Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi has reacted to the killing of Sokoto student, Deborah Samuel, over alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.
The Islamic scholar who made his stance known while conducting a religious teaching class at Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna, stated emphatically that Nigeria is not an Islamic state, adding that Muslims in the country have agreement with people of other faiths to live together peacefully and anyone who kills them on religious guise will not smell paradise.
He urged Nigerian Muslims to emulate Prophet Muhammad who did not at any time kill anyone despite the fact that he was insulted severally.
“Nigeria’s non-Muslims are not living under the Islamic laws, we all have an agreement under the Nigerian constitution to live together. So, Prophet Muhammad said whoever kills a soul of non-Muslim that is under such agreement of living together, will not smell the fragrance of paradise, such person’s distance to paradise will be like a journey of 40 years.
“It is not only that we are not the only ones in this country, we must know that there was nothing the unbelievers did not do to Prophet Muhammad, but he was patient because he was conscious that if he killed them, the unbelievers he was trying to bring to the fold of Islam will tag him a killer.
“If we now begin to kill people, they will say it is even from the leader of our faith, Prophet Muhammad that we have learnt it. They will say their religion is a religion of bloodletting. At a time when we are trying to draw the attention of people to see the beauty of Islam, we are now scaring them away.”
He chided the Islamist extremists for killing Deborah under the guise that she uttered a blasphemous statement against Prophet Muhammad, noting that the best way a Muslim can defend the Prophet is to follow his teachings.
According to him, “The right thing the students who killed the lady in Sokoto ought to do, is to report her to the school management, then the management reports to the Governor or Sultan for them to know how to stop her. Just by hearing her commit blasphemy, you just went and carried out jungle justice on her, who taught you that? What do you want our country to turn into? We must leave these acts of barbarism.”
“Is it even we the Muslims of Nigeria that want to defend Prophet Muhammad? We that are corrupt? We that cannot even be differentiated from unbelievers in corrupts acts. The best way to go if we want to defend the Prophet, is to follow his examples by being upright in all fronts,” he added.
Lamenting that some Islamic clerics mislead their follwers by misquoting Quranic verses, thereby inciting them to kill whoever insults their religion, Gumi urged clerics to commit to teaching the unadulterated doctrines of Islam.
“It is unfortunate that, we even see some clerics who are telling people that, whoever insults your religion, just kill them. They are quoting verses they don’t understand. There is no one who has the will to kill anyone except through the Islamic justice system. And in doing this, the conditions of such justice must be completed before anyone can be killed,” he added.
“We the clerics need to wake up and teach the Muslims their religion. We must leave this state of ignorance, we have turned like animals. We, the Muslims, are not the only ones in this country.”
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