When you’re going through heavy days, please try not to pour that weight onto your children. Adults around you may understand your silence, your distance, or even your frustration, but children are innocent and do not deserve to carry emotions they cannot process.
By all means, take space if you need to. Isolate yourself. Cry, rest, breathe, But still check on your kids. Still reassure them. Still soften your voice for them.
And if you have to put on the greatest acting performance of your life just to make them feel safe and loved, please do. Some things children remember for the rest of their lives are not the hard times, but how the adults around them made them feel during those hard times.
If your spiritual routine is exhausting you, it likely needs balance, not more pressure. Islam isn’t about doing everything at once, but about doing what you can sustain. Even the Prophet (ﷺ) taught moderation, reminding us that we have rights over ourselves, our bodies, and our families.
The goal isn’t intensity, it’s consistency. The best deeds are those done regularly, even if small.
Ina budewa naji muryansa na rufe, idan na cigaba da kallo zai bata min rai a banza in shaqi shi. Don’t care what he has to say with that voice, can’t be anything good
Every almajiri child you see on the street today is a reflection of policy failure, lack of investment in education, weak social welfare systems, and poor child protection.
When children grow up believing they have no future, they become easy targets for manipulation. If we want security, we must first invest in these children.
Compensated? No, you should revert us to the band that is commensurate with the hours of power you supply. We have been on this epilepsy for weeks. How do you want to compensate for that?
But you are charging me for being on Band A, which is a minimum of 20-22 hours of power supply, whether shortage from national grid or not. That is a contract forced on me, yet you are not meeting your side of the forced contract. Who pays for the difference? The shortage is not supposed to be my business. Give me light for what you are charging me for. If you can’t guarantee that, then don’t force me to pay for service you cannot provide.
O Allah, as the final moments of Ramadan 1447 slip away, we stand before You with hearts humbled and hopeful.
O Allah, accept from us our fasting, our prayers, our recitation, our charity, and every tear shed for Your sake. Accept it from us, even if it was imperfect, for You are the Most Generous, the Most Merciful.
O Allah, forgive our sins the past and the present, the hidden and the apparent. Cleanse our hearts, purify our intentions, and write us among those who are freed from the Fire in this blessed month.
O Allah, keep us steadfast after Ramadan. Do not let our worship end with its ending. Make us among those who remain consistent in prayer, remembrance, and righteousness throughout the year.
O Allah, unite our hearts, ease the hardships of the Ummah, grant relief to the oppressed, and bring peace and dignity to our brothers and sisters across the world.
O Allah, accept our duʿā’, for You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
When leaders lose the capacity to feel shame, they lose the capacity to govern with conscience. Citizens are slaughtered daily by bandits — and yet there is no visible remorse, no urgency, no accountability.
A society dies first when its leaders stop feeling ashamed.
It is tragic, really tragic that we live in a country where human lives have literally lost its meaning.
It is unacceptable for us to continue living like this.
May anyone with a hand in our collective sufferings, know no peace or security in their lives.
Allah ya isa!
These people are wearing hijab and visiting the Haram under false pretenses. It’s forbidden for non Muslims to visit the holy mosques. The annoying thing is they are making content out of it.
Talm about “please the Muslim girlies should not come for me”
If I no wozz you slap.
I rushed my daughter to hospital at past 2am this morning. Needing to pay for lab tests and medication, I approached the cashier. This lady was sleeping comfortably, as though she was at home. I called her attention. She woke up briefly, mumbled a few words, and returned to sleep. It was hard. At some point, I decided to just stand and wait. She relaxed into her chair, dragged her duvet, and returned to what must have been blissful sleep.
I stood there for 10 minutes weighing my options. Should I be angry and rant? Should I show empathy by understanding her situation?
Eventually, the doctor was passing by and I reported to him. He approached her and she mustered the effort, albeit painfully, to finally attend to me. The doctor had been kind enough to proceed with emergency care for my child while I was sorting out the bills. Otherwise, we would have lost 15 minutes of valuable time to save a life, depending on what the ailment was.
My daughter has been stabilised. We are still here. Hopefully, she will be fine.
But, in between attending to my child and responding to passenger complaints on the time line and in my DM, I thought about that cashier and the attitude of night shift staff in a lot of businesses in our country. Something is not right.
A night shift staff is expected to have taken care of sleep during the day. Take the hotels abroad, for example. The front desk staff are mostly not even allowed to sit. They stand all night behind their counters, attending to customers. And this practice cuts across a lot of other sectors outside hospitality.
I can understand it if a doctor or nurse was catching a nap. Even they are expected to be alert, despite the tough nature of their jobs. But a cashier?
I remember the number of times I have stayed in hotels here, where the 'receptionist' would bark at guests for disrupting their sleep because they needed something.
"Why are you sleeping on duty in the first place?"
"Oga, am I not a human being? Is this not night? Are you not supposed to be asleep yourself?"
This is the most common retort I have heard. Then comes the gaslighting when you report to management.
"You lack empathy, oga. Do you not feel for him/her? You can sleep, but you don't want another person to sleep?"
I detest this. It is called SHIFT for a reason. That is your duty time. That is when you are supposed to do your job.
An Egyptian front desk officer at the Pullman in Dubai, told me in 2018 when I asked why they had no chairs, that they are only allowed to walk around the lobby when they felt sleepy. But seats are not provided so that they don't get too comfortable on duty. That way, customers are guaranteed prompt attention when they need it.
We must build a system of monitoring our on-duty personnel. At the NCAA, we are in the final stages of automating that process in my department. I do not want a situation where passengers are stranded at night, and our CPOs who are meant to be on duty would be answering my calls from home while claiming to be at the terminal. With automation, I can see where they are, real time.
We must embrace a work culture that places the highest possible standards on night-shift staff. Those are crucial hours where time should not be lost. Customers/patients are most vulnerable at night, and should be guaranteed efficient and speedy attention.
There is no emotional perspective to this. Work, if you must do it, must be done well.
Happy New Year.
Daga ka sabar ma mutane da abu they start to think its their birthright. What you don’t want is to allow people develop a sense of entitlement, daga sun fara nuna ma kaman dole ne, sai a neme ka a rasa. Cire musu kan batir, wutan kansu ya dauke wullup kaman kwan lantarki
STOP THE MUSLIMS GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.
STOP THE MUSLIMS GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.
STOP THE MUSLIMS GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.
STOP THE MUSLIMS GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.
STOP THE MUSLIMS GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.
STOP THE MUSLIMS GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.
STOP THE MUSLIMS GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.