Rebuilding Nigeria must start from homes -Cleric

  The Director of the Al-Medinah Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Islamiyyah) Abuja, Mallam Abubakar Miftaul-Jannah has said that rebuilding Nigeria would not be attained till the homes and the children are rebuilt. He said this on Sunday in Abuja at the 3rd Annual Walimatul-Qur’an of the centre, with 10 graduands. He also said […]

 

The Director of the Al-Medinah Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Islamiyyah) Abuja, Mallam Abubakar Miftaul-Jannah has said that rebuilding Nigeria would not be attained till the homes and the children are rebuilt.

He said this on Sunday in Abuja at the 3rd Annual Walimatul-Qur’an of the centre, with 10 graduands.

He also said that the aim of the school and the walimah is to build children that will be proud of their religion, be able to live with others, including people of other religions, to know that if God had so willed, He would have made everybody to be a Muslims.

“But the design of Allah by making us to belong to different religions, you tolerate others. So when they grow up to know their Lord, known their creator very well, they know how to worship Him.

“When they know how to worship their Lord, they equally know how to take care of their children. Because if I am able to take care of my children, my home is good, your home is good, his home is good, the society will become a good place to live in. When you hear that the society is not good, check the homes.

“The primary assignment is left at the home, in the schools. It is the responsibility of the schools, the Islamiyah, and the home, the parents, the mother and the father, to take proper care of the children, so that there will be little for the local government chairman, the governor, the president to do,” Miftaul-Jannah said.

He said that when people hear that the nation is very good, when everyone is carrying out their responsibilities then all would be positively contributing to the nation’s building.

Also speaking, the guest lecturer, Ustaz AbdulRahman Isa Alufa, said that not relating to the Qur’an is a challenge that must be overcome if Nigerian society is to get it right.

He said that Allah has said that Qur’an is a manual and guidance.

“The Qur’an is our manual. Meaning, whatever problem we have in our life, we should go back to the Qur’an and seek for solutions. Because Allah says, there is nothing that is left unaddressed in the Qur’an. And out of His mercy, Allah says in another chapter, Allah has revealed a book to you in which is your story.

“He has revealed a book to you where you need to find all the answers to your problem. And in addition to that, He made the book very easy to understand and very easy to remember,” Alufa said.

He said getting it right in the country is getting the children upbringing right, thus every parent should sincerely talk to themselves and bring up their children according to the dictates of Allah in the Qur’an.