AbdulSleeky:



So, we should blame everyone else apart from the muslim governors, the muslim leaders and the muslim boko haram for the terrorism in Northern Nigeria?

See how your fundamentalist version of islam has turned you into a lying propagandist?


The people to blame for terrorism and insecurity in the North are the muslim governors, the president and the imams who allowed people to be radicalized. The muslim governors not investing enough in empowerment and education. The Northern Nigeria has the highest amount of beggars (almajiri) and illiterates.

Keep trying to absolve muslims from the things they have done while they have done while claiming to be good muslims.


Before you argue with me, answer a simple question- who is responsible for this insecurity in the north?

AbdulSleeky:
Sharia is a total failure in Nigeria.

The sharia regions of Nigeria are home to the poorest and most illiterate areas of Nigeria.

Muslims fare better under secularism. See how Yoruba muslims live in peace with yoruba Christians in the south.

All religions under one roof equally represented. Secularism

AbdulSleeky:
Sharia is a total failure in Nigeria.

AbdulSleeky:
Em.piree,

Simple question-

Is it the constitution that is making southern Nigeria more literate and prosperous than the south?

Is it the constitution that is causing high rates illiteracy, child marriages and almajiris in the north?

Sharia has failed in Nigeria. Simple and short

Empiree:
You are still not truthful to yourself. The people in the videos I posted have spoken. Nigeria is listed as the 3rd capital poverty in the world. Entire citizens of nigeria are affected not only North. You are being deceitful for trying to single out Northern part of the country. By the way, it seems you don't know the meaning of Almajiri. It is Yoruba christians that deliberately messed up the pronunciation to undermine northern muslims. It is not "Almajiri'. It is called Al muhajirun i:e immigrants.

Once again, it is people like you that stare up religious and ethnic bigotry in the county. Nigeria constitution (secular democracy) is fraud and disgrace. It is what brought Nigeria to the pathetic situation. You guys are not peaceful. Did you even know that it was christians that convinced Yakubu Gowon during his administration to borrow money on interest from IMF instead of OIC (organisation of Islamic conference) in 1974?. That millions of dollars loan is still being paid till today. Your grandfather, your father, you, your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are still paying this loan. This is the genesis of Nigeria problem. OIC wanted to give interest free loan to Nigeria but greed, jealousy and hatred of christians for islam ad muslims is what led to this mess and you children of hate and bigotry continue to carry on this hate. smh

AbdulSleeky:



Guy, you are diverting away from the point-

Why is the North poorer and more illiterate than the south of Nigeria?

Sharia has failed in the North. simple and short.

Are there not muslims in the south? Do you know that I worked in a muslim town in the south? There are many towns like that in Oyo and Osun. They do not have problems with christians. I enjoyed myself in the muslim town. How man non-muslims can say that about the Northern muslims and their towns?


Sharia is directly responsible for the high numbers of illiteracy in the North and also child marriages. Prove me wrong

In the south, child marriages keep going down rapidly. Why is the north worse?

AbdulSleeky:




In trying to prove smart, you proved yourself to be ignorant. How can you ask if the president is responsible for the CBN. Do you know how much responsiblities and powers the president has over the CBN? The Governor of CBN is mandated to report to the president. The president appoints directors of CBN. This is law.
http://www.commonlii.org/ng/legis/num_act/cbond199/


I am not surprised. You are of low intelligence. Im sure that after supporting Buhari, you also prefer Trump to Biden.

b]Narrated Al-Bara bin Azib:

Allah's Apostle sent some men from the Ansar to ((kill) Abu Rafi, the Jew, and appointed 'Abdullah bin Atik as their leader. Abu Rafi used to hurt Allah's Apostle and help his enemies against him. He lived in his castle in the land of Hijaz. When those men approached (the castle) after the sun had set and the people had brought back their livestock to their homes. Abdullah (bin Atik) said to his companions, "Sit down at your places. I am going, and I will try to play a trick on the gate-keeper so that I may enter (the castle)." So 'Abdullah proceeded towards the castle, and when he approached the gate, he covered himself with his clothes, pretending to answer the call of nature. The people had gone in, and the gate-keeper (considered 'Abdullah as one of the castle's servants) addressing him saying, "O Allah's Servant! Enter if you wish, for I want to close the gate." 'Abdullah added in his story, "So I went in (the castle) and hid myself. When the people got inside, the gate-keeper closed the gate and hung the keys on a fixed wooden peg. I got up and took the keys and opened the gate. Some people were staying late at night with Abu Rafi for a pleasant night chat in a room of his. When his companions of nightly entertainment went away, I ascended to him, and whenever I opened a door, I closed it from inside. I said to myself, 'Should these people discover my presence, they will not be able to catch me till I have killed him.' So I reached him and found him sleeping in a house amidst his family, I could not recognize his location in the house. So I shouted, 'O Abu Rafi!' Abu Rafi said, 'Who is it?' I proceeded towards the source of the voice and hit him with the sword, and because of my perplexity, I could not kill him. He cried loudly, and I came out of the house and waited for a while, and then went to him again and said, 'What is this voice, O Abu Rafi?' He said, 'Woe to your mother! A man in my house has hit me with a sword! I again hit him severely but I did not kill him. Then I drove the point of the sword into his belly (and pressed it through) till it touched his back, and I realized that I have killed him. I then opened the doors one by one till I reached the staircase, and thinking that I had reached the ground, I stepped out and fell down and got my leg broken in a moonlit night. I tied my leg with a turban and proceeded on till I sat at the gate, and said, 'I will not go out tonight till I know that I have killed him.' So, when (early in the morning) the cock crowed, the announcer of the casualty stood on the wall saying, 'I announce the death of Abu Rafi, the merchant of Hijaz. Thereupon I went to my companions and said, 'Let us save ourselves, for Allah has killed Abu Rafi,' So I (along with my companions proceeded and) went to the Prophet and described the whole story to him. "He said, 'Stretch out your (broken) leg. I stretched it out and he rubbed it and it became All right as if I had never had any ailment whatsoever."[/b]

AbdulSleeky:


Empi.ree cannot say anything.

So much for the religion of peace

Empiree:
Pardon?. I have no idea what you are talking about. Say what to what?

AbdulSleeky:



lol......Islam keeps getting a bad name in the press.

Empiree:




*What do you learn from this?*

Some people, faced with such a situation will fold up & die, or cry witch hunt or marginalisation, unaware that heaven is presenting them with a rare opportunity to break forth. Some would even go to their pastors & arrange for prayer warriors to pray down fire & brimstone on their relatives who are the perceived architects of their troubles, forgetting that it is God who created the blacksmith & ordered him to forge weapons of war, as well as the waster who uses them to wreak havoc. May God give us this day, the wisdom to discover the opportunities in our adversities.

AbdulSleeky:



If only you take your own advice.

Every day, you cry about how non-muslims always attack islam and how everyone is islamophobic.

If you took the bull by the horns and addressed the issues in islam directly, you wouldn't be crying here daily.

Islam needs reform but you will never listen.

Empiree:
Is it not clearer and clearer by the day that you are islamophobic?. The write up by the fellow has nothing to do with islam not even christianity per se but you till found a way to interject islam into. Get well soon, buddy.

AbdulSleeky:


I'm an islamophobe that knows more about islam than the average muslim.

I'm an islamophobe that employs muslims.

I'm an islamophobe that has dated muslim women.


You are a clown and you are using religion to hide your apparent ignorance.

Empiree:
Excuse me?. What's my business with your personal life?. You chose to employed muslims. That's humanity not religion. You chose to date muslim, that your interest. Reason you did that was best known to you. How's that anyone's business?

Empiree:
Farewell to a Yoruba, Muslim Princess



Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde
Bauchi
13 December 2020

Empiree:
Farewell to a Yoruba, Muslim Princess

I will start with a footnote on the billionaire Bishop, David Bello Oyedepo. He was born a Muslim, named Hasan by his father Bello Oyedepo. His mother was a Christian who converted to Islam when she married Bello. Bello had three other wives. After his higher education, Hasan became David. He instantly became a strong, aggressive and successful Christian activist. With his stupendous wealth, he reverted his mother to Christianity; then his father and brothers; then all except his three stepmothers who stuck to their guns and died Muslims. The last of them—Aasiyat— is the subject matter of this piece.

I set out searching for her in late 2013 when I read about how Bishop Oyedepo allegedly prophesized that she will die a miserably poor woman unless she converts to Christianity, like most other members of his family. Muslims on social media were shocked by the Bishop’s utterances.

After reading about her, I set out to meet her in 2013. I visited the headquarters of the Living Faith Church in Iyana Apaja, Lagos. Someone in a nearby mosque told me that the native home of the Oyedepos is in Omuaran, Kwara State. I drove to Ilorin the following morning and arrived Omuaran during Juma’ah congregation. After the prayer, I met the leaders of the mosque, introduced myself and asked about “Bishop Oyedepo’s sister who refused to convert to Christianity.” They became sceptical and started to interrogate me. They even brought a Fulani herder to confirm that I was indeed Fulani.

Finally, I was handed over to one brother, Bello Saad Bamidele, with whom we drove a short distance before arriving at the Oyedepo family house. Behind the front block was a flat in which a woman in her sixties was living. Bello entered and announced our arrival. After she was ready, I was ushered into her parlour. She was shy, full of smiles, but few words. She spoke only Yoruba; so Bello was very handy at the time and on my subsequent visits to her.

I did not want to open fresh wounds especially giving her shy nature; so I avoided asking her about her relationship with David. Instead, we focussed on Islam. I told her that it saddens other Muslims to learn about the pressure on her to convert to Christianity and salute her resolve to remain Muslim. I expressed the solidarity of other Nigerian Muslims with her and recounted the testimony that God gave about her namesake, the wife of Pharaoh, who kept her faith in the face of difficulties and, before God, became a symbol of faith who prayed to Him for a house in Heaven and rescue from Pharaoh and oppression.

Before I left her that afternoon, I asked Aasiyat if she had a request before the Muslim Ummah. She smiled and dropped her head for a while. Finally, when she gathered the courage to open up, she giraffed and whispered into the ear of Bello, who, having heard her request, shouted Allahu akbar! “What did she say,” I enquired, impatiently. He said, “She will love to fulfil her lifetime ambition—a pilgrimage to Mecca.” Look! She did not ask for money. Not a house or anything material. But just a spiritual journey. I told her that it was a modest request and we will pray that God grants it..

Alhamdulillah. He did. By the time the Hajj season commenced in 2014, I got in touch with a great sister, Fatima Afolore Jimoh, the then Secretary of the Pilgrims Board in Ilorin. She assured me of a seat and helped a lot to see that things went well. I linked her up with Bello in Omuaran and all arrangement were completed. The scheme nearly got k-legged when Aasiyat’s sons and other family members discovered she would travel to Mecca. They started agitating against it but we were faster, alhamdulillah. � We quickly ‘abducted’ Aasiyat from Omuaran, shipped her to Ilorin and hid her in a house until her day of departure to the Holy Land. Kudos to Fatima. What a great sister she is!

Aasiyat performed her hajj successfully without any hitch and returned from Mecca a very happy Muslim. She was all smiles when I visited her. She held a ceremony, thanking God for that. The Muslim community of Omuaran continued to support her especially when she fell sick lately. When we spoke last Monday, Saad told me she has recovered from a severe sickness. This morning, he told me that she relapsed and taken to a hospital in Ibadan, where she died last night. The most interesting part was that she was blessed with the Kalimah as her last word. Mashaallah!

And so was the end, here, for her. I salute her resolve to live by her conviction as I saluted the Boko Haram abducted girl—Liya Sharibu—who refused to convert to Islam as demanded by her captors. Aasiyat and the two cowives that died before her chose to remain Muslim. That is the power of conviction. She would have succumbed to the pressure from her two sons—surely the dearest to her heart—both of whom are now pastors, converted to Christianity by Bishop Oyedepo. No. She chose God over man and the Hereafter over the temporary glitters of this world. She died committed to her choice, a symbol of faith and conviction.

Sister Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo, the Princess of Islam, will be buried tomorrow afternoon in her native town of Omuaran. Our sincere condolences go to the Muslim community of Omuaran and Kwara State in general, to all those who anchored her in faith, including Bello and Sister Fatima. Our condolences also to the Oyedepos, including the Bishop David. May he soon revert to Hasan before he leaves the glitters of this world behind. Amin yaa Rabb! � Nothing is beyond Him.

May the Princess of the Faithful, Aasiyat, meet in Heaven the symbols of faith—her namesake and Virgin Mary—where they will together dwell in the gardens and rivers which their Lord promised the righteous:

“Lo! The righteous will dwell among gardens and rivers.
Firmly established in the favour of a Mighty King.” (54:54-55)

Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde
Bauchi
13 December 2020