Nigerians Urged to Respect Other Faiths

Date: 2012-08-16

Members of various communities in the country have been told that diverse religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural affiliations should not necessarily result in disunity.

Speaking at the Ramadan lecture organised by the Oyun community chapter of Jama'atu Nasril Islam at Onijagbo Palace, Ijagbo in Kwara State, the Director, Centre for Ilorin Studies, University of Ilorin, Professor Abdulganiyu Oladosu, said it was the function of every community member and leader to promote unity in diversity.

"Afterall, the Glorious Quran reminds us of the unity of the human origin, as all men and women of different faith, culture, ethnicity, among others originated from the same parents in person of Adam and Hawau (Eve). It is disheartening to observe that 52 years into the country's independence, some people are still pushing the idea of secession and disintegration. These elements might have lost sight of the wise sayings that: united we stand, divided we fall, and that one hand can never clap, and also that, it is when the five fingers unite that they can beat the chest sonorously," he said.

Speaking on the topic, The role of the Muslim Ummah in a multi-religious country like Nigeria, Profesor Oladosu, who is also the Chief Imam of University of Ilorin, said that interactions between Muslims and Christians and adherents of other faiths should be guided by kindness, justice, mutual respect, mutual understanding and cordial relationship.

He also said that there was nowhere in the Glorious Quran or the Sunnah of the Prophet (SAW) where approval was granted for anybody or group of bodies to attack churches or other places of worship, adding that, "in fact, all places of worship have sactity and are therefore, safe havens for the faithful."

The Islamic scholar also said that community and religious leaders in the country have additional responsibility of convincing misguided who he said had constituted themselves into perennial cogs in the wheel of national unity, and make them understand that it is not part of the grand design of Allah to force any particular faith on mankind.

"In fact, if Allah had so wished, he could have forced the totality of mankind to believe in one single God or to affiliate to one single religion but out of His special grace, men and women are given the freedom of choice among several religious options", he said.

He also said that community and religious leaders should therefore, endeavour to guide aright and re-educate the misguided elements in their folds, saying there could be no peaceful co-existence and national unity where places of worship are bombed and set ablaze.

He also said that people must also support any effort to include the imperatives of peaceful co-existence as well as unity in diversity, in the school curricula at various educational levels.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Raliat Islamic Foundation     Mufutau Olatinwo     Diagnostic Centre     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Sherif Sagaya     Gobir     Buhari     Ajikobi     Niyi Ogundiran     Ibrahim Oniye     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Kemi Adeosun     Jelili Yusuf     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Ebola     Michael Ologundea     Dunmade     Folorunsho Alao     Lateef Fagbemi     Valsolar     Leke Ogungbe     Aro Yahaya     Olam Food Ingredients     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Nnazua     Olaiya Zuberu     SAPZ Project     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Seed Technologies     Sobi FM     Kwara North     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Abraysports FC     Musa Abdullahi     TETFUND     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Sunday Otokiti     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Ayedun     Aminu Ado Bayero     Rachael Obisesan     KwaraLearn     Unilorin FM     Alikinla     Kawu Baraje     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Khairat Gwadabe     Olokoba     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Ajidagba     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Kayode Laro     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Salman Suleiman     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Pategi     Alabe     Wahab Egbewole     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Facebook     Balogun Fulani     Bello John Olanrewaju     Muhammed Akanbi     QuickWin     Saliu Mustapha     FOMWAN     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     AbdulHamid Adi     Idiagbon     Sarkin Malamai     Olushola Saraki     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Durbar     National Broadcasting Commission     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Ibraheem Abdullateef     General Hospital     Ifelodun     Chikanda     Oyedun Juliana Funke     ASUU     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Marafan Shonga     V.O. Abioye     Kwara NIPR     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Lukman Adeloyin     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Haliru Yahaya     Maryam A. Garuba     Lithium     Al-Adaby     Sarkin Malamai     Esuwoye     Kwara 2019     Convocation Ceremonies     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Ibrahim Bio     Kwara Basketball Association     Patience Jonathan     Kamaldeen Gambari     Muritala Olarewaju     Aisha Gobir     Fareedah Dankaka     Ayodele Shittu     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Kwara Liberation Group     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Balogun-Ojomu     Stephen Fasakin     Tunde Kazeem     Isiaka Gold     Muhammed Aliyu     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Lanre Aremu     Rihanat Ajia     Onilorin Of Ilorin     NIRSAL     Ajidagba     Abdullahi Samari     Ademola Kiyesola     Iponrin     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Obasanjo     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Ashiru     Ramat Oganija     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Valsolar     Amule     Baruten     UNIFEMGA     Orire     N-Power     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Alaiye     COVID-19 Palliatives     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Kwara South     Kwara State Polytechnic     Gobir     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Ijagbo Health Centre     Ladi Hassan     ITP