His Royal Highness, the Emir of Kano and former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Lamido Sanusi, has denounced radical Islamic teachings that breed poverty in Northern Nigeria.
The Emir, who stated this via his Instagram page, noted that the Southern Christians had set the pace of development in the country, and apparently left the North behind.
He urged Governors such as Abubakar Yari of Zamfara State, to pay attention to his opinions, and teach his people to be productive, instead of being beggars.
He wrote: “It’s my duty to speak the truth about the ill-effects of conservative Muslims who are harming Islam, rather than helping it.
“I condemned their refusal to expand their knowledge outside their own religion, and failure to realise that knowledge is power.
“I also correctly concluded denying the right to pursue scientific and technological knowledge and restricting people to Islamic knowledge, is the best means of ensuring that Muslims in Northern Nigeria will be remain economically backward.
“I’m upset at the legion of beggars on the streets, and is trying to bridge the gap between the backward North and the Southern parts of the nation.
“I still believe that conservative Muslims are still stuck in the 13th Century, and their claim that children need no other knowledge than Islamic studies, flies in the face of reality.
“All the poverty, under-development, and immense suffering in the North, are a result of uneducated masses, refusing to learn work or a trade.
“The majority of Technicians in Kano are from the South, while untrained indigenes beg. How does that make sense?
“Why is it that conservative Muslims who claim to be against scientific progress, enter aeroplanes and fly to perform the Hajj in Mecca, rather than using camels to cross the desert! Why do they watch sermons beamed by TV live from Mecca, and read the Holy Quaran on their laptops, yet profess to abhor modern technology?
“I’d like to point out that there is no harm in copying from the West, if it brings succour to the masses of poverty stricken Muslims in Northern Nigeria.
“After all, Saudi Arabia, the “home” of Islam, is known for its highly-rated airline, modern hospitals, indigenous oil industry, and space program, all of which make it a world leader.
“In our backward nation, we insist on denying the truth. Unless Northern political leaders like Governor Yari, pay attention to me, there will never be a day when anywhere in the North will be like the modern Muslim cities of Kuala Lumpar, Istanbul, Jakarta, Lahore, Greater Cairo, Dacca, Karachi, Dubai, Riyadh, or Faisalabad.”
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nice one,tell them.
ReplyDeleteThere's great harm for a good muslim to copying from western life perhaps strict us to copy from the teaching of our beloved prophet..because they are not lined with teaching of islam
ReplyDeleteThere's great harm for a good muslim to copying from western life perhaps strict us to copy from the teaching of our beloved prophet..because they are not lined with teaching of islam
ReplyDeleteThis Umar Hassan is one of Nigerian problems, go and tell that piece of trash to Saudi Arabia's King because i believe he knows Islam more than you do..... Idiot why are you using a phone?? Stop using phones
ReplyDeleteUmar Hassan how did you acquire this level of English, you hear the truth and still think the lies you've been taught all your life as a Muslim is more truthful... You are of all men miserable!!!
ReplyDeleteHassan seat back and ponder over what a ruler is telling you. I have been to Cairo, Dubai and Amman people are educated and liberal but never left the belief of Islam and i bet you Nigeria itself joined with the South we are never half way to be compared with them let's tell ourselves the Truth
ReplyDeleteBut this headline is misleading! I can't see where he said he is ready to convert to Christianity, I beg to be guided.
ReplyDeleteI am on the same page with u
DeleteHmmmm... Very Well Said. I want to believe this's coming right from him and not that he wrote this piece under any negative influence. Pray he meant what he said and ready to bell the cart and enforces it from his Base... He's educated and influential as well so I expect him to set the ball rolling so that people like Umar Hassan would see the Light
ReplyDeleteWell said.
ReplyDeleteThere is no harm in copying the modern technology and development, umar u are not islamically well educated if u wouldn't have said that, I support the emir.
ReplyDeleteif boko is haram or education is a crime, de shud top putting on shoes, stop driving cars, no use of cloths, stop eating foods from manufacturing company such as bread, indomie, foreign rice cus de were imported through airplane, stop using zinc for building, stop drinking juice, no use of mobile phone, no use of electricity, e.t.c.
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