Category: Religion

Hijrah In The Life of Muslims By Engr. Bashir Lawal, Osun State Muslim Community,

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The word Hijrah is used to refer to the journey of Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622ce. The Hijrah is also identified as the epoch of the Islamic calendar, which is also known as the Hijri calendar. The newIslamic year which shall commence on the Monday 9th August will be Ist Muharam 1443AH. Allah declaring Muhammad as His Prophet (SAWS) and confirming Islam as the only religion accepted by Him were turning points to good…

Friday Sermon :1443 A.H. And The Remembrance Of The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him)’s Hijrah By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah the Lord of all creation. May Allah grant His praise, manifest his virtue and elevate the status of the noblest of the Prophets and the Seal of the Messengers, our Prophet Muhammad and protect him, the message of Islam, his family and all his companions from any harm in this life or the next. As for what follows: Dear brothers and sisters, the Islamic Hijrah calendar was established by the second rightly guided…

Hijrah 1443A.H: Muslim Media practitioners demand holiday for Islamic New Year

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For the umpteenth time, the Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has reiterated its call on both the Federal and state governments in Nigeria to declare Muharram 1, the first day of the Islamic Hijrah Calendar 1443 A.H, as a public holiday. In the Hijrah 1443 A.H Message, the National President of MMPN, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun said such a declaration would be in line with the rule of law, fairness and justice to Muslims in Nigeria. Balogun urged the Federal Government to give recognition to Muslim New Year in the…

MARRIAGE IN ISLAM By Musa Nojimudeen.

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INTRODUCTION: Islam means submission to the will of Almighty Allah. Thus, as a religion, it was given to all the Prophets from Adam (AS) to Muhammad (SAW). It was only perfected during the time of Muhammad (SAW) as stated in the Qur’an Suratu’l-Maidah,Chp 5v3: “This day have I perfected your religion for you and have completed my favour upon you and have chosen for you Islam as a religion.” So, Islam implies the true revealed religion from Allah and it entails the belief in the following; Allah (SWT), Angels, Revelations,…

Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:@farooqkperogi

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I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names that are derived from Arabic but which are barely recognizable to Arabs or other African Muslims because they have taken on the structural features of the Yoruba language. This is not unique to Yoruba, of course. As scholars of onomastics or onomatology know only too well, when proper names leave their primordial shores to other climes they, in time, are often liable to local adaptation. (Onomastics or onomatology is the…

Muslim Group urges Makinde to compensate families of lawyers denied Judges positions

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Political Awareness Group has called on Oyo State Government to immortalize three Muslim lawyers who were selected as judges of high court but died after Governor Seyi Makinde stopped their confirmation. Dr Moruf Yusuf, the Vice-Chairman of PAG, an Association of Muslim Professionals and Technocrats for Good Governance made the call in Ibadan at its Secretariat, Ososami, Ibadan at a news conference. He listed the names of the lawyers as Alhaja Fatima Badirudeen, Mr. Wasiu Adetunji Gbadegesin and Mr. AbdulRasaq Bolaji Agoro. Dr Yusuf said apart from immortalizing them for…

Afenifere, Sahara Reporters And The Attack On Our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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Tuesday, 27/07/2021 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all creation. May the salutations of Allah, His peace and blessings be upon our Prophet, his family, his companions and his true and sincere followers until the Last Day – then to proceed: Fellow Nigerians! The blasphemous statement credited to Afenifere, a Yoruba sociocultural group, published by Sahara Reporters online newspaper, comparing the plight of a political thug, Sunday Igboho to that suffered by the Prophet Muhammad (Peace…

Friday Sermon : Fear Allah, Do Not Spread Or Share Fake news! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful All Praise is due to Allah, We praise Him and we seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness from Him. We repent to Him; and we seek refuge in Him from our own evils and our own bad deeds. Anyone who is guided by Allah is indeed guided; and anyone who has been left astray, will find no one to guide him. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the Only One without any partner; and…

1442 AH/2021 Eid-Ul-Adha Sermon By Imam Murtadha Gusau Tuesday, Dhul-Hijjah 10, 1442 AH (20/07/2021)

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In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful All Praise is due to Allah, We praise Him and we seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness from Him. We repent to Him; and we seek refuge in Him from our own evils and our own bad deeds. Anyone who is guided by Allah, he is indeed guided; and anyone who has been left astray, will find no one to guide him. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the Only One without any partner; and I…

COMMUNIQUE AT THE END OF THE 20TH FOMWAN NATIONAL EDUCATION SUMMIT HELD FROM 23RD TO 25TH JUNE 2021 AT FOMWAN ADAMAWA STATE HEADQUARTERS, 17 OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (NEPA) ROAD JIMETA YOLA, ADAMAWA STATE

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PREAMBLE The 20th Annual Education Summit of the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) was hosted by the Adamawa state Chapter from 23rd to 25th June 2021.The Summit had eighty –five, (85) participants in physical attendance while about forty, (40) participants joined through Zoom.   The opening Ceremony, which took place on Thursday, 24th June was chaired by Professor Liman Tukur ably represented by Dr. Aminu Chiroma. The Ceremony had in attendance representatives of the wife of the Executive Governor of Adamawa State, the Lamido of Adamawa and the State Muslim Council. Her Royal Highness,…