The Christians in Nigeria are oblivious of one undeniable fact.
Over the years we have been having peace loving and level headed Sultans.
If not, the provocative things they vouchsafe if appropriately answered by a Sultan in like manner, this country would have been in utter conflagration.
The present Sultan is extraordinary in diplomatic niceties despite his military background.
We Muslims especially that of the South West perceive him as an embodiment of unity and peace.
His nomadic nature ( not because he is Fulani) made him a well known face in Yorubaland. This year alone , His Eminence had been in the South West at least three times.
He attended the coronation of the Alaafin
He was at the installation of Olubadan.
He was in Ijebuode on condolence to the family of Awujale
In sha Allah he has agreed to grace the Annual General Meeting of Muswen in Gbongan in November
This is awesome and our indefatigable leader enjoys these visits at his personal expense.
Before he came on board, his predecessors were not very accessible to all and sundry but today we have an urbanised Sultan who demystified the high office and shows that high office does not necessarily translate to arrogance , haughtiness and self conceited egocentricism.
His defence of Islam from our armchair critics and unmasqueraded enemies is more matured than that of most of us.
That was what manifested when Bishop Mattew Hassan kukah who believes he has monopoly of wisdom crossed the red line during the launch of the book on Boko Haram by the former chief of General Staff, General Lucky Irabor on the 3rd of October 2025
You cannot take something away from Bishop Kukah .
In the world of rhetoric intellectualism he is a giant.
He is equally bold in talking truth to power, only to add that he has the problem of religious selectivity in his brutal criticism of Muslims in power.
For instance former president Goodluck Jonathan rumoured to have bankrolled his Kukah center was a saint who was never tongue lashed by the erudite Bishop through out his stay in office
The whole world knows how horrible Jonathan's handling of the economy was with his wife adding comical aspect to entertain the public in her 'fantastic' rendition of the English language
Some of her comedy have enriched the National vocabulary like
'There is God o'
'Na you alone waka come'?
The political strategist in Tinubu made it possible for him to cage Kukah as a University was established in Southern Kaduna his Christian tribal enclave and to really shut his mouth permanently he was made pro-chancelor and chairman of council of the University .
Kukah is always looking for an avenue to attack Islam ferociously .
He got a good opportunity as the book reviewer whose speaking time being elastic descended on the Muslims firing from all cylinders .
With his vast pool of knowledge about Islam kukah definitely knows that Jihad in Islam is not necessarily war
That it means striving, struggling and labouring in pursuit of an ideal.
Kukah went out of his way to call a dog a bad name in order to hang it.
He went on vicious vituperation that the facilitators of Boko Haram gave them the appellation to cover up the Islamic identity of the group
He opined that their real name is JAMATU AHLI SUNNAH LI DAWATI WAL JIHAD
So as far as kukah is concerned Boko Haram that had murdered thousands of Muslims is fighting a holy war.
The Sultan in his goodwill message betraying emotion from the irresponsible proclamation of kukah educated the likes of kukah with inveterate animosity against Islam. Our dear leader said we have repeatedly told none Muslims that Jihad is no synonym for war.
He wondered that people who are supposed to know are still referring to Jihad as holy war.
The Sultan was amazed that after decades of enlightenment some non Muslims still refer to Jihad as holy war to the extent that to get a non Muslim scared just mention the word ' Jihad' , he would run for cover
He now educated Kukah and his Islamophobic cohorts that Islam abhors extremism in all its barbaric manifestation .
The Sultan added that the Holy Quran was emphatic that 'whoever takes a life except through legal process is like killing the whole of mankind '
The leader of our Ummah referred to a book he wrote its foreward about fifteen years ago.
The title is USES AND ABUSES OF JIHAD published by the King of Jordan
Sultan also corrected Kukah's narrative that Islamism is an ideology towards power grabbing for sectarian oppression.
If i were in Sultan's shoes without much verbal caution at my disposal, i would have told him the Islamism that secured Tinubu's victory in a Muslim/Muslim ticket got him the coveted position of chairman of council of a Federal Government University.
The Sultan said Islamism is an ideology tailored toward good governance not power grabbing for oppressiveness
The only time His Eminence mentioned Bishop Mattew Hassan Kukah in person was when he said he would give him a paper he wrote on ' what Islam says on good governance '
He definitely needs this type of spoonfeeding education perchance he would be healed of his stupid Islamic obscurantism
The camera men were generous in focusing their lens on Kukah when the Sultan carefully exposed his bigotry in spite of his intellectual status.
He looked worried and disturbed and probably sweating inside the fully air-conditioned hall.
If he had known he would face a subtle criticism like this and his fallacious views thrown into the dustbin he would have avoided his loquacious criticism laced with prejudice and extreme chauvinism .
Kukah habitually weaponises intellectual falsehood and blackmail against Islam to gain undeserved National and international fame and probably wealth from Christian Donors.
Hardly is it possible for Hassan kukah to speak at a conference without seeing it as an opportunity to pour verbal vitriolic vituperations on Islam .
He believes rightly or wrongly that our progenitors oppressed his ancestors calling them ARNA (Unbelievers) which they were, but that was past.
We are not oppressing him now
That is why he can open his mouth wide now and attack Islam and go away unscathed.
His ancestors would have done that to their eternal peril
Our ancestors have left the scene
Hundred years of bitterness is an emotive self imposed punishment
They say time is a healer
Holding animosity for long is injurious to the body system
Kukah missed the great opportunity of becoming a patriot using the launch of that book .
If he had condemned American Ted Cruise a pathological liar, who said Christians were singled out for genocide in Nigeria, Kukah's name would have been written in gold as a man who called the bluff of the American purview of tension and confusion in the world
This cannot be, as all the Christian clerics who have been peddling lies on the international plane against Islam in Nigeria were Catholics, who were probably acting out the scripts of their spiritual overlords like Mattew Hassan Kukah who for strategic reasons were malingering in the dark.
Next time if he is not suffering from old age amnesia, even if attack on Islam were reflected in his paper, he would skip it if His Eminence were among the speakers or in the audience.
What he got at the book lauch was an unprecedented and unexpected subtle bashing that he never bargained for, from our wise and intelligent leader.
May Allah continue to envelope our leader with wisdom, good health and courage to take to the canvas our undisguised and unprovoked antagonists.
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