Islam and global warming
In Retrospect This article is not new. It was first published in this column in March 2013 as a reaction to a fortuitous incident that required a fortuitous reaction. Sometime early in January 2010, a...
View ArticleArisekola-Alao’s twin brother
Very few people knew that the late Aare Abdul Azeez Arisekola-Alao had a twin brother. Those who knew that fact either took it for granted or did not duly acknowledge it. Like most human beings, the...
View ArticleAn orphan’s legacy
Preamble This is a season which some Muslims celebrate as a festival. They call it Eidul Mawlid (meaning festival of birth). Their intention is to celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). This,...
View ArticleHijab: Muslims against Muslims
Preamble Controversy is a Nigerian. It occupies a delicate but vintage position in the hearts of most citizens and revolves incessantly around trivial matters often to the detriment of serious and...
View ArticleThe Message and the messenger
Prologue The title of this article is quite symbolic. Islam is the most worthy message that requires a worthy messenger to propagate. And the messenger in this case is any worthy Muslim who is supposed...
View ArticleRe – Hijab: Muslims against Muslims
Preamble An article entitled ‘Hijab: “Muslims against Muslims” which appeared in this column penultimate Friday drew an unprecedented array of reactions from readers. A follow up to that article last...
View ArticleAhmadu Bello’s Christmas message
Preamble This article was scheduled for Friday, January 15, 2016 to coincide with the 50th year remembrance of Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello’s assassination in Nigeria’s first military coup d’etat. However,...
View ArticleMUSWEN’s visit to MARKAZ
Preamble It couldn’t have been an idle talk when Prophet Muhammad (SAW) expressed an axiom of all ages and generations. After all, the Almighty Allah had told us in Qur’an 53 verse 3 that this greatest...
View ArticleWhere are the Muslims?
Preamble This article is not new. It was first published in this column in 2008. Its repetition here is in response to demands made by many readers who heard of it but were never privileged to read it....
View ArticleMUSWEN’s Foundation for Ibadan quintuplets
Is it they (human beings) who would share out the mercy of Allah (to others)? It is We (Allah) who share the possession of those bounties among them as their means of livelihood in this temporal world....
View ArticleA premier’s limit of sanity
There are good men in every land; the tree of life has many branches and roots; let not the topmost twig presume to think that it alone has sprung from the mother earth; we did not choose our races by...
View ArticleThe Message @ 10
Prologue Time flies. It was like a dream ten years ago when this column named ‘The Message’ debut in the great newspaper called The Nation. By then, this columnist (being a journalist) had written...
View ArticleThe Sultan: A Triple Heritage
History is for human self-knowledge. The only clue to know what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus enables us to know what man...
View Article62 years ago
Do you not see how Allah sets forth a parable of Pleasant Word like a splendid tree which roots are firmly entrenched in the belly of the earth while its branches sprout gorgeously into the firmament...
View ArticleKudos to Oyo State but…
Whoever amongst you sees something wrong should endeavour to correct it with his hand (by removing it). If he is incapable of correcting it with his hand, let him correct it with his tongue (by...
View ArticleMUSWEN’s Second General Assembly
Hold fast the cord of Allah and do not be disunited. And remember the Mercy of Allah upon you when you became adversaries to one another and Allah saved you from falling into the quagmire of Hell by...
View ArticleAnatomy of corruption in Nigeria
Preamble The title of today’s article is not a coinage of this columnist. It is rather the title of a book jointly written by 14 likeminded world class Nigerian lawyers of the Senior Advocate of...
View ArticleMUSWEN’s Second General Assembly
And hold fast to the cord of Allah and do not be disunited. And remember the Mercy of Allah upon you when you became adversaries to one another and Allah saved you from falling into the quagmire of...
View ArticleGuest of integrity
Guests, everywhere in the world, are of different types. Some are of honour and treated with integrity because of their acknowledged dignity. Some are bereft of honour but merely tolerated for their...
View ArticleMirror of Life
Preamble Here is the month in which the revelation of the Qur’an began. The revelation of the sacred Book in this sacred month called Ramadan is quite symbolic as it confers the entire habitat of human...
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