This is what happens when we give the microphone to people who are only interested in using the religion to please the crowd.
Is this not the same Alfa who was sweating and stammering when Pasuma confronted him with a question about the ruling on Fuji music? He knows his audience, and he knows what he is doing.
But as we always do here, we will always set the records straight.
First of all, he claimed Abu Hurairah would kneel down at the door to greet his mother. This is a blatant fabrication. We must demand he provides the book and the chain of transmission where he found this. He will never find it.
What Imam Al-Bukhari recorded in Al-Adab Al-Mufrad (Hadith 14) is contrary to his claim. The Arabic text reads:
فإذا أراد أن يخرج قام على بابها فقال: السلام عليك يا أمتاه ورحمة الله وبركاته... رحمك الله كما ربيتني صغيرا
"Whenever he wanted to go out, he STOOD at her door and said: Peace be upon you, O my mother, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings... May Allah have mercy on you, just as you raised me when I was young."
The authentic narration says he STOOD at the door (قام على بابها). There is zero mention of him kneeling. This Alfa deliberately slipped the kneeling part into the story to manipulate his audience. Subhanallah 😭
If you want to validate your culture, do it without lying against the noble companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him).
Second, he tried to justify kneeling by saying that Arabs bend when kissing the hands and feet of their parents. He asked, "Will the person who wants to kiss the hands and legs not bend?"
In Islamic jurisprudence, this is called Qiyas ma'a al-Fariq (a false analogy). He is comparing two different things. Bending down to reach an elder's hand or foot is a mechanical movement dictated by physical necessity. You are bending to reach a target.
Kneeling or prostrating, on the other hand, is the core gesture of the greeting itself. It is a standalone posture of veneration.
In Islam, the act of bowing (Ruku) and prostrating (Sujud) out of reverence is strictly reserved for Allah. When Mu'adh ibn Jabal came from Ash-Sham and tried to prostrate to the Prophet (peace be upon him) out of deep respect, the Prophet immediately stopped him and forbade it.
He made it clear that if he were to command anyone to prostrate to another human, it would only be a wife to her husband, and even that is forbidden.
Lastly, he pulled out the usual emotional blackmail card, claiming we are Yoruba first before we are Muslims. People use this tired line a lot to manipulate the masses into prioritizing culture over the Shariah.
Theologically, this is false. Long before we were placed in the wombs of our mothers to be born as Yoruba, Hausa, or Arab, our souls existed in the realm of the unseen (Alam al-Dhar). Allah tells us in Surah Al-A'raf that He gathered all souls and asked them, "Am I not your Lord?" and we all testified, "Yes, we testify."
Therefore, that primeval covenant was our first act of submission. We were Muslims who submitted to Allah before we were ever assigned an ethnicity. Being Yoruba is an earthly identity and an accident of birth. I have said this several times here.
Being a Muslim is an eternal covenant. You cannot elevate an accident of birth over a divine covenant just to force people to kneel for you.
We must not allow people get away with selling falsehood because they want to validate cultural norms. Submit to the text, or drop the microphone.
Allah knows best.
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@BashirAhmaad I will carry the prayers of my family, my community in
Lagos, and everyone who couldn't make it. I promise
to make the most sincere dua for you, the donor, and
for all of Nigeria at the Kaaba. Let me be your sadaka
jariya on this historic trip. 2/2
@BashirAhmaad I should be the lucky person because this isn't just a
flight for me, it's a dua I've been making in sujud for
years. I've never been to the Haram, and to start my
Umrah journey on the very first direct flight from our
own Abuja feels like Allah writing history with me. 1/2