NBC’S BAN OF “THIS IS NIGERIA”: DOUBLE STANDARDS PER EXCELLENCE By Rasheed Abubakar Remember “This is Nigeria” by Falz the Badh Guy? It is the controversial song that featured those shaku-shaku girls dancing in the Hijab. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) just banned the song. The agency also slammed a N100,000 fine on a popular…
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FRAGILE BEING! What a fragile being you are! Oh Niqabi Muslimah! Sweeter than the sweet nectar The flower petals may not be fresher Glad tidings to you who cover. What a fragile being you are! You obey your Lord’s order Through Muhammad being exemplar To the believing women, his wives and daughter Glad tidings…
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SELF CONTROL by Azeezah Olatunde (pentalks) It boiling rage is like The sun that kisses hell. Hotly cooled temper locking Holy devilish thoughts in you. Your mind holds the key to Pouring ’em out in torrents. To cause an earthquake in The unified bonded broom. Your heart holds the pin to To calm the storm…
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HOW THE JOURNEY BEGAN By Azeezah Olatunde (pentalks) It started beautifully, as anxious eyes met the first day with warmheartedness. The Masjid held the boundary of China and swamp of souls gushed in engrossed in sacred devotion to their Lord. Obsolete wardrobe broke into submission as floods of hijab flow out. I remembered calling _Sexy…
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THE MIDDLE OF THE JOURNEY By Azeezah Olatunde (Pentalks) The middle was ennobled by the steadfast heart. The China-ish masjid drop in population not by death nor sickness. The souls just swayed like the breeze swings the trees. Gradually they deteriorated and hijab was embraced with trousers, caps were hugged by galaxy hair cut. The…
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JESUS CHRIST AND THE FIG TREE By Bashir Habeeb Adeshola Many a time, the Christian missionaries knock on our doors with their popular code of preaching, that is “Jesus loves you, Jesus died for your sins, Jesus was a perfect sacrifice who took away the original sin we inherited from Adam and Eve as the…
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BUDDHISM AND ISLAM By Bashir Habeeb Adeshola I begin to write this treatise with the Basmala. All praise be to Allah, and may the best of prayers be upon His beloved prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him), upon his Alh al-bait, and all his companions. This piece is written to black out all incredulous beliefs…
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Readers are Leaders; A Call to Awakening the ‘Ummah Zeal of Reading! By AbdulKabir Yusuf (Abu Maryam) It is no joke that good readers of good books are actually the ones that strike the leading path as models for others to follow their footsteps in life. A person with a good reading habit will always…
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In the Name of Allah, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful Peace and blessings of Allah be upon our beloved Prophet Muhammad, his household, his companions and all those who follow footstep to the day of reckoning. O’ son of Adam humble yourself, your beginning is filthy fluid that if it fall on somebody’s cloth…
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DELVING INTO GENESIS CHAPTER 38. By Bashir Habeeb Adeshola. Deception, pornography and such is also the case as one delves into the exegetical analysis of this passage. a study of Genesis 38 in particular (Judah Onan and Tamar) The inspiration to weave this piece leap up to my mind after I had a dialogue with…
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