LEADING Islamic cleric Sheik Ahmad Gumi has accused the head of Nigeria's Shiite Muslims Mallam Ibraheem El-Zakzakky of being a bad influence on fellow believers labelled him a candidate for hell unless he repents.
In a condolence letter to Mallam El-Zakzakky over the reported recent killing of his three children in Kaduna, Sheikh Gumi said that he had introduced a lot of bad innovations among Nigerian Muslims. According to Sheikh Gumi, the son of the late Abubakar Gumi, the former Grand Khadi of the Northern Region of Nigeria, appointed by the then premier Sir Ahmadu Bello, such bad influences were dividing the Islamic faithful rather than uniting them.
Sheikh Gumi said: “After registering my condolences on the recent loss of your three children, who were gunned down by some elements in the military, I find it an obligation to help you see that some of your actions too are the contributing factors in this unfortunate avoidable tragedy. What I fear most for you and your followers is that the consequence of this tragedy may further alienate your group from the mainstream society and create a cult, if it is not already one, with disastrous consequences on you, your followers and the nation at large.
"For you especially, on the Day of Judgment you will have your account to answer. My brother, you have brought a lot of bad innovations among Nigerian Muslims that rather than unite, the Muslims are further entrenching the divide without any added value to the worldly development nor the hereafter, but rather with serious theological implications in the hereafter."
He added that he had a recent close encounter with a procession of Mallam El-Zakzakky's followers on the highway from Kano to Zaria on December 8, 2014, which was unpleasant. Sheikh Gumi said he saw between 4,000 and 6,000 youths and children trekking long distance for hours on his way to Dutse and after giving a two-hour lecture, he still saw them walking on his way back.
Sheikh Gumi added: “I cannot understand under which civil or religious law you have the right and liberty to block one side of the double carriage road, forcing motorists to cramp each other dangerously on one lane. If your action is to propagate your creed, I am telling you that you will only attract the poor, young ignorant miscreants of the society and never the sane, except of course the disgruntled.
“The delinquency of your followers and the disturbance of public peace is what makes you and them an easy target of the authorities. This is happening when you can as well do very well without such unscrupulous public misbehaviour as the disruption of traffic flow is in fact a sign of unfaithfulness and lack of civilization.”
According to Sheikh Gumi, what he saw on the road was young men brandishing knives and unsheathed swords, beating their chest, carrying inciting placards and chanting hate songs. He asked Mallam El-Zakzakky how he could be a good servant of Allah when he practices exactly the opposite of what the Quran preaches.
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