Jonathan is Mirred in Evil-Sheikh Gumi
The renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh
Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi has expressed an opinion that President
Jonathan "is marred (sic) in evil". The popular Islamic cleric who is
very influential in the Kaduna metropolis made this observation in a
post on his facebook page which is very popular amongst his followers.
As usual, NaijaPundit brings you the post full and unedited below.
As usual, NaijaPundit brings you the post full and unedited below.
THE MAN JONATHAN
This is not a criticism or a praise of a
man. It is our faith. I mean Islamic faith that looks at every creature
of Allah critically to pass a judgment on whether it is Godly or Evil.
This is how things are categorized. The angels spearheaded by Gabriel
are the Godly spirits while the Evil spirits are spearheaded by the
Satan. But when it comes to humans, Godliness can be marred in Evil and
Evil can be marred in Godliness, therefore what we have is a spectrum of
which the extremes are clear cut and demarcated either white or black
while the center is Grey.
Islam taught us that all prophets and
people of God are in the Right extreme of the spectrum, while those that
fight, oppose and suppress them or their mission are in the left
extreme apparently the black. So since the Good can hide or find itself
in the middle of Evil and vice versa, the Christians read in their
traditions: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” and “For I know this,
that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not
sparing the flock”, the Muslim traditions also warned “In end of times
there will false prophets telling you of things never heard by you or
your parents, beware of them lest they misguide you and try you” and
also “beware of innovations”, “The most evil of things are innovations
for every innovation is misguidance”.
Religious Innovators and innovations
that change the content or the aim of the divine message is the Evil
that sneaked into all the Abrahamic faiths. Judaism, Christianity and
Islam. This fact prompted Islamic scholars from the beginning to have a
profile of every individual that relate to scholarship or preaching and
leadership. These voluminous mass of unique profile documentations are
still preserved and updated to date. Any Muslim can be categorized with
these tags as: trustworthy / reliable / dependable / honest / unknown /
liar / fabricator / dubious / deceptive / confused / not worth a cent/
etc.
This ability of Muslims to recognize
that evil can creep into them, made the intra-Islamic conflict necessary
so that the truth can never be hidden or marred in evil. It became
necessary that each human being should be stripped off of everything
superficial, attached, gained or ascribed to him and be seen as a
homo-sapient first and foremost before passing a judgment on him. That
is why it is absolutely necessary to know the man first before you judge
whether he is godly or evil.
If my faith will down on me to look at
Jonathan not the president but as a man, I will do him no justice since I
don't know him and I have never met him. I can only deduce from what I
hear about him “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes
of thorns, or figs of thistles?”.
What stirred my interest to ask myself
who this man is, is the allegation by his kinsman now convicted in a
South African court of justice for involvement in terrorism. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21119470).
On 5th October 2010, the Aljazeera English channel carried a live
interview with Henry Okah 'Ex-Mend leader' who implicated Jonathan
through a presidential aide who wanted him to tell the armed group MEND
to withdraw claim for Abuja deadly blasts. He said: "On Saturday
morning, just a day after the attack, a very close associate of
President Jonathan called me and explained to me that there had been a
bombing in Nigeria and that President Jonathan wanted me to reach out to
the group, Mend, and get them to retract the earlier statement they had
issued claiming the attacks," "They wanted to blame the attacks on
northerners who are trying to fight against him [Jonathan] to come back
as president and if this was done, I was not going to have any problems
with the South African government.” "I declined to do this and a few
hours later I was arrested. It was based on their belief that I was
going to do that that Jonathan issued a statement saying that Mend did
not carry out the attack." These are the shocking words of Okah. (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2010/10/2010105115843516850.html).
Earlier, Jonathan said investigations
had revealed Mend knew nothing about the attacks. He said the bombings
had been carried out by a small group based outside Nigeria, sponsored
by "unpatriotic elements within the country". This while innocent people
were arrested by the SSS to augment his presidential political
ambition.
The conviction of Okah to me is the
conviction of MEND as the first terrorist Bomb attack the nation
witnessed, which Jonathan hastily using the SSS to exonerate and
implicate innocent people. Was he misled into that? Anyhow, this was
exactly the dilemma Jesus Christ went through - the persecution of an
innocent man of God in the hands of people that claim piety and speak on
behalf of God. This is an anti-Christ activity. It is shameful. This
incidence has made me not see Jonathan on the right of the spectrum. He
can still be good but he is definitely marred in Evil. Evil that either
directly kill innocent people or Evil that mask killers or Evil that
takes advantage from the murder of the innocents for political gains.
If Jonathan should be a true man of God,
let him repent and step down. That will shade the evil that permeated
his regime and committed so much sin against humanity. An amnesty
International report has affirmed to that. That will also stale any
pretext of Boko Haram, the Evil that permeated Islam - that ravening
grievous wolves in sheep's clothing. Boko Haram, either genuinely a
northern political ploy as claimed or a smear from the clandestine
Security agents for his political advantage or strategic metamorphosis
of MEND and their agenda, his resignation will save lives and the
nation. His resignation will promote peaceful coexistence between
Muslims and Christians. It will bring back glory to the nation Nigeria.
He will then probably be a ‘Christ’ of Nigeria or the last Evil that
wrecked the nation.
But as he resigns, the national assembly
should promulgate a law - looking at the political situation of the
nation- for early elections and banning all the former heavy weight
politicians from all parties from politics and vying for political
positions. I mean it, people like the former head of states Gen, Gowon,
Gen. Obasanjo, Gen. Buhari, Gen. Babangida, Gen, Abdulsalam, and Alh.
Abubakar Atiku. They should be statesmen. Let Nigeria breed a new crop
of leaders and politicians. The healthy state of the nation should
supersede the personal ambitions of individuals or groups. We all have
to give and take. That is if we reflect!
May Allah shower us with His Blessings and bring peace to our Nation. Ameen.
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