Imagine standing with a map in your hands but without a destination marked, it’s just a web of infinite possibilities.
I created a vision board that reflects my goals, values, and who I want to become as I start my learning at @alx_africa.
#ALXSE#ALXFE
@hafiz_ngn The only time I went to the library was to snap the pages of textbooks I don't have PDFs for.
My night class is inside my room or in the corridor of the room.
At the end, first class in Mechanical Engineering
Until those Old matrons start saying their isokuso, and they make reference to you😂
One of them said some stuff one day and she said, Abi Alfa?😂😂😭
E be like make ground swallow me😂😭😭
I don’t know how they’re comfortable saying those things
Some of these issues are cultural and not Religious. This leaving mosque after prayer & going to murder people only happens in the North🇳🇬.
Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 78% Muslim, all its leaders ever including its dictators but 1 have been Christians. No history of religious violence.
Economics will struggle to have their “ICAN” equivalent, because it is too subjective to have a consensus on ideas.
Two chartered accountants would agree on how to prepare a balance sheet.
Two qualified economists would have opposing views on monetary policy and interest rates.
To the celebrities crying on camera, this week.
You're close to the people in power. You have access to them. Please tell them.
The terrorists who kidnapped those children and their teachers, released this video.
They're scheduling another execution.
You think I'm happy living abroad?
I have a family I grew up with, whom I love with all of my heart - and the reality keeps dawning on me, on how many times I will see them before I one day turn 60.
People I saw daily, or once a month - I haven't seen in years, and would realistically only see once a year, going forward.
You think I'm happy?
That one day, I might end up having children and my siblings might not have the relationship with them - the relationship I had with my uncles, in my formative years? I remember clearly how they would take us to MrBiggs every Sunday - I am currently reliving the flavour from that meatpie.
How we would go to the family house in Ikeja, every year for Eid. The grandchildren uniforms, the snacks while watching your uncles slaughter rams.
You think I'm happy that I might one day lead a family of children who might not know their version of that?
WTF will I be doing in another man's land, if I did everything they asked me to do from childhood (face your studies, be exceptional, stay away from crime, be hardworking) and opportunities lined up for me to be the best I could, in my motherland? WTF will I be doing here?
Why will I condescend myself to living in a clime where I have to mentally switch from sun burning weather to teeth clenching winter - when I came from a land where I never needed gloves? You think I'm happy?
If I could do honest work, be on my way home and not have to bother about the risk of getting shot by the people meant to protect me, because I have some lines of tattoos on my body - you think I would leave?
If I could trust a justice system to defend me, ensure my rights even though I am a nobody - have trustworthy institutions banking on the highest standards, not have to worry about the bread I eat, the fake drinks from the club or streets, the fake drugs - you think I would leave?
Don't get me wrong. I am grateful for the opportunities this clime has given me, to test my limits - to be everything I thought I could be. But all of these, in replacement for the soul I grew up with?
You know the satisfaction that settled within me when I could wake up on a Saturday morning, stroll to the Iya wanke's place - relish an entire plate, or some ewa agonyin while watching children battle it out, in a 5 v 5 across the streets.
That communal living that relished my soul, is now replaced with silent streets and finely divided sealed terraces.
You walk through the city centres in the evenings - you see friends having an aperitif (they do so every evening), you see grandfathers meeting up with their children, you see entire families with extended families living across the streets, first cousins are even able to use the same gym and you remember what that looked like for you back home?
You think of all your friends scattered across continents, some you might never get to hug again.
For a lot of diasporans, you don't want Nigeria to work more than us. A lot of us want to come home, but what is home? Where is home? When will home feel like home?
I hope to continue living life without lack, in comfort, with accomplished dreams - but I want to do so, with soul. When I die one day, I want to do so - with soul.
I interviewed people for Shell for years.
Here’s how to get in. 🧵
These tips will help you for other O&G companies too because they basically copy each other.
Same concepts. Different buzz words.
Bismillah
Between last night and this moment, I have chanced upon numerous discussions concerning Muhammad bn Abdil Wahhab, his seminal work Kitaabu Tawheed, the Hadith of iftiraaq, and several related and unrelated discourses
In the process, I encountered a plethora of refutations & counter refutations addressing the misrepresented claims against the book and its author. Baarakallahu feekum Ikhwah!
To begin with, Kitaabu Tawheed comprises over 160 chapters that were/are meticulously structured around core theological themes aimed at explicating the doctrine of divine unity as conveyed by Allah & his prophet.
For someone to open his mouth Gbaga or use is hand to title a book “The book of monotheism”, he is methodologically obligated to substantiate each assertion with incontrovertible textual evidence from the Quran & authentic Hadith.
With all the misinformation flying around, one might assume that the author hermeneutically distorted the verses of the Quran or cited weak and unreliable hadith as evidentiary support.
Perhaps so that people won’t say imam Muhammad bn abdilwahab(the author) said rubbish in his book, he deliberately refrained from inserting his personal exegesis in ALL the chapters. Allahu Akbar, once he presents a chapter heading, he followed it directly with “Allah says…” & “The prophet said…”.
Take for instance, imam said “chapter: Explanation of Tawheed and laailaha illaLLAH”. You’d think he wants to use his own words to explain. The first thing you’d find under the heading are 5 different verses, followed immediately by a Hadith:
من قال لا إله إلا الله ، وكفر بما يعبد من دون الله، حرم ماله ودمه، وحسابه على الله تعالى
"He who professes that there is no true god except Allah and denies of everything which the people worship besides Allah, his property and blood become inviolable, and it is for Allah to call him to account"
Having engaged with the book on multiple occasions, I contend that no sincere Muslim would find fault with the book except one who falls into 1 or more of these categories:
An uninformed or deficient muslim who still harbors vestiges of shirk.
One who invokes deceased scholars or saints during times of distress.
One who subscribes to a form of religious pluralism that equates all religions as equally valid.
4. One who engages in occult practices Abi magic and erroneously labels them as Karaamat.
5. One who frequently patronizes or practices soothsaying and divination.
6. Even more explicitly, anyone who is drooling in outright shirk, to mention only but a few.
Perhaps the most reprehensible category to me are those those who have not even perused the book but hastily formulate their conclusions based on the polemics of partisan critics.
I therefore challenge any critic of the book to produce a single chapter in which the author demonstrably misquotes a verse or hadith, or relies upon spurious narrations.
Furthermore,Imam Idris A oni(PhD) has written extensively in critique of the book, yet has not, to my best of knowledge, recommended an alternative text that systematically teaches Tawheed. He is also yet to identify a specific chapter that ostensibly promotes extremism or terrorism, accompanied by a substantiated analytical critique.
If I were to undertake a critique of any work, without necessarily attaining the highest pinnacle of learning, I would adopt a methodologically sound approach. I’ll first thoroughly read the text, isolate specific passages or statements warranting critique, and then refute them with superior evidence and scholarly precision.
For instance, if I want to critique the statement attributed to sheikh Ibrahim Niass in a work titled تحصيل الأماني
Sheikh Ibrahim said:
ومن يحبني ومن يراني في جنة الخلد بلا بهتان إذ أنني خليفة التجاني موهبة من أحمد العدناني
“Whoever loves me and sees me shall be in the eternal Paradise without any false claim, for indeed I am the successor of Ahmad Tijaani, a gift from Ahmad Al-Adnaani (the Prophet).”