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By Femi Abbas The world’s greatest teacher, that ever live, Prophet Muhammad (SAW) will never cease to be a teacher of teachers even in death. It was he who first recognized communication as the...
View ArticleIndebtedness (2)
By Femi Abbas As stated in this column yesterday, the intention of rectifying material indebtedness by proxy must be in the name of the debtor and the source of funding must be pure. As for moral...
View ArticleA Summary of Facts
By Femi Abbas Monologue At no time in the life of man can the true nature of human existence more manifest than in the month of Ramadan. It is in that sacred month that Muslims reflect mostly on the...
View ArticleLetter to Ramadan
By Femi Abbas Preamble Dear Ramadan, In the name of the Almighty Allah and with His mercy and blessings, which you brought to us, recently, we salute you. For 30 days, in the month of Ramadan, you were...
View ArticleYear 1979 in Contemporary History
“No sensible human being ever restricts his itinerary to a particular habitat; to keep moving, by migrating from place to place, is the secret of human progress….”. (By an Arab Poet) By FEMI ABBAS...
View ArticleNigeria’s bloody hand in Palestine
By Femi Abbas Preamble History is naturally all ears. It also has a retinue of reminders in human memory. The Palestinian/Israeli conflict that has been ongoing for 73 years, since 1948, is a typical...
View ArticlePartitioning Nigeria?
By Femi Abbas “Man is nothing but history after his demise. Therefore, endeavour to be a veritable archive of reference from which others can learn lessons after you might have left the stage”. – Arab...
View ArticleWhat should I tell them?
By FEMI ABBAS Monologue Hardly did a onetime American President, John F. Kennedy, Know, that he was describing the Qur’an when he made the following statement in form of an assertion in the early...
View ArticleThe world without the Qur’an
By Femi Abbas ”Do you not see how Allah has set forth a parable of a meaningful ‘WORD’ like a fruitful tree which roots are firmly planted in the fertile yoke of the earth while its lofty stem...
View ArticleAnother festival in despair
By Femi Abbas Monologue Last Tuesday, July 20, 2021, was Eidul-Adha day of year 1442 AH throughout the world. The Arabic word Eid means is a festival of joy and festivities in Islam which reminds...
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