Remembering Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki
Death has no calendar, no negotiations, and no excuse. It neither waits for the young to grow nor the old to choose a convenient time for departure. Death is God’s last gift to the living. Some of the strangest things about death are that it doesn’t consider wealth or status of its victims, rich or […]
Death has no calendar, no negotiations, and no excuse. It neither waits for the young to grow nor the old to choose a convenient time for departure. Death is God’s last gift to the living.
Some of the strangest things about death are that it doesn’t consider wealth or status of its victims, rich or poor, beggar or king, peasant or president, no matter how powerful or weak, death does not mind. In fact, it does not consider whether one is eating, playing, reading, worshiping or committing a crime, once one’s time is up, it wouldn’t add a single second more for that soul. Death usually comes at a time that it is not expected.
On the 14th of November 2016 Nigeria lost one of its pillar and religious leader diplomat and man of many details. Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, contributions towards the development of Islam and Nigeria are beyond measure. He made the Nigeria local government administration unified through the Dasuki local government reform and contributed towards Nigeria becoming a member of the Organization of Islamic country (OIC). He completed the Sultan Abubakar Central Jumat mosque in Sokoto and the Jama’atu Nasarul Islam headquarters in Kaduna, National Mosque Abuja and the Mashood Abiola central Mosque Ijebu Ode. He upgraded the Sokoto orphanage home and introduced salary allowances for the chief imams and deputies of the Juma’at mosques in Sokoto State and completed the compilation of Islamic literatures and logical works by the founding fathers of Sokoto caliphate and disciples. In addition, he made Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto to be the center for organizing Quranic recitation and memorization nationwide and good representation of Nigeria in any Quranic recitation competition in the global for a. Today is two years since you departed the world.
To keep the memories of late Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki alive appropriate authorities should make efforts to immortalize him because he spent his most productive years serving his fatherland, while it’s commendable that Sokoto State government should name the Sokoto State university after him. The Jama’tul Nasrul Islam Headquarters should also be named after him. The federal government should also immortalize him. His posthumous good deeds are unmatched and worthy of emulations.
With my two hands raised, I pray for you and the family you left behind. May Allah the all-powerful, most merciful, ever-forgiving and all-knowing creator and judge of everything inexistence make his grave garden among the best gardens of paradise.
Bello Shehu Shuni, Sokoto State