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By: Mukhtar Garba Kobi It is common that menace of moral decadence and youth’s restiveness are caused by several reasons and one of the banal causes is parental negligence which jeopardized utopian ideal living in almost all societies. The past years buzzed with activities and ceremonies during marriages were done with decorum and economical; fussing with largesse and couples live harmoniously, with scarce recourses and with utmost level of morals when children start popping in. People in those years relied on farming to feed their families and level of parental attachment to their task was high but nowadays people are jumping in to marriages not minding the tote of responsibilities that accompany it. Marriage is seen as the bondage that halts almost all social maladies, prostitutions and rebarbative acts in societies but some parents from the points of choosing their life partners recede and select based on artificial beauties that fades as time goes not conceptualizing character that...

NIGERIA!!! Oh Nigeria!!! My country, My Dreamland, In my dream. I see beauty in my country! I see love and affections!! I see wealth in every corner around in towns! I see peace! I see Harmony! I see unity! I see patroits  everywhere! I see great and unshakable leaders! Leading you forward! Shouting and screaming forward ever and backward never! Development is your nickname! Employment never seizes! Security is nothing to worry about! Everything in my wonder land of dream is beautiful 😍 But the moment I wake-up from my illusion! From my slumber! From my Dreamland! I weeped and weeped! Because everything is fake! All my dreams nothing seems to exist! In reality! Reverse is the case! Corruption is in order! Unemployment resulting in suffering! Humanity is suffering, from different diseases! Hunger! Abandonment! Fuel hike! Insecurities! To mention but few! Banditry and cronies everywhere! Mothers of the nation are being raped Killings are not excepted! No one is safe! Everything is u...

My jilbab is my pride, no one can intimidate me concerning that. You call it, a garment and I call it my soul!!! Remember! Where there is no soul, no way a life would exist! Why then, do you want me to remove my soul in order to be lifeless?  You said when I remove it, I can fit in the society, I can be civilized? NO! I regard it as lifeless, a state of doom. My jilbab draws me closer to my Creator, it makes me to be modest, it tells me that my body belongs to HE that created me and only HE can tell me how to adorn it. You said, I should uncover my adornment, throw my soul away, wear heels in order to fit in the society and be civilized? Whereby Allah the Exalted has given HIS superior and majestic directives concerning adornment! in the holy Qur'an, suratul Nur verse 30: and I quote "and tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest,and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal ...

Time of salat is something that has already been designed by Allah subhanahu Wa ta'aaalaa. The preferred time for Subhi is from dawn till the full brightness of the morning that is sunrise, in case of  Zuhr prayer, it starts from the early afternoon till when the shadow of an object is equal to it in size, Asr begins when an object shadow is equal to it in size till the sky becomes yellow. And the time of necessity for both, extends to sunset. While the time of Maghrib is the time during which the prayer is performed with all it rules and finally the Isha starts from the disappearance of twilight till the first one-third of the night. Prayers are expected to be performed in arrears because the prayer is regarded as an outstanding debt, as thus, whoever delays its performance till the preferred time expires  has committed a great sin except if he forgets or sleep over powers him. But, then, we decided to make it our habits of not performing the Sallah in it appropriate time! ...

Being a believing woman is a joyous and fabulous thing that needs to be celebrated. It makes one know that she is dealing with a MAKER, CREATOR, NOURISHER, SUSTAINER, ETC who is most kind and most generous to HIS servants. The believing woman, regards the  Almighty as AHAD ( one) and ASWAMAD ( the eternally besought of all!) Observes the Jilbab, obeys her husband, observes fasting, prays and fears her CREATOR whom she is going to return to. For these reasons, Allah subhanahu Wa ta'aaalaa has promised the believer a great reward which is everlasting, as thus:  "{ so their lord accepted of them their supplication and answered them, never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female.'} Qur'an  3:195. And Allah the Exalted, has given the same promises and praises to both genders in suratul Ahzab verse 35 and I quote, " verily, the Muslims ( those who submit to Allah in Islam) men and women, the believers , men and women ( who believe in Islami...