask ourselves judiciously, "what are we really
doing? Da'wah or Dower?"
Let us think!

what are we really
doing? Honestly speaking, muslims have got lots to do in achieving oneness as a community because the issues u highlighted here r just nip in the bud! We need to go back to drawing board.

lexiconkabir:


You have no problem with him because he said he is Sufi, but let someone speak about the methodology of the salafs(sahabas inclusive), that's when you will remember "The Rise and fall of salafiyyah" at some particular location.

I don't think you should have drawn this conclusion. I was only smiling bcus he said he would be criticized for saying he's sufi. I Wanted to say something else but I decided to hold back.

His op makes sense. Many have said that not only Nigerians. It's wrong to say "its all have messed up". That's to you unfortunately. If it's all messed up, who's Muslim then?.

lexiconkabir:


Of course! You have to be Sufi.

And I am proud to be. You cannot know a path until you have travelled on that path

wolesmile:
I saw this piece somewhere, and I actually thought I should share it on this thread, since it captured my observation, and that of some, I believe, about the Islam thread on nairaland. I hardly express views here, my main reason being the high level of discrimination being perpetrated here. I realize that even amongst we Muslims, there is no unity. If we cannot stand together, how do we want to stand against verbal attacks on us.

Enjoy the write up. It is titled:
BUSY AT NOTHING! (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIAN MUSLIMS)...


In as much as I would want this article to reach
the totality of Muslims in this nation, if possible...
I wouldn't also want a Non-Muslim to get a
glimpse of this for it has gone beyond mere
shame. It is a pitiful eventuality of caricature that
shouldn't be learnt of by others, except that they
laugh in profound mockery and revalidate their
claims of fallacy that this Islam, is indeed a
misleading invention (I seek Allah's refuge from
disbelief).
While the Christians are perambulating in severe
strive, in the name of salvation, to gather more
people into their religion and targeting the
Muslims most especially, the Muslims are busy
tackling and fighting against one another and
giving the "trying Muslims" a headway to join the
Christians.
Who are "trying Muslims"? They are the Nominal
Muslims, who just bear Islamic names but are not
active in any voluntary or involuntary practices of
an ideal Muslim. If they are, it happens just once
in a blue moon. They are the ones that the
Christians capture the most! This is because the
knowledgeable Muslims are busy giving them "hot
lectures"; lectures of... "if you don't do so, so and
so, you go to hell". After that none the less, they
ignore their welfare and expect them to be on the
straight path! What vanity!
The other day, a Christian organisation came into
my school (UNILAG) with thousands of forms to
be filled. Forms that display awaiting jobs to be
taken after graduating from the school. They gave
them to interested final year students to fill and
you could see that they were specifically and
particularly focusing on the Muslims, persuading
them to fill the forms. So you could see even the
small-Hijab sisters filling the forms so
enthusiastically.
Going down the footnote of the form, it was
powered by a Christian organisation who invited
the individual who has filled the form to come
down to the church on two Sundays for
orientation and shouldn't worry about breakfast
for it would be handsomely catered for.
I'm not uncertain that majority are not aware of
the Redeemed Convention, whose ambitious
objectives are to, apart from the situation of a
Church of its in every Nigerian Street, make a
Redeemed member, at least, a member of every
single family! Now, they have even resolved into
their men, marrying the Muslim ladies regardless
of their Islamic religious beings! Can you see that
we Muslims are busy at nothing!
I've also heard stories of yet another church
organisation, promising Muslim students who
convert to Christianity, two hundred and fifty
thousand Naira cash and Apple laptops each and
some Muslims with half-baked faith lost their way
through this! Are we supposed to continue this
way?
The seriousness with which the Christians pay
their tithe cannot be over emphasised. These are
what they use the tithes for! Get more Christians
from amongst! But what are my fellow Muslims
doing? After reading the whole Islamic
jurisprudence, law, and literatures; then they go
hunting one another and segregating themselves
into sects and accusing one sect or the other of
deviating from Islamic norms and order!
Is this what should be given absolute priority at
this time? A time when Muslims are fast
converting into Christianity due to economic
challenges, Islamophobia and welfare retardation.
The Christians use this as a means to capture
them, giving them a guarantee of breakout from
their poverty-striken lives! What are the rich
Muslims doing? They keep going to Hajj annually
and ignore the Penury conditions of their fellow
Muslims. Some travel to places where Islam is
already established in the bid to call to Islam
while abandoning their own nationality where
Islam has a shaky leg. What can we call that?
Busy at nothing!
What pains me most is this! They say "we are
doing Da'wah (calling to Islam)". For Allah's
sake, who needs Da'wah most? Is it people who
are already Muslims or People who are yet to
believe in the Oneness of Allah? The Christians
will have the impetus and audacity to move close
to Muslims, appearing as one in all ramifications,
in caps and Hijabs and preach the Gospel, all in
the name of evangelism. This is an Islamic
heritage! But the Muslims have abandoned it to
the Christians. Lugubrious!
What do the Muslims do? They place their overall
Da'wah on another Muslim who comes to
mosque everyday but doesn't fly his trousers or
keep his beards! They creep behind one another in
secret observation and come back with news of...
"I saw that brother talking to another sister in the
close or I saw that sister not lowering her gaze
upon another brother while they conversed", what
misplacement of priorities! They, among the
Muslim women, do nothing about calling a non
Muslim lady to Islam but rather, they concentrate
all their acclaimed Da'wah on a sister who's
already a Muslim in a little Hijab or pashmina,
telling her that "if you don't use a bigger Hijab,
you will go to hell!" Now tell me, how wouldn't
such be enticed by Christians and yield so easily?
Some Muslim men have the whole Quran,
Minhajul Muslim, Sahih Bukhari, Riyaadus
Soliheen and other Islamic documents in their
memories by heart, but have never set out one
day to go preaching to a non Muslim on how to
become a believer. Rather, they sit down in
mosques, and wait in "intellectual ambush"
against another Muslim, observing their practical
and verbal mistakes and raising unnecessary
arguments over such when they are eventually
committed.
What are Muslims doing? Busy at nothing!!!
I have intentionally decided to forgo any Quranic
verses or Hadith references in this write up! It is a
deliberate attempt to project the fact that the
eyes and brain that Allah gives us to see and
judge things respectively, aren't just there to read
literatures and memorise Quran and Ahadith alone
but to behold what goes on in our surrounding
and ask ourselves judiciously, "what are we really
doing? Da'wah or Dower?"
Let us think!

..well writing, thank you for sharing.