Nigeria is a country where atrocities can unfold for months without becoming a national conversation. Millions in Lagos and Kano donโt even know this are happening. Thatโs how numb and disconnected weโve become.
It seems many of you donโt know what is at stake here. Itโs not a matter of waiting for two years, the damage has started already and itโs only a matter of time that this bridge collapses on people.
Those concrete mass is as good as nothing if there is no steel to support it against bending forces. Yet, heavy duty vehicle are plying the bridge?
These people are close to terrorists in what they have done.
That is why we cannot say God does not love Nigeria. There is no way people will behave like this and expect safety or progress. Unfortunate ๐
This is exactly what Iโve been saying.
The game is clear: keep people poor, insecure, and dependentโฆ then show up with rice and call it โdividends of democracyโ just to harvest votes.
Thatโs why some people are uncomfortable with Pantami for Gombe. An educated and empowered population doesnโt clap for handouts. They ask questions. They demand jobs, skills, infrastructure, and real accountability.
Pantami is talking about investing in people education, modern skills, opportunities that can take young people from $0 to global careers.
You donโt liberate anyone by giving them rice forever. You liberate them when they no longer need the rice.
Ran into this woman at the pharmacy and she was like
โI havenโt seen you in years, how is your mom!!!โ
I instinctively replied โOh sheโs fineโ *reflex*
And then it hit me
Like oh shitttt๐๐๐
Ibn Taymiyah ุฑูุญูู ููู ุงููู said:
As for sins, a person should not do them, and if he does them, then he must repent from them.ย Whoever repents and feels remorse resembles his father Adam. But whoever persists and makes excuses resembles his enemy Iblis.
[Majmu' al-Fatawa 2/109]
Imฤm ibn al-Jawzi ุฑุญู ู ุงููู was asked:
โIs it better for me to make โTasbeehโ (to glorify Allฤh) or to make โIstighfฤrโ (seek Allฤh's forgiveness)?โ
He replied: โThe dirty garment is more in need of soap than perfume.โ
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Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.
Ronaldo being a better goalscorer than Messi isnโt because heโs scored more goals, or the fact heโs scored 500+ goals since turning 30. Itโs a fact. Being the better goalscorer is about far more than conversion rate. Lukaku will probably retire with more goals than Aguero and we all know who the better goalscorer is.
First look at sheer variety and repeatability of his goals. Heโs arguably the most complete finisher football has ever seen.
He has scored with both feet at an elite level, is arguably the greatest header of the ball the game has seen, has scored countless tap-ins through elite movement, long-range screamers, volleys, bicycle kicks, first-time finishes, free kicks, penalties, near-post finishes, far-post finishes, and goals in almost every conceivable situation.
Heโs top 10 in whatever type of goals youโre bringing, Headers, Right Leg, Free kicks, Penalties. He has over 150 goals from left leg alone, thatโs more than about 50% of footballers total career goals.
He didnโt rely on one type of chance. He adapted his game throughout his career and remained one of the deadliest finishers in every phase of it. As his pace declined, his anticipation, positioning, timing of runs, and ability to attack space became even more refined.
Then thereโs adaptability. He has won league Golden Boots in England, Spain and Italy. He is the UEFA Champions League all-time top scorer, the competitionโs all-time knockout stage top scorer, and has won the Champions League Golden Boot a record seven times. He is international footballโs all-time leading goalscorer and the first player in history to score 900 official career goals. Different leagues. Different teammates. Different managers. Different systems. Same outcome: goals.
Being a great goalscorer isnโt just about the number beside your name. Itโs about how consistently you convert different types of chances, how many ways you can beat a goalkeeper, and how sustainable your scoring is across different leagues, systems, managers, and stages of your career.
You donโt see any Ronaldo fan arguing Ronaldo is a better creator despite being top 10 of most assist in history.
But when the conversation is purely about goalscoring, Ronaldo has built a body of work that is very difficult to match.
One point we neglect about Islam is the knowledge of Tawhid. Before practicing Islam, we need to fully understand who Allah is and his great attributes.
Excuse me sir, what you said has zero place in knowledge. I once asked here if you are you a Muslim or not, so as to know where many of your strange views come from, people said you are.
If anything would be regarded as truth about Adam and Eve, it has to be from no other source than the one who created them. Painfully, you didn't cite any source.
Is what he said true?
First of all, where did this strange idea come from? I say this because this "euphemism for sex" idea has no foundation in either Islamic or Judeo-Christian theology.
This thought process was cooked up by ancient Gnostic cults and later amplified by sects, such as the Manichaeans. These ancient groups believed the physical world, the human body, and the act of procreation were inherently evil and dirty.
Because they had a theological hatred for human intimacy, they twisted the creation story. They decided the original sin could not be about eating a literal fruit, so they reimagined it as sexual intercourse.
They turned the tree and the fruit into metaphors to fit their own skewed hatred for the body. Today, people pick up this corrupted Gnostic idea and repeat it online thinking it makes them sound deep and enlightened.
As a Muslim that you are, you should know that we do not play/relate these esoteric Batiniyya games with clear revelation. The Almighty called it a tree. The Arabic word used is Shajarah. He told them do not approach this tree. When they slipped, the Quran clearly says they ate from it.
If we test his euphemism theory against the Quranic timeline, the whole logic crashes. The Quran states that it was only after they ate from the tree that their nakedness became visible to them. That was when they started hastily covering themselves with the leaves of Paradise.
Think about the sequence of events here. If the fruit was a euphemism for sexual intimacy, how could they only realize they were naked after the act was completed? Only the true believers will reason about this.
Also, Islam does not view lawful intimacy as a sin. Adam and Hawa were created to eventually populate the earth. There is no theological reason to hide a natural act behind a metaphorical fruit.
Even if you read the Bible, the chronological assertions are well documented. If you read the Book of Genesis, it calls it the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The original Hebrew text uses the word peri, which translates to a literal, physical fruit. Early Jewish scholars debated if it was a fig, a stalk of wheat, a pomegranate, or a grape, but they all firmly agreed it was a physical crop meant for consumption. None of the arguments were based on euphemisms.
Even more damaging to your theory is the Biblical timeline itself. In the very first chapter of Genesis, before the fall even happens, God commands them to "be fruitful and multiply." Intimacy was already blessed and commanded by God in the Biblical text.
It was not the forbidden crime. The crime was a literal act of disobedience through eating what was forbidden.
We need to be very careful with assuming borrowed or corrupted knowledge is true knowledge. Like I said earlier, what you said has no place in true knowledge. Your opinion is that from the transgressors and people of mischief.
Whether you are looking at it through an Islamic lens, Jewish or a Biblical one, it was a physical tree and a physical act of eating. Any other interpretation is a corrupt one.
Allah knows best.
To understand who a child gets their intelligence from, we have to go back to a moment that changed the way we look at biology and faith. It starts with an encounter between the Prophet (peace be upon him) and a Jewish scholar who came to test his knowledge.
When this scholar asked about why a child resembles one parent and not the other, the Prophet (peace be upon him) gave an answer that was centuries ahead of its time. He said:
ุฃูู ููุง ุงููููููุฏู: ููุฅูุฐูุง ุณูุจููู ู ูุงุกู ุงูุฑููุฌููู ู ูุงุกู ุงููู ูุฑูุฃูุฉู ููุฒูุนู ุฅููููููู ุงููููููุฏูุ ููุฅูุฐูุง ุณูุจููู ู ูุงุกู ุงููู ูุฑูุฃูุฉู ู ูุงุกู ุงูุฑููุฌููู ููุฒูุนู ุฅูููููููุง ุงููููููุฏ
"As for the child: if the manโs fluid precedes the womanโs fluid, the child resembles him. And if the womanโs fluid precedes the manโs fluid, the child resembles her."
This concept of โsabaqโ (preceding or outstripping) is the key. It describes a biological race where one parentโs essence claims the territory of the child's identity. This is not about who finishes first in a physical sense, but about which parent's traits dominate the final outcome.
For a long time, the world believed in a theory called "blending inheritance." People thought traits mixed like two colors of paint. They believed a child was a blurry average of their parents. It was Gregor Mendel who eventually proved this wrong with his experiments. He showed that traits do not merge. Instead, they remain distinct and compete for dominance.
When Mendel discovered dominant and recessive genes, he was confirming the divinity of the Prophetโs words. The "precedence" mentioned in the Hadith is the same thing as "dominance" in genetics.
One parentโs information takes the lead and is expressed, while the other might stay hidden. This shows that the Prophet (peace be upon him) was describing the hierarchy of our biological traits long before we had a name for them. It is a powerful proof that his knowledge was coming from the source of life itself.
Ibn al-Qayyim took this even further in his book Tuhfat al-Mawdud. He realized that this "resemblance" was a total package. It was not limited to the shape of a nose or the color of skin. He understood that whichever parentโs essence prevails, it sets the foundation for the childโs internal nature. This includes their temperament, their character, and their sharpness of mind.
He also explained that the child pulls from the dominant side. This is why our tradition places so much weight on the lineage of the mother. There is a deep belief that while the father provides the social identity and the drive, the mother provides the cognitive soil.
There is a Hadith where the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
ุชูุฎููููุฑููุง ููููุทูููููู ูุ ููุฅูููู ุงููุนูุฑููู ุฏูุณููุงุณู
"Choose carefully for your seed, for the vein is a silent traveler"
This Hadith is a direct call for us to look at the intellect in the family line. Those "crawling veins" of intelligence can stay hidden for a generation and then prevail when the time is right.
The ultimate truth is that we are a collection of these hidden roots. Intelligence is a gift from Allah, but the parents are the channels.
A child is the result of a biological and spiritual struggle where one lineage's traits win the day. The mother is the first school because her mental depth is the primary environment that activates these traits.
Our brilliance is often a debt we owe to the women who carried these silent strengths until they found a place to bloom in us.
Allah knows best.