THE NORTH AND YORUBAS MUST BE UNITED The advent of Islam in Southern Nigeria particularly the Yoruba land is traced back to 14th century from Mali during the era of Mansa Musa of Mali Empire; at the time the Yoruba called Islam as Isemali ie the religion of Mali. In Yoruba land there are towns that are only ruled by Muslims for centuries. The main difference between North and South in terms of Islam is that in the North there was Sharia System which ruled while in the south there were only few community of Muslims like Iwo, Ikirun, Ede, Ibadan, Lagos and Epe which were ruled by Sharia. The coming of the colonialists destroyed our Sharia system, thus leaving our Sharia system with no legs and arms. Colonialists who came established schools with Christians as teachers. The Whiteman then handed over the schools to the Christian elites just to make sure Islam did not rise and prevail. The enemies used tribalism or ethnic inclination to divide Muslims of North and southern Nigeria. Some unguided utterances by some Muslims in North aggravate the division further. For example , some non Muslims from South would say to a Muslim from the South “ why do you love a Muslim from the North who don’t even see you as Muslim?!”. Similar utterance by some people in the North is like this ‘why do you like a person who keeps idol despite being a Muslim?” All these utterances are unguided and untrue, they only serve our enemies. All Muslims are brothers and keeper of each other. We should not allow a room for enemies. Mali is now occupied and Muslims are being killed in the name of fighting Islamists, who knows if the next target will be Nigeria! Office of the Ameer
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:30:39 +0000
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