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By Femi Abbas Monologue Nights are pregnant. They give birth to wonders in the days. The paradoxical issues between days and nights are like those of the cloudy sky which is earnestly expected to...
View ArticleThe Legacy of an Action Governor
By Femi Abbas Monologue This article has to be repeated because it was not published in ‘The Message Column’, in ‘The Nation’ newspaper, on two consecutive Fridays, after the demise of Alhaji Lateef...
View ArticleThe Price of Peace 4
By Femi Abbas Monologue This a “Here is the time against which we had been warned in the guiding admonition of Ubayyi Bn Ka’b and that of Abdullah Bn Mas’ud; Here is the time about which we had been...
View ArticleIslam and Nigerian Media
By Femi Abbas Monologue From all observable angles, the Nigerian media, as championed by the South West axis of professional journalism, is the main arena to which Nigerian Muslims are regularly drawn...
View ArticleWelcoming the Guest of Guests 2
By FEMI ABBAS Monologue In a few days’ time, the world will play host to a unique but abstract guest that will perch on the shores of human life with special grandeur of accurate clues to human...
View ArticleThe Dean of Lunar Months
By Femi Abbas This is the month of Ramadan, the ‘Dean’ of all lunar months. It comes into the world once in a year. Its arrival is always with fanfare despite its invisibility. The majestic splendour...
View ArticleTARAWIH
By Femi Abbas Whenever the month of Ramadan comes around, its first port of call is Tarawih. That is the famous supererogatory Salat that entertains Muslim congregations with special hospitality in...
View ArticleMuslim Marital Homes
By Femi Abbas Monologue Today’s article is not new. It is only being republished here due to popular demand. When it was first published in this column six years ago (2015), many Muslim couples, in...
View ArticleThe rule of Sahur
By Femi Abbas Sahur is an Arabic word meaning ‘awaking the night’. Its verb root is ‘Sahira’ which means to keep a night vigil. Connotatively, Sahur, as related to Ramadan, is, statutorily, an...
View ArticleForgetfulness
By Femi Abbas For the first few days in the month of Ramadan, every year, there is tendency for some Muslims to forget that they are fasting and thus break their fasts inadvertently during the day....
View ArticleTEMPTATION
By Femi Abbas Nigeria is a home of temptations. The agents of Satan are many and ubiquitous. They are most active in the sacred month of Ramadan. You will meet them in the neighbourhood, in offices, in...
View ArticleABOUT TAFSIR
By Femi Abbas From the beginning of Ramadan, every year, Muslims congregate in various Mosques or Learning Centres where the exposition of the Qur’an (Tafsir) is rendered by learned Muslim scholars....
View ArticleThree segments of Ramadan
By Femi Abbas At the beginning of this sacred month, 11 days ago, an analysis was done in this column classifying the 30 days of Ramadan into three segments. The first segment was said to contain the...
View ArticleNeighbour’s Rights
By Femi Abbas Generally, neighbours are neighbours, Ramadan or no Ramadan. They are the people with whom one interacts closely, on a daily basis, in the same vicinity. Neighbours are co-inhabitants in...
View ArticleTravelling in Ramadan
By Femi Abbas Islam and Muslims are like Siamese twins or even like the snail and its shell. None of them can survive without the being in the company of other. There is nothing in the life of a Muslim...
View ArticleHistory of Ramadan Lecture
By FEMI ABBAS Preamble For every activity of man that yields successful or unsuccessful result, there must be a history from which others can learn a lesson. Sometimes, it is man that makes history...
View ArticleI‘TIKAF
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...
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