The surge of Nigerian Islamic scholars on social media seems to send some grimaces on the face of secularists who scornfully view them as conservative intruders, spewing ''dogmatic'' archaic ideology. God forbid! They erroneously assume that Islamic scholars have nothing to say in the affairs of the modern world. They are programmed with the belief in the superiority of western values, often beguiled by the humanistic philanthropy and the material beauty of the western development.
However, Islam is a religion of all time and situations. There is nothing mundane or outside its scope. It's a divinely-ordained way of life which has much to contribute in every aspect of human endeavor. Islam is a religion of knowledge as clearly portrayed in the first revelation of the Glorious Quran which begins with the Divine command ''Iqra' '' which means ''Read....''. Long before the Europe scrambled out of the abyss of ignorance, the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) did indeed acted as fountain of knowledge from which his close associates first drank and fed others and that was why the medieval Muslims excelled in many fields of science. The prosperous Islamic Andalus (Today's Spain) paved way to European renaissance. The Muslim Ummah has been put to trial of relegation because it has drifted from knowledge to ignorance, from true and pure teachings of Islam to materialism. The recorded knowledge of its luminaries like Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algorism}, Ibn Sina (AvIcenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Ibn Firnas etc was hijacked and their discoveries and researches and even their names were europeanised so as to hide their identity. When Leprosy swept Europe in 1313, king Philip gave an order to set all the leprous people in fire and burn them, while the Muslims built the first leprosy hospital in Damascus and started to treat people from all races and colors. Whatever we learn today is the shadow of the medieval discovery. As Muslims, we go to school only to take back our stolen property.
Why then are these brainwashed souls trying to gag Islamic scholars on the social media with their foul criticisms and mockery? Wallowing in their transgression, they even label a Khutbah which was woven with golden strings of the Glorious Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet as ''ranting'' and ''uneducated demagoguery''. Islamic scholars who are using the social media to convey the message of Allah and His Apostle are sarcastically tagged ''eShaykh'', ''eUstaz'' and other such coinages. Beware! The flesh of Islamic scholars is venomous!
However, Islam is a religion of all time and situations. There is nothing mundane or outside its scope. It's a divinely-ordained way of life which has much to contribute in every aspect of human endeavor. Islam is a religion of knowledge as clearly portrayed in the first revelation of the Glorious Quran which begins with the Divine command ''Iqra' '' which means ''Read....''. Long before the Europe scrambled out of the abyss of ignorance, the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) did indeed acted as fountain of knowledge from which his close associates first drank and fed others and that was why the medieval Muslims excelled in many fields of science. The prosperous Islamic Andalus (Today's Spain) paved way to European renaissance. The Muslim Ummah has been put to trial of relegation because it has drifted from knowledge to ignorance, from true and pure teachings of Islam to materialism. The recorded knowledge of its luminaries like Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algorism}, Ibn Sina (AvIcenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Ibn Firnas etc was hijacked and their discoveries and researches and even their names were europeanised so as to hide their identity. When Leprosy swept Europe in 1313, king Philip gave an order to set all the leprous people in fire and burn them, while the Muslims built the first leprosy hospital in Damascus and started to treat people from all races and colors. Whatever we learn today is the shadow of the medieval discovery. As Muslims, we go to school only to take back our stolen property.
Why then are these brainwashed souls trying to gag Islamic scholars on the social media with their foul criticisms and mockery? Wallowing in their transgression, they even label a Khutbah which was woven with golden strings of the Glorious Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet as ''ranting'' and ''uneducated demagoguery''. Islamic scholars who are using the social media to convey the message of Allah and His Apostle are sarcastically tagged ''eShaykh'', ''eUstaz'' and other such coinages. Beware! The flesh of Islamic scholars is venomous!
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