₦airaland Forum

Farmerforlife:
A fatwa declaring what? Fatwas are rulings based on Islamic law derived from Islamic sources. Which verse or hadith will permit a fatwa preventing Muslims from performing Jumaat prayer? Jumat prayer is obligatory on Muslims and this is not negotiable. Rather, the government should take into account the population of Muslims in every location and provide more permits to accomodate the growing need for mosques, in the same way that a highway is expanded when the traffic increases.
The reason why they do not pritest in the US or the UK is because the government takes into account the facts and figures before they grant the permit, not after. The Ondo State example you cited planned to destroy an existing mosque without any alternative whatsoever. If anything, that would have made the problem of praying in the streets of that location worse, not better, as the Muslims would have had to shift to smaller mosques in the area, and more streets would have been blocked... just another example of improper planning and shallow analysis.

superhumanist:
Why would I waste my time reading a book that would be biased? If the roots of democracy were to be from christianity, Jesus would have been a democratic leader.

Sir, your position is false. Democracy existed separately from christianity for hundreds of years. Please, be honest to yourself.

superhumanist:
Democracy is in no way attributable to christianity. Spain had parliaments before England. English parliaments did not start because of the Anglican church.

PaulJohn1:
Location
It is located in the heart of the Yoruba Kindom(found in Nigeria and the republic of Benin). Osun State is bounded in the West by Oyo State, Ondo and Ekiti States in the East, Kwara State in the North and Ogun in the South.

Tourist Centres
The state has a rich cultural heritage which shows in their music, art, dances, dresses and cultural festivals. They are well known for their talking drums and bata music. They are also known for excellent works of art.

Some tourist attractions in the state of Osun include:
*The famous Ife bronze, (Ile-Ife)
*The Oranmiyan Staff which is believed to be the fighting stick of Oranmiyan, the son of Oduduwa who was a great warrior(Ile-Ife)
*The popular Osun-Osogbo cultural festival. (Oshogbo)
*The Ife Museum (Ile-Ife)
*Obafemi Awolowo University Zoological gardens, Ile-Ase. (Ile-Ife)
*Yeyemolu Shrines and Oduduwa groove, (Ile-Ife.)
*Osun Osogbo Sacred Groove - venue of the internationally recognized Osun Osogbo festival and a UNESCO, world heritage site (Oshogbo)
*Adunni Susan Wengers Centre, (Oshogbo)
Genesis Arts Gallery
*Nike Arts Gallery (Oshogbo)
*Jalumi War Site, (Inisa)
*The Olumirin Water-Falls, (Erin-Ijesa)
*Igbo-Sango (Ede)
*Ayikunugba Water- Falls (Oke-Ila)

Natural Resources
Osun State is blessed with vast mineral resources. These include gold, clay, limestone, kaolin and granite. It also has many agricultural resources.

loneatar:
do you stay in Liberia?

loneatar:
Here in Liberia their use cassava leaf to prepare soup
Their are susceptible to sex by nature

makydebbie:
Lol bae it's not that bad.
It's only three weddings I've attended and I no get food to chop. Maybe others will be different sha.
So you no fit attend my court wedding?

richard870:
About a certain African tribe exhuming bodies of dead relatives to show they still care ...

Abdullahibnhas4:
Islam is a very simple Religion. Islam simply means submitting yourself in peace to the Absolute One and Living GOD:
"Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him. (The Noble Quran, 112:1-4)"

"Then Praise be to Allah, Lord of the heavens and Lord of the earth- Lord and Cherisher of all the worlds! To Him be Glory throughout the heavens and the earth: and He is Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom!. (The Noble Quran, 45:36-37)"

"Say: 'O People of the Book (i.e., Jews and Christians)! Come to common terms as between us and you: That we worship none but Allah; that we associate no partners with Him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than Allah.' If then they turn back, say ye: 'Bear witness that we (at least) are Muslims (bowing to Allah's Will).' (The Noble Quran, 3:64)"

BetterChurch:
"Eckankar...its simplicity, once grasped, is staggering to the intellect." The Shariyat-Ki-
Sugmad ...

Deicide:
Who made Nigeria a secular state? you? Nigeria is an islamic state at least thats what the whole world think we are and besides what kind of secular state supports Sharia Law in its constitution?

Deicide:
Who made Nigeria a secular state? you? Nigeria is an islamic state at least thats what the whole world think we are and besides what kind of secular state supports Sharia Law in its constitution?

Farmerforlife:
What solution do you propose if it is 'abolished'? Or what do you think will happen? Muslims will look in, see the mosque full and go back home? Lol.



The phenomenon is a result of bad planning by the government. If proper allowance was made for the growing Muslim populations, they will have no need to block the roads.

When I am passing Ibadan-Lagos expressway during one of the RCCG programmes, I only blame the government for approving a building plan without asking the proper questions, like what facilities are put in place for traffic control, what number of people are expected etc. I do not blame the RCCG itself for seizing the opportunity due to an inefficient system. We frustrated passers by just adapt.

Before approving Jumat mosques, the government should ask similar questions. They don't, and I don't blame the mosque authorities either. The worshippers cannot also be blamed. They must pray. The passersby should adapt.

The only other option is more efficient town planning systems for approval for public places, taking religious sensibilities into consideration, rather than the size of the brown envelope presented. Every day, Monday-Friday, it takes me close to half an hour to cover about a 100 metres of tarred road, simply because approval was given to a school to build directly on the road with no parking lot whatsoever, creating a huge traffic jam out of the estate area. The school could never smell approval in the UK or the US for example. My solution?
I learnt to leave early.

You get my point. Cheers.

YOLO1:
Not asking this to cause religious divide here but want to know the views of people especially our Muslims brothers here on their views about blocking federal highway every Friday for prayer.
Work has taken me to almost all the northern states over the last five years and most times I travel back on Fridays. But it is always annoying to me as a non Muslim to meet a road block due to some people using the express way as a praying ground. This gets more painful when you still have much distance to cover.
This does not happen only in the North. In the southwest, I stay close to Sabo. And this happens also every Friday.
Is this praying style acceptable or should be abolished?
Over to you my Muslim friends

adepeter2027:
My bads for referring to you as a Christian.

BTW, this is NL, you gat to be ya self.
Seems you haven't gotten in contact with Analice107, only then will you realize the big gap between insults and words

hahn:
Yeah. Like Christians on this forum can have a debate without hurling insults

adepeter2027:
He's actually referring to stupidtheist

Some Christians are funny sha

hopefulLandlord:
oh! you should've been specific about that part, yeah, anyone giving a clickable link risks a ban especially blogs

let's say I have a blog called hopefulLandlord , its advisable to post the link as HopefulLandlord . . com then tell the viewers to remove the spaces and visit

hopefulLandlord:
what? I'm not having a go at you bro, I just learnt you have a blog and I'll like to check it out haha

I've already moved on from "downvote"

you can decline giving your blog address though, no bigie

hopefulLandlord:
fair enough bro

give me your blog's address, make sure its not clickable by adding spaces before and after (.) so you don't run the risk of a ban

hopefulLandlord:
"Down vote"? was this copied somewhere? last I checked its actually impossible to down vote a post on Nairaland

BetterChurch:
Basic Beliefs of Eckankar

Harold Klemp, the spiritual leader of Eckankar, describes the basic beliefs of Eckankar as follows:


The teachings of ECK define the nature of Soul more carefully than do other current religions. Each person is Soul, a particle of God sent into the lower worlds (including earth) to gain spiritual experience. Purified by the spiritual exercises, he comes into contact with the Holy Spirit. His goal is spiritual freedom in this lifetime, after which he becomes a Co-worker with God, both here and in the next world. Karma and reincarnation are primary beliefs.

Key to the ECK teachings is the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. He has the special ability to act as both Inner and Outer Master for ECK students. He is the prophet of Eckankar, given respect but not worship. He teaches the sacred name of God, HU, which lifts one spiritually into the Light and Sound of God, the ECK.

The ECK (the Holy Spirit) purifies one of karma (sin), making it possible for him to accept the full love of God in this lifetime. Then he gains wisdom, charity, and freedom.

Personal experience with the Light and Sound of God is the cornerstone of Eckankar. Of all the religions on earth today, Eckankar offers the most direct teachings on the Light and Sound of God. These twin pillars are missing in whole or in part from the rest. People who truly find these two aspects of God undergo a complete spiritual change. Life becomes fresh and new again, as it was in early childhood.

—Harold Klemp
"What Is ECKANKAR?"
The Temple of ECK

Eckankar teaches . . .
•Soul is eternal.
•Soul exists because God loves It.
•Soul is on a journey of Self- and God-Realization.
•Spiritual unfoldment can be accelerated through conscious contact with the ECK, Divine Spirit.
•This contact can be made via the Spiritual Exercises of ECK and the guidance of the Living ECK Master.
•You can actively explore the spiritual worlds through Soul Travel, dreams, and other spiritual techniques.
•Spiritual experience and liberation in this lifetime are available to all.

Source: https://www.eckankar.org/belief.html

Thank you Vaxx. Hope this intro to the ECK Teachings is helpful in answering your question. So, the difference between both religions are obvious as their Scriptures are totally different.

Martinez19:
@vaxx, you claimed religious progress aids scientific advancement. STUPUDTHEISTS said it's not true and that even though a scientist maybe religious, his scientific discoveries are in no way dependent and facilitated by religious beliefs. He holds that irrespective of the religious stance of the scientist, religious beliefs are not involved in scientific discoveries neither do they facilitate/aid them.

STUPUDTHEISTS:
Stop quoting me please. I dread sharing the cyber space with super reta`r`ded, blithely ignorant and annoyingly stubborn nitwits like you. You had the chance for a confabulation but you blew it. Adios dumbass.

STUPUDTHEISTS:
Man, I'm so gutted. I thought the guy was different from Felix and his cronies. He said — and foolishly restated, even when shown to be wrong — that religion started mummification. Lol

I've been wasting my time on the wrong person.

STUPUDTHEISTS:
What a circus clown! Someone who thinks religion progressed and aided science by mentioning mummification is talking of enlightenment

STUPUDTHEISTS:
So these are the scientific discoveries? Lol

Be that as it may, how has these got anything to do with religion? Ancient Egyptians also made toothpaste then, was religion behind that too? It's important to note that the first cases of mummy in ancient Egypt happened naturally — they buried their dead in pit graves which are shallow, this allows for the hot dry desert sand to dry the body. Is this what you consider as religion progressing science?

Please don't say this elsewhere, abacus wasn't invented by pagans — even if that was the case — asserting that because they were pagans so paganism made them achieve that is a fallacy. Go to Google and type butterfly logic —a logical fallacy. It goes like this: A is associated with B, so A causes B; Many homosexuals have aids therefore homosexuality causes aids. This sums your argument. I won't indulge you further if you can't acknowledge the fault in your line of reasoning.