Education
Be Focused, Muslim Scholar Tells Students
A Muslim scholar,
Mallam Sanni Abdul-Hafiz, has called on members of Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) branch to be focused on the tenets of the early muslim in order to make themselves and society better.
Mallam Abdul-Hafiz, who made the call midweek as a guest speaker at the MSSN’s programme, titled “Jihad week,” told the students that if they must be successful, they “must be as far away from vices as the early muslim were”.
In his presentation titled “steadfastness in the life of early muslim,” Mallam Abdul-Hafiz noted that the crux of the presentation was a quest to re-direct the muslim towards the right path.
“It is about trying to re-direct muslim to the law, that for them to be successful, they must let their own commitment to the religion resemble that of those first set of people who embraced the religion (Islam) from the beginning.
“This is in terms of their moral uprightness, commitment, unwavering understanding of the faith, the teaching of Islam, the worship of Allah, dresscode of Islam and the character of truthfulness,” he said.
Abdul-Hafiz, a laboratory technologist at the university of Benin (UNIBEN) further stated that it also includes “shamelessness in the face of oppression and all the numerous vices rampant in the society today.
“The early muslim were never part of any vices, evils and atrocities. So, if the muslim must be successful today, they must not indulge in vices,” he said.
On his part, the President of the UNIPORT Branch of MSSN, Jamiu Jabaru, noted that the programme, “Jihad week is aimed at encouraging members of MSSN to be steadfast in striving in accordance to the will of Allah.
The World Jihad, he said has been widely misconstrued to mean “Holy War” describing Islam as a religion spread by sword or violence.
“This is not true “he said “there is no where in the Koran that the world Jihad is translated to mean Holy War. For you to do the word, Jihad means that you should do what is right.
“As a student, what I am doing here (UNIPORT) is Jihad, because I am striving and also struggling for betterment, not only for myself but also the society at large.
The part three student of mathematics and statistics used the opportunity to advice muslim parents “to send their children to where they will learn about their religion (Islam) for them not to be among the ignorant ones that are causing problems in our society today”.
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