Some of the deities being worshipped in Youruba land:
Eyo in Lagos
Osun Osogbo
Agemo in Ijebu
Oke Ibadan
Some acts of shirk/kufr:
Incision
Amulets of various kinds
Talismans of various kinds
Soothsaying
These are the things they want you to put first before tawheed.
I have no doubt that anyone that puts any tribe above Islam has not believed in Allah and His Messenger.
Alhamdulillah for Islam, wallah.
Kufr makes you a dim-wit. And that’s not even an insult - this is me speaking objectively.
A nincompoop whose intelligence level makes him physically incapable of separating a religion from race is who you want to ask to do basic research?
The salaf would say that if you argued with an ignorant, you would lose
1/5. Before I go let me drop this last one :
Some Muslims get surprised when they see a non Muslim speak Arabic. And some non- Muslims say the name "Allah" is the name of a demon or an idol or the devil.
Frankly this is a phenomenon that I have only experienced in Nigeria,
I’m a muslim first and last. All other things are embedded within. Whatever ISLAM negates from Yoruba culture is not permissible for me, and whatever it allows or encourages from it, i accept.
Just as my parent birthed me as a MUSLIM, May i breathe my last as a MUSLIM🤲.
This is a terrible misinformation and lies from the deepest pit of hell.
First, Bilāl wasn't the Prophet's slave, rather he was a noble companion of his.
Second, he didn't become a Muslim to be freed, rather, he was freed because he became a Muslim.
When Bilāl began to profess monotheism, his owner subjected him to torture and it was at a time while he was being tortured under the scorching sun with a rock place on this belle and having to endure the burning sun and the heat of the sun surging through the rock and through him. As if that was not enough, he was being whipped as he laid helplessly under the heavy rock. He could barely breathe but he would not be silenced. He would not stop saying Allah is One (and only worthy of worship). It was in this predicament Abubakrinis siddīq bought his freedom and thenceforth became a free man.
Third, on the issue of being the caller to prayer, Bilāl wasn't the only one. There were 4 others. Although he was the first. And when the incident of call to prayer began, it wasn't Bilāl who was directly involved but he was taught due to his unique voice.
The speaker seemed to be uninformed and looking down on the status of a Mu'adhdhin. If he knew about it, he would not be bluffing this way.
Fourth, on the fallacy of black Muslims not going to Jannah, the irony outweighs the coincidence that when the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wassallam was shown Jannah, it was the footsteps of Bilāl he was hearing almost as if he would precede the Prophet alayhis salaam in entering Jannah.
And when the prophet asked Bilāl about it, he said 'why have you preceded me in Jannah?'
Bilāl replied that he is always in a state of ablution and whenever his ablution became invalidated, he would renew it and make 2 raka'ah. The prophet confirmed to him that the act had taken him (Bilāl) to jannah.
Two things here:
1. Bilāl was a devout
2. Righteousness has nothing to do with skin colour. Supported by texts.
And to this end, saying black Muslims won't make heaven is an unfounded claim.
Lastly, I won't be saying anything on taqiyyah because enough has been said on it and despite that, they still wallow in willful ignorance.
This appears to me to be an obsession with the Muslims. Muslims do not, and have no reason to convene a congregation of unsuspecting people and lie to them about Christianity on things that can be easily known with little or no research/ web search. Nobody is forcing anyone to become a Muslim and all these need to stop.
May Allah be pleased with Bilāl and the generality of the companions.
You see this niqoby. Wallahi her husband is a very good responsible man. Only Allah knows who used sihr for him. And he lost every of his property to bet . He has a house. The house has been collected to pay his loan. Before that, no one knows where he is and the wife has to vacate the house sleeping around.
This is a family that are living comfortably and even assist people. I watched one of the videos where they were doing ruqyah for him. I cried. And now, nobody knows his whereabouts and the niqoby has been the only one catering for the three children
This is the same woman that her husband takes 100% of her responsibility and she is not even allowed to work. But, everything just turned upside down. She had to apply for a teaching job and guess how much they are paying her #18,000. Owo kini 😪😪😪.
Even in this situation, she never relent praying for him
No one knows his whereabouts. I also tried my possible best to inform the like of some brothers last year.
Dear sisters and brothers,
Anything can happen in a twinkle of an eye.
Do not joke with your Adhkar. Evil eye is real
If you can assist for Allah's sake, any amount no matter how little
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Polaris
Olawumi Kafayat Akanji
Takfīr in the Sūfī Ideology
There is a popular Arabic proverb that says: Ramatni bi-dāʾihā wa insalat “She threw her disease at me and then slipped away.” Used to describe someone who rebukes another for a defect that he himself possesses.
The Sūfīs are well known for levelling the accusation of takfīr against their principal antagonists, whom they label “Wahābīs.” By this designation they mean those Muslims who call to the pristine tawḥīd and warn against all forms of bidʿah, classically identified as the Salafīs, the Atharīs, or Ahl al-Ḥadīth wa al-Sunnah, as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī himself describes them in Maqālāt al-Islāmiyyīn (p. 290).
It is certainly true that certain fringe groups claiming affiliation with Salafiyyah have strayed from sound Islamic teaching by pronouncing unwarranted takfīr or tabdīʿ. The same phenomenon, however, exists among misguided elements within Sūfism who excommunicate fellow Muslims out of ignorance.
Moreover, mainstream Sūfī literature contains numerous statements that promote extremism and, in certain cases, justifications for violence. The following examples illustrate the point:
The renowned Algerian Sunni scholar al-Bashīr al-Ibrāhīmī (d. 1965) recorded that a Sūfī group in Algeria known as Jamʿiyyat al-Sunnah was asked: “Who is a Wahābī?” They replied: “He is the one who has disbelieved in Allāh and His Messenger!!” (Āthār al-Ibrāhīmī, 1/123).
A subtle instance of takfīr appears in the words of Shaykh Aḥmad al-Tijānī (d. 1815), founder of the widely followed Tijānī order: “Whoever embraces our group and then embraces another will be afflicted with the tribulations of this world and the hereafter and will never return to [our group] except through sincere repentance” (Kitāb al-Fatḥ al-Rabbānī fī mā yaḥtāju ilayhi al-Murīd al-Tijānī by Muḥammad bin ʿAbdillāh bin Ḥasanayn al-Tijānī, p. 47).
The Indian Sūfī sect al-Janbūriyyah asserted that its leader was the imām of the era and that whoever refused to follow him would die a disbeliever. The sect therefore sanctioned the killing of several of its opponents.
(See: Indian Sects Affiliated with Islam in the Tenth Hijri Century and Their Impact on Creed: A Study and Critique (Arabic) by Dr. Muḥammad Kabīr Aḥmad Shūdrī, p. 291).
In an explicit declaration of takfīr, Muḥammad bin Sulaymān al-Baghdādī (d. 1818/1819 CE) of the Naqshbandī order wrote: “Beware of saying that the Sūfī orders are not from the Qurʾān and Sunnah, for such a statement is kufr!”
(Kitāb al-Ḥadīqah an-Nadiyyah fī Ādāb aṭ-Ṭarīqah an-Naqshbandiyyah, p. 31).
Similarly, Muḥammad bin ʿAbdillāh al-Khānī, also of the Naqshbandī order, stated: “Whoever does not have a Shaykh (i.e., a Sūfī mentor), then his Shaykh is Shayṭān; and as long as his Shaykh is Shayṭān he remains in kufr until he adopts a [Sūfī] Shaykh”
(al-Bahjah al-Saniyyah fī Ādāb aṭ-Ṭarīqah al-ʿAliyyah al-Khālidiyyah an-Naqshbandiyyah, p. 47).
Meanwhile, while we observe extremist Sūfīs declaring takfīr upon their opponents, major Sunni scholars such as Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim demonstrated respect and fairness toward the earliest moderate Sūfīs who adhered to the Sunnah.
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah - may Allāh have mercy upon him - said: “The Sufis are at times upon the way of the Sufis of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth - and they are the best of them and their leading figures; at times upon the creed of the Sufis of the Ahl al-Kalām, so these are beneath them; and at times upon the creed of the Sufis of the philosophers, like those heretics.”
(al-Ṣafadiyyah, 1/267).
This is why we find him in his books praising and commending the earliest Sūfīs of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth, such as al-Fuḍayl, Ibrāhīm bin Adham, al-Junayd, Rābiʿah, al-Tustarī, Bishr al-Ḥāfī, and the likes of these noble figures whom the scholars praised in their own eras and thereafter. Yet he is a mortal enemy of al-Ḥallāj, Ibn ʿArabī, and their likes for their obvious heresies.
Ibn al-Qayyim likewise referred to the moderate Sūfīs in his al-Nūniyyah with the following verses:
أهل الحديث جميعهم وأئمة الـ ...
ـفتوى وأهل حقائق العرفان
All the Ahl al-Ḥadīth, together with the Imams of fatwā and the possessors of the realities of knowledge,
العارفون بربهم ونبيهم ...
ومراتب الأعمال في الرجحان
The knowers of their Lord and their Prophet, who weigh the stations of deeds with perfect balance
صوفية سنية نبوية ...
ليسوا أولي شطح ولا هذيان
Sunni, Prophetic Sufis: they are free of jargons and raving delirium.
هذا كلامهم لدينا حاضر ...
من غير ما كذب ولا كتمان
Their words are present before us, clear and unaltered, neither falsehood nor concealment therein.
فاقبل حوالة من أحال عليهم ...
هم أملياء أولو إمكان
Therefore, accept the referral of anyone who refers to them, for they are trustworthy authorities, men of true capability.
Finally, if one were to accept the charge that Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb was a takfīrī merely for reviving tawḥīd and waging jihād, then the same label would have to be applied to major African jihād leaders such as Shaykh ʿUthmān dan Fodio (d. 1817), who was himself a Qādirī Sūfī. For the relevant debates, see Sultan Bello’s Infāq al-Maysūr, which contains Shaykh Muḥammad al-Kanemi of Borno’s refutations of the Dan Fodio campaigns together with the Dan Fodio family’s replies. Shaykh ʿUthmān did not deny the takfīr he pronounced upon the Hausa rulers; he explicitly justified it in his treatise Taʿlīm al-Ikhwān bi al-Umūr allatī Kafarnā bihā Mulūk al-Sūdān (“Informing the Brothers about the Matters by Which We Declared Takfīr upon the Kings of the Sudan”). The manuscript is preserved in the University of Ibadan Library under shelf-mark 82/254 فقه.i.
I have deliberately excluded the many extravagant ecstatic utterances (shaṭḥāt al-Ṣūfiyyah) attributed to figures such as al-Jīlī, al-Basṭāmī, al-Badawī and others. Readers may consult al-Shaʿrānī’s al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā for examples that illustrate the extremes of misguidance and doctrinal deviation found within Sūfism.
May Almighty Allāh make us among the followers of the Sunnah and protect us from the innovations of the misguided. Āmīn.
Abdul Qowiyy Olalekan Badmus
ON TERRORISTS QUOTING IBN TAYMIYYAH AND OTHER SUNNI SCHOLARS LIKE SHAYKH MUḤAMMAD BIN ʿABD AL-WAHHĀB
A critic has asserted that Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and Shaykh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb cannot be regarded as moderate or upright scholars because their writings are cited by terrorist groups, such as Boko Haram, to justify acts of violence. This claim is unfounded for two principal reasons.
First, a careful examination of the lives, works, and scholarly reception of both figures demonstrates that they were moderate Sunni scholars committed to the dissemination of authentic Islamic teachings and the pursuit of peace in accordance with the Qurʾān and the Sunnah. They tried their best to emulate the path laid by the Prophet –peace and blessing upon him- as emulated and taught to the successive generations by the Companions –may Allaah be pleased with them- and the prominent scholars of Islam.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (co-author of Tafsīr al-Jalālayn) described Ibn Taymiyyah as follows:
“Ibn Taymiyyah, the Shaykh, the Imām, the ʿAllāmah, the Ḥāfiẓ, the critic, the jurist, the mujtahid, the outstanding Qurʾān exegete, Shaykh al-Islām, the foremost ascetic, a rare figure of his era, Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Muftī Shihāb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn al-Imām al-Mujtahid Shaykh al-Islām Majd al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Ḥarrānī. One of the prominent scholars, he was born in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 661 AH. He studied under Ibn Abī al-Yusr, Ibn al-Dāʾim, and several others. He devoted himself to Ḥadīth, verifying and selecting narrations; he excelled in the knowledge of narrators, the defects of Ḥadīth, its comprehension, and the various sciences of Islam, including theology. He was among the oceans of knowledge, counted among the most intelligent and ascetic scholars. He authored three hundred volumes and was subjected to trials and harm on multiple occasions. He died on the 20th of Dhū al-Qaʿdah 728 AH.”
(���abaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ, pp. 516–517)
Similarly, the renowned Indian scholar ʿAllāmah Muḥammad Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān stated regarding Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb:
“Many scholars have attributed disbelief and misguidance to Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb either because they are unaware of his true biography or due to intolerance and prejudice. In reality, they possess no evidence from the Qurʾān or Sunnah to support such attributions.”
(Ithāf al-Nubalāʾ al-Muttaqīn)
In the same work, while refuting the allegations made by the Syrian Ḥanafī jurist Ibn ʿĀbidīn, he further clarified:
“It has become clear from what we have mentioned that the claims attributed by Ibn ʿĀbidīn to the Shaykh, that he declared all his opponents to be disbelievers and restricted Islām to his own school of thought, are invalid. It is also evident that the Shaykh’s beliefs in their entirety conform to those of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah, and that all the reprehensible ideas and invalid creeds ascribed to him are nothing but absolute falsehoods and fabrications.”
These assessments by objective and authoritative critics confirm that the scholarly orientations of both figures are far removed from any foundation for extremism or terrorism.
Second, the claim fails even on logical grounds. If a scholar is to be discredited solely because terrorists quote him, without verifying the accuracy or contextual application of those quotations, then consistency demands the same treatment for the primary sources of Islām itself. Terrorist groups routinely cite Qurʾānic verses and authentic ḥadīths to support their actions. No responsible scholar would therefore propose expunging those verses or ḥadīths from the Islamic corpus.
Moreover, the terrorists’ selective citations from Ibn Taymiyyah and other Sunni scholars almost invariably concern topics such as jihād, the Islamic state, and political theory, subjects that are addressed directly and extensively in the Qurʾān and Sunnah. A mischievous interpreter could equally misuse the following verses (among many others) by lifting them from their historical and legal contexts:
Allah, the Most High, says:
﴿فَقَاتِلُوا أَئِمَّةَ الْكُفْرِ ۙ إِنَّهُمْ لَا أَيْمَانَ لَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَنتَهُونَ﴾
(At-Tawbah 9:12)
“Then fight the leaders of disbelief, verily their oaths are nothing, so that they may desist.”
And:
﴿فَإِذَا انسَلَخَ الْأَشْهُرُ الْحُرُمُ فَاقْتُلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَيْثُ وَجَدتُّمُوهُمْ وَخُذُوهُمْ وَاحْصُرُوهُمْ وَاقْعُدُوا لَهُمْ كُلَّ مَرْصَدٍ ۚ فَإِن تَابُوا وَأَقَامُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَوُا الزَّكَاةَ فَخَلُّوا سَبِيلَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ﴾
(At-Tawbah 9:5)
“But when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush. But if they repent, establish prayer, and give zakāh, then leave their way free. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.”
A learned Muslim conversant with the principles of tafsīr, asbāb al-nuzūl, and fiqh understands that these verses were revealed in specific historical contexts and are subject to strict legal conditions and limitations. The same principle applies to scholarly opinions: any text can be distorted by those intent on mischief. As the Yoruba proverb aptly observes: “Enikeni ti o ba fee je ogun k’ogun itan k’itan ni yoo maa pa” , meaning: “Whoever wishes to claim an undeserved legacy will always fabricate a story to support it.”
It is therefore methodologically unsound and academically irresponsible to condemn a scholar merely because his words are misused by extremists. The proper scholarly approach is to examine the quotation’s authenticity, its original context, and its consistency with the scholar’s broader corpus, independent of the agenda of any propagandist.
In conclusion, Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and Shaykh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb remain among the moderate and upright scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah. Their works are not the bedrock of terrorism or any form of evil; rather, they represent a sincere effort to revive and clarify the pristine teachings of Islam. Any assertion to the contrary rests on selective reading, historical prejudice, or outright fabrication.
Abdul Qowiyy Olalekan Badmus