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[Saddam Bello🇳🇬 @Saddam_Bello]

Having a purpose in life cannot be overemphasized, because a purposeful life is one of the greatest motivation one needs in this Dunya.

One needs to figure his/her purpose in life and what he/she wants to achieve. 1/4

[Saddam Bello🇳🇬 @Saddam_Bello]

4/ Ultimately, no one enters Jannah merely because of who they are related to. A person must have faith and strive to obey Allah to the best of their ability, while knowing that entry into Jannah is ultimately by Allah’s mercy.

May Allah have mercy on us, forgive our sins, Amin

[Saddam Bello🇳🇬 @Saddam_Bello]

1/ In my opinion, we are missing the main lesson regarding the hadith concerning the fate of the Prophet’s ﷺ parents. If what is mentioned in the hadith is what Allah has decreed for them, then what about you and me, who have no familial relationship with him?

[Saddam Bello🇳🇬 @Saddam_Bello]

3/ his Sunnah

Instead of being angry at the hadith or trying to deny it simply because we find its meaning difficult we should take it as a serious warning. It should make us hasten toward good deeds, strengthen our faith, repent from our sins, and constantly seek Allah’s mercy.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The hyperpower geography argument is real, but incomplete.

Yes, American geography is exceptional. Two oceans. No great-power neighbors. Navigable river systems feeding into the world's best natural harbor network. Arable land on a continental scale.

Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote the definitive analysis of this in 1890. The Americans read it and built a navy. The argument is solid.

But geography explains American capacity.

It does not explain American choices.

Geography did not decide to overthrow Mossadegh in Iran in 1953.

Geography did not assassinate Lumumba in the Congo in 1961.

Geography did not drop more bombs on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia than fell in all of World War II.

Geography did not decide to invade Iraq in 2003 based on intelligence that senior officials knew to be false, killing hundreds of thousands of people and generating the regional instability that produced ISIS.

These were choices.

Made by specific people.

In specific rooms.

For specific reasons that can be examined, analyzed, and judged.

Your geographic determinism converts choices into inevitabilities after the fact, which is extremely convenient for the people who made the choices.

Realism as a framework is most useful to those whose choices it naturalizes.

You should notice who benefits from the framing before you adopt it.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

There is nothing to be confused about here. What modern DNA testing is just confirming now is what the Prophet (peace be upon him) has said over 1400 years ago.

A Bedouin man once went to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) losing his mind with suspicion. He and his wife were regular Arabs, but she gave birth to a dark-skinned boy.

Instead of answering directly, the Prophet asked the man about his camels. The man said his camels were red. The Prophet asked if there were any grey camels born in that red herd. The man said yes, sometimes a grey one appears.

When the Prophet asked where that grey color came from, the man reasoned that a hidden trait from a past ancestor must have been drawn out. The Prophet then told the man the very same thing that happened to his boy.

A hidden ancestor has been pulled out. For the man it is dark, for these young kids, it is white.

The Prophet summarized this deep reality by saying,:

فإن العرق دساس
The vein pulls secretly.

Scientifically, we call this the power of recessive genes. A family bloodline is like a deep hidden vault. A light-skinned ancestor from five or six generations back can leave a genetic footprint that stays completely quiet.

The parents might be very dark, and the grandparents might be very dark. But the moment two people who both carry that hidden, dormant gene come together and have a child, the vault opens. Such quiet trait suddenly wakes up and shows up loud and clear.

Because of this hidden pull, people who focus only on skin color miss the bigger picture. This is why you are confused. This is why the parents are confused.

It’s not even only you. Even the great companion Zaid ibn Harith was confused about the lineage of his son Usama. It took a skilled physiognomist, someone who reads bone structure, to quiet the noise.

So, Kweku did a very sensible thing by getting a DNA test to ease his mind. The test just proved what the science of recessive genes and ancient Prophetic wisdom have always told us. The bloodline is fully intact, regardless of the color it decided to wear this time.

Allah knows best.

[National Hajj Commission of Nigeria @nigeriahajjcom]

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[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

Of Ade, Babs and Merchants of Defeatism

In 1991, Shell put up a job advert in newspapers. A certain Babs, doing teaching job in Ilorin, who had come to Lagos to job hunt, and had been walking round Marina (the VI of the time) dropping his CVs in all places, saw the advert at the motor park on his way back to Ilorin.

He got the newspaper and took it with him to Ilorin. He told his friend, Ade, about it. Ade told him to not apply because such jobs were not for ordinary people like them. He felt he lost nothing by applying, so he packaged his CV and application letter and posted to Shell office.

He was invited for first stage in PH. Ade told him to not waste transport money. He went. Second stage, he went again. Ade kept laughing at the poor teacher son of a teacher and farmer, a graduate of Unilorin.

Until Babs saw his offer at Ilorin post office. Ade could not believe it.

Well, Babs went ahead to have a stellar career in Shell, rising to become CEO of NLNG (on secondment from Shell, one of the owners of NLNG), a top 3 staff of Shell Nigeria, and later global VP of Shell at the HQ in Hague, Netherlands, managing upstream operations in 44 countries, before he retired a few years ago.

What if he had listened to Ade in 1991?

Before you say that can only happen in 1991, every recruitment cycle of Shell, NNPC and NLNG in the past 10 years that I have played some part in preparing candidates for, including in this 2026, I see many people with no connection get in.

You have a choice between listening to the Ades of 2026 or being the Babs.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Thank God their clothes alone won’t determine their religion again. As we have them in Mosques, we now have them in churches too.

[𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚, 𝐏𝐡.𝐃. @Realoilsheikh]

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[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

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[𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚, 𝐏𝐡.𝐃. @Realoilsheikh]

A Bitter Reality We Must Confront

This is a painful reality that many of us—especially Hausa Muslims—must be willing to discuss honestly.

As Sheikh Lawan Abubakar Triumph (may Allah preserve and protect him) rightly pointed out, the culture of begging that has become associated with the Almajiri system is not an Islamic teaching. It is a social problem that has, unfortunately, become deeply entrenched in parts of Northern Nigeria.

The Sheikh observed that even in countries poorer than Nigeria, such as Sudan, Benin Republic, and Ghana, it is not uncommon to find some of our own people begging on the streets. Able-bodied men, women, and even children have come to treat begging as a means of livelihood. This is contrary to the teachings of Islam, which honour work, dignity, and self-reliance.

It is also important to reject the false claim that today’s begging culture is synonymous with the noble Islamic concept of Al-Muhajir (the emigrant for the sake of Allah). They are not the same. Using religion to justify or institutionalize street begging is both historically and religiously inaccurate.

A painful sight in many of our cities is seeing elderly women, before sunrise, taking young children to street corners—not to earn an honest living, but to beg. In contrast, many other elderly women, majority of other ethnicities, leave their homes at the same hour to sell bread, fry akara, hawk vegetables, or engage in other lawful work. They are teaching their grandchildren that dignity comes through effort, not dependence on handouts.

This is not about ethnicity. Every community has its strengths and its weaknesses. But where begging becomes normalized & even defended in the name of culture or religion, society must pause and ask hard questions.

Islam encourages productive work, condemns habitual begging without genuine necessity, and commands Muslims to preserve their honour. We should therefore invest in genuine Qur’anic education, vocational skills, entrepreneurship, and social support for the truly needy—not perpetuate a system that traps generations in dependency.

If we truly love our people, we must have the courage to acknowledge this problem and work together to solve it.

Reforming the Almajiri system, abolishing street begging, protecting children, empowering families, and restoring the dignity of labour are responsibilities we all share.

May Allah guide us to what is right, grant dignity to our people through lawful means, and protect our children from every path that leads to dependence and humiliation. Āmīn.

[𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚, 𝐏𝐡.𝐃. @Realoilsheikh]

No father with grown daughters, or even a brother with many sisters, or any woman who hopes to marry one day, would find it acceptable or reasonable to hear a fatwa suggesting that a woman can be entered into a temporary marriage while the man knows from the outset that he intends to leave after a fixed period, even as she genuinely believes she is entering a lifelong union with the man she loves.

Such an arrangement is the height of deception and injustice; qualities that Islam does not endorse. Marriage in Islam is founded on honesty, trust, commitment, & mutual rights and responsibilities, not concealment or exploitation.

If a man can afford to travel abroad for business, then he can also afford to take his wife with him. If circumstances prevent her from traveling; perhaps because she must remain home to care for their children, and he genuinely believes he needs companionship during extended trips, then he has lawful alternatives within Islam, such as marrying a second wife openly and permanently, with all the rights and responsibilities that such a marriage entails.

Islam is a religion of justice, fairness, and dignity for both men and women. Any interpretation or practice that undermines these principles deserves careful scrutiny.

[𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚, 𝐏𝐡.𝐃. @Realoilsheikh]

𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬

This is a very beneficial reminder from Sheikh Suleiman Al-Ruhayli (حفظه الله تعالى), especially for those of us who travel frequently by air.

The Sheikh explained that for a traveler, the prayer times are effectively grouped into three periods, because Allah has permitted combining certain prayers:

- Fajr (Subh) remains in its own time.
- Dhuhr and Asr share one combined time, beginning when Dhuhr enters and ending when Asr expires.
- Maghrib and Isha share one combined time, beginning when Maghrib enters and ending when Isha expires.

Practical application:

If you board a flight before Dhuhr and know that your flight will land before the time of Asr ends, you do not need to pray on the aircraft. Wait until you land, then pray Dhuhr and Asr together, since their combined time has not yet expired.

However, if your flight will not land until after the time of Asr has completely ended (for example, after Maghrib has entered), then the combined time for Dhuhr and Asr will have expired. In that case, you should pray on board the aircraft.

Likewise, if you travel after Asr and know you will not land until after the time of Isha has expired, you should pray Maghrib and Isha during the flight.

If you need to pray on board:

- Pray standing if you are able.
- If you cannot stand, pray while seated.
- Face the Qiblah if it is possible.
- If you cannot determine or face the Qiblah, then pray in whatever direction you are able.

This is in accordance with the statement of Allah:

"𝐒𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞." (��𝐮𝐫,𝐚𝐧 𝟔𝟒:𝟏𝟔).

This concession is one of the mercies Allah has granted to travelers. May Allah grant us understanding of His religion and enable us to worship Him correctly wherever we are. آمين.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

This lady is an ignorant person. Thank God I saw it because I was about going to bed.

This entire script is not her original thought. It is entirely copy-pasted from the modern progressive and Quranist movements. These ideologies gained a lot of ground during the colonial era. Don’t be surprised that she has leaders she is following their footsteps. The likes of Amina Wadud and Fatima Mernissi.

These two misguided women were the ones who popularized this specific argument that the head-covering is just an old Arab cultural tradition.

Their primary goal has always been to dilute Islamic rulings to make them acceptable to Western secular standards. They operate by rejecting the Sunnah, by ignoring classical Arabic dictionaries, and reinterpreting the Quran using modern English logic. This was the way of Rashad Khalifa who later claimed prophethood. It is a very deceptive methodology.

Now, let’s get to the root of her ignorance and misguidance.

First of all, She spent half the video arguing that the word "Hijab" in the Quran means a wall or a barrier. Every basic student of knowledge knows this. The early generations knew this.

The Quran had a specific word usage for clothing of a Muslim woman. The Quran uses Khimar and Jilbab to describe the clothing of a Muslim woman.

But over time, the Ummah adopted "Hijab" as an umbrella term for modesty and the covering. This is the label name we adopted. You would notice that all she did was to attack the label (name). What about the actual ruling?

Any serious student of knowledge knows the binding fiqhi principle that destroys her entire argument:

العبرة بالحقائق والمعاني لا بالألفاظ والمباني
"Consideration is given to the realities and meanings, not to the words and structures."

Whether we call it Hijab, Khimar, or Jilbab today, the legal ruling of covering the head and body remains the same. Therefore, attacking a label to dodge a divine command is a cheap distraction to make it seem like she discovered a hidden secret. She only exposed her ignorance.

Guess what she did next? She wanted to manipulate the term “Khimar”

Funnily, this is where her lack of Arabic comprehension is exposed. She quoted Surah An-Nur verse 31, where Allah commands believing women to draw their Khumur over their chests. Khumur is the plural of Khimar.

Her argument is that women in Jahiliyyah already wore headcovers to protect themselves from the heat, so the Quranic command was only to cover the chest. She claims covering the hair was just cultural.

Now, let us look at the Arabic root. The root word for Khimar is Kha-Meem-Ra. In classical Arabic, it means to conceal or cover. It is the very same root used for Khamr, which means intoxicants, because alcohol covers the intellect. In the Arabic lexicon, a Khimar is “exclusively” a covering for the head.

The women before Islam wore the Khimar on their heads but they would throw the ends behind their backs. This left their ears, necks, and upper chests completely exposed. The Quran commanded them to take that very head-cover and pull it forward over their chests. The mandate to cover the hair is built right into the word itself.

The most glaring error in her video is that she completely bypassed the Sunnah. You cannot interpret the Quran while throwing away the understanding of the Prophet who received it and the companions who lived it. It is not possible. Maybe that’s why she is misguided.

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[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Someone tagged me to what Dr. Oni said on the Fatwa of Shaykh Qamarudeen Yunus as seen in this video. He already blocked me unprovoked long ago so I don’t get to see his post unless I am tagged to it.

Just like I said last week, Dr Oni is used to stringing words together without saying anything. And he is always on a default mode to attack Sunni scholars. Only the Almighty knows why he does that because it has become unbecoming of him.

But let’s get to the crux of his claims.

First of all, Shaykh Qamarudeen was not making an emotional sweeping claim. If you listen to the Yoruba in the video very well, he made a very precise fiqhi distinction.

He stated that a Muslim bricklayer can build a personal house for a Christian or a Pastor. That is halal business. But you cannot lay the foundation for a church. The reason is that you are now building a structure dedicated to what contradicts Tawhid.

In Dr. Oni’s reply, he cited Surah Al-Hajj verse 40 to claim churches have a legitimate purpose.

However, he completely missed the context. Classical Mufassirun such as Ibn Kathir and Al-Qurtubi gave two clear reasons for this verse.

Number one is that these places were legitimate places of worship in their own time before Prophet Muhammad's message came to finalize things.

Number two is that under an Islamic state, the old existing buildings are protected from unjust destruction under the Dhimmi contract.

Therefore, a state that is protecting an old building is very different from an individual Muslim actively laying the blocks for a new church today. That correlation does not apply.

Then he claimed that a Muslim architect or mason is doing lawful work and not aiding in sin. This is a very weak understanding of the religion. The core of Islam is Monotheism. A church is a venue built for Trinity.

Most classical scholars rule that designing or building such specific venue falls directly under aiding in sin. No doubt about this in sound knowledge.

Let us bring the Mutun (legal textbooks) to the table so we know who is going against knowledge.

In the Hanbali school, if you read Al-Mughni by Ibn Qudamah, he explicitly ruled that hiring a Muslim to build a church is forbidden and the contract is invalid. In the Shafi'i school, if you go to Mughni al-Muhtaj, Al-Shirbini ruled it is forbidden because it is a place built for disbelief.

It is even more interesting because Dr Oni claims to follow the Maliki school. Yet, the Maliki school is very strict on this. If you check Hashiyat al-Dasuqi, they completely block a Muslim from entering a contract to build a church or anything that supports the symbols of other religions.

When I started reading his post, I thought maybe he wanted to echo Imam Abu Haneefah. Because in one specific narration, Imam Abu Haneefah allowed manual labor for a Muslim on a church.

But the truth is, even his own top students, Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani, completely rejected this. You will find their strict disagreement recorded clearly in major Hanafi books such as Al-Mabsut by Imam al-Sarakhsi and Radd al-Muhtar by Ibn Abidin. They sided with the majority that such work is detested and sinful.

To wrap this up, arguing that Muslims worked on churches during the Ottoman or Abbasid empires is a big logical fallacy. History is full of Muslims drinking wine and engaging in interest-based banking during those same empires. Does that make them halal?

The wrongs they committed do not change the Shariah. The legal consensus of the greatest minds in Islamic history is clear. We should respect our scholars and stop revising the deen because we want to look modern.

Allah knows best.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Walaikum Salam my sister. I am happy you asked for clarification.

For we to properly understand this, we have to look at the world the way it was, not the way it is today. Because, if we judge ancient realities using our modern definitions, we will miss the profound fairness Islam introduced.

Let me make you understand…

Before Islam, the global standard for prisoners of war was brutal. If you look at the Roman or Persian empires, surviving women from conquered nations were treated as literal objects. I mean they were treated as worthless objects.

In Rome for instance, captives were thrown into mass brothels, worked to death, or sold for entertainment. Women were spoils of war with zero legal protection or human dignity. This was the world Islam was born into.

If we understand the above, it’s clear that Islam did not invent this system. It met it on ground. The world was brutal.

And instead of joining them, It immediately moved to dismantle its brutality. Instead of throwing war captives into prisons or camps where they would face starvation and mass abuse, Islamic law mandated integration.

This integration is rooted in the concept known as Huquq al-Mamluk (the rights of dependents). The Prophet (peace be upon him) explicitly called them your brothers and mandated a strict rule.

What is the rule? That they must be fed the food the family eats and clothed with the clothes the family wears.

After this, the next problem Islam solved for them is the protection of their dignity. The Quran brought a revolutionary command in Surah An-Nur, verse 33, when it stated:

وَلَا تُ��ْرِهُوا فَتَيَاتِكُمْ عَلَى الْبِغَاءِ إِنْ أَرَدْنَ تَحَصُّنًا لِّتَبْتَغُوا عَرَضَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا
"And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire chastity, to seek the temporary interests of worldly life."

In plain words, this verse destroyed the ancient sex trade. Masters used to force captive women to sleep with men to make money for the household. Islam outlawed this completely.

Instead, it restricted intimacy solely to the head of the household. Mind you, this was not about exploiting them. It was about creating a strict boundary of financial responsibility, exclusivity, and protection. It stopped them from being passed around and abused by the masses.

The most beautiful part of this framework is how it was designed to phase out naturally. Islam created a system of Ummul-walad.

What does this mean? It is a one way street to freedom. If a captive woman bore a child for the master, her status is upgraded instantly. She will be known as the Mother of the Child (Ummul-walad).

From that moment, she could never be sold or given away. And the moment the master passed away, she became a completely free woman.

Mind you, her child won’t be a slave. The child is born completely free, and will carry the same legitimate rights and inheritance as a child born to a free wife. There was zero discrimination.

When you look at it analytically, Islam took a dark reality of ancient warfare and imposed a system of care, rights, and gradual freedom that the rest of the world took centuries to even think about.

Allah knows best.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

This is one of the extreme, out of context statements from anti-Islam forums that people spread. In the last 48 hrs, I have seen enough.

On the first claim about leading a Muslim away, there is one thing people don’t understand. There is a big difference between an Islamic state (Saudi Arabia) and a secular state (Nigeria).

In an Islamic state, Islam is the state religion, which is what the state political, military, administrative, executive and judicial system is built upon.

In a secular state, Islam is like any other religion. The state has a separate law from the religion people practice. This is why, in a place like Nigeria, your religion is personal. In an Islamic state, it is more than personal. This is one difference most people don’t know.

Secondly, in an Islamic state, non-Muslim citizens (Dhimmis) operate under a strict treaty of protection. One of the core conditions of that political treaty is that they do/must not publicly subvert or attack the state religion. They will be presented with this before they are issued the Iqamah (resident permit).

And once they sign and consent to it, the law is binding on them. Therefore, if a person actively organizes a campaign to pull Muslims away from Islam, it will not be viewed as: oh it’s just a religious debate. It will be viewed from the context of breaking their covenant and committing treason.

And as we know, treason carries heavy penalties, which can include execution, depending on the judge's ruling. It is a judicial sentence for subverting the state. People must know this. And this is why I am never tired to explain it.

As for the marriage to a Muslim woman. This is a complete fabrication of the penal code. It is true that a Muslim woman marrying a non-Muslim man is entirely forbidden. The marriage contract is null and void in the eyes of the Sharia.

However, there is no fixed capital punishment (Hadd) in the Quran or the Sunnah that states a non-Muslim man must be executed for this.

Because the marriage is invalid, the relationship is legally classified as Zina (fornication). Zina has its own specific penal code that applies to both parties, and it requires severe evidence like four eyewitnesses to the act.

A judge might apply a discretionary punishment (Ta'zir) to the man for violating the laws of the land, but the claim that the marriage itself carries an automatic death penalty is false and misleading.

People rely on shock value. Like a hit and run type of fight. They don’t have the knowledge. The best way to defeat them is bringing the conversation back to the courtroom and the law books.

Allah knows best.