Kogiflame
An Islamic scholar based in Kogi central senatorial district Sheikh Musa Onogu has lamented the way and manner parents have jettison their responsibilities toward their children, saying the resultant effects are the current vices among young people.
Sheikh Onogu stated this on Wednesday during the annual Moulid Nabiy organized by Idrisiyya Islamic School Okene, Kogi State to cerebrate the birth of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The Islamic scholar, said many Muslims parents have devoted much of their time and energy in chasing worldly things and forgot to train their children in a Godly and Islamic ways, stressing that if nothing is done urgently to correct the anomalies , time shall come when the society will be difficult to live in due to nefarious and ungodly behaviour of some youth.
“It is disheartening that parents no longer check the activities of their children and wards. Nowadays some children engages in unlawful activities such as yahoo – yahoo, drugs addiction, harlotism and other social vices but their parents feel unconcern.
“We should bear in mind that you have questions to answer before God on the day of resurrection on how you train your child as a parent because it is always in the prayers of every man and woman to marry and give birth to children” he said.
Speaking further on the way some people lived their lives, the scholar said human beings these days have really deviated from the words of God hence the reason for the current precarious situations the world is passing through recently.
“Human beings have jettison the words of God and they don’t have the fear of God any longer. Despite the teaching of the holy books people still preferred to follow the wrong path, the path that can earned them God’s wrath hereafter.
“Muslims should have a rethink and go back to the teaching of Islam. The end of time is closer as the signs have started manifesting gradually because strange things that does not happen before are now the order of the day. Killings of fellow human being for worldly things are now common even among the youth.
“I am using this occasion to appeal to our Muslims brothers and sisters to take their daily prayers seriously and prepare adequately so that we can enjoy God’s favour on this earth and hereafter as no body know when he or she will die” he advised.
Also in his sermon, another Islamic scholar Engr. Suleiman Ovurevu, described the Holy Prophet Muhammad as a gift from Almighty God to the entire world , noting that as a model to all Muslims it has become imperative and compulsory to all Muslim Umma to train their children on the virtue and deeds of the prophet.
According to him, the Qur’an described whoever refused to accept the Holy Prophet as the worst animal that would not enjoy God favour both in this world and hereafter and called on Muslims to follow the teachings of Islam as exemplified by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
In his closing remark, Alhaji Muktar Idris one of the children of the initiator of Idrisiyya Islamic School, said that the Islamic which was established in 1985 had graduated over 1000 students in Quranic studies.
“We are glad that today Idrisiyya Islamic School is growing in leaps and bounds as the numbers of people that graced our 2024 annual programme surpasses last year and by the special grace of God we the children of the initiator of the school will continue to sustain the programme as our own little way of propagating Islam.
“We sincerely thank you all for coming both physical and spiritual. May Allah ta’ala never debase us from the love of our noble Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)” he said
