Islam, Shekau And The Rest Of Us By Usama Dandare.

  Islam, Shekau And The Rest Of Us By Usama Dandare.

Please do we have any psychologist in the house? I suggest careful examinations on the latest Boko Haram video in which Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the abduction of over 250 school girls in the troubled northeastern state of Borno. I have many questions and doubts on the character in question "Shekau" regarding his faith and his deadly mission.

Before we move into that, we all has the right to live in peace as citizens of this country and therefore, we should collectively fight to get ourselves out of this whole mess called Boko Haram or whatever. God created us to serve him and help others, so we owe devotion, intention, and wise diligence to God in all we do.

Remember, the obligations we owe humanity are to help the oppressed, to feed the poor, to give hope to the hopeless, to stand up for injustice and to fight for the lives of our fellow humans.
If a person is being murdered, we are obligated to try and stop it. An injury to one is an injury to all.

The security of lives and properties in Nigeria are beyond the normal powers of a clueless leader like ours ( sorry not clueless, i mean a leader who doesn't want to use all his powers not to be call a dictator), the task is now ours.
I don't want to talk much on Nigeria's leadership today as you can see, i am not in my best mood and to save them from my harsh words, let's forget about them but sincerely speaking, we don't have a President.

As i was saying, we must collectively join hands to defeat this demons called Boko Haram if and only if we need our future generations to live in peace and be happy, the destiny of this great nation must never rest upon shoulders of some few terrorist and never shall we allow some scrupulous elements to destroy our Nigeria, our only symbol of pride. Never!

Back to where we started, the recent video released by Boko Haram terrorists where the sect leader Abubakar Shekau was foolishly parading himself as the kidnapper of our school daughters prompted some thoughts and i felt they worth sharing, i noticed some few things that made me to ask this questions, is Abubakar Shekau really a Muslim? Is he fighting a just cause or a hired demon to threaten the existence of Nigeria?

As a devoted Muslim and a true believer in the oneness of Nigeria, i owe God the duty to protest any attack on his religion and also owe Nigeria the obligation to defend her unity.

While watching Shekau's rascalities, i made some few observations from the 57 minutes video released about 24 hours ago and i strongly believes any right thinking person must also observe as many as mine, if not more.  

First, Shekau claimed to be a genuine Muslim, that he's fighting a cause for God and Islam but what astonished me most was the fact that by a careful look at Shekau in the video, he's speaking under the influence of a toxic substance which is totally prohibited in Islam, Islam didn't permit the use of anything toxic and a real Muslim must abide by that directive. How can Shekau under the influence of an alcoholic substance claim to be fighting for a religion that taboo alcohol?

Shekau quoted many verses from the Holy Quran wrongly and uncompleted, when any Muslim knows the implications in Islam to cite half verses without completing them. In order to get full meaning of Qur'anic verses, they must be quoted and translated fully and no half quotations are allowed in Islam. Ask anyone familiar with Arabic words and hear. This translated Shekau's lack of Islamic knowledge or he may have intentionally left out some sentences to deceive his uneducated followers and twist the true message of God, a very sinful act that attract severe punishments in Islam.  

Shekau insisted that Almighty Allah has ordered him to abduct and sell the abducted Chibok school girls as slaves but failed to quote any verse or reference in any Islamic revelation that gave him such powers. By closer look and careful listening, one can conclude the fact that Shekau is a sponsored agent to tarnish the image of Islam and cause unrest in the land. According to Shekau, whoever is not among them is an unbeliever, so my dear Christian brothers should note that this isn't a war only against them but a general war against Nigeria and Nigerians.

The evil Shekau gave us (Nigerians) only two options, is either we are with them (Boko Haram) or we are with the unbelievers as he called them (Mal. Aminu Kano, Tabawa Balewa & the rest). At this gesture, let me make it clear to Shekau. On behalf of all Nigerian Muslims, we are not with you and we will never be with you, we are with those you called unbelievers, yes we with them and Allah (the God you claimed to be fighting for) will surely expose you and your evil sponsors.

Permit me to end with the translation of "Surah Al Kafirun Q.109", the Surah in which Shekau claimed God ordered him to kill the unbelievers.

In the name of Allah, The Most gracious, The Most merciful.

109:1. Say (O Muhammad) to the disbelievers.

102:2. "I worship not that which you worship,

109:3. "Nor will you worship that which I worship.

109:4. "And I shall not worship that which you are worshiping.

109:5. "Nor will you worship that which I worship.

109:6. "To you be your religion, and to me my religion."

As you can see, if the Surah is read carefully with aims of understanding it true meaning and teachings, one can finds that it was not revealed to preach religious intolerance as Shekau seem to think, but it was revealed in order to exonerate the Muslims from the disbelievers religion (the idols worshipers of that time), their rites of worship, and their gods, and to express their total disgust and unconcern with them and to tell them that Islam and kufr (unbelief) had nothing in common and there was no possibility of their being combined and mixed into one entity. The word "kafir' should not be seen as an abuse, it's the Arabic name for a person who refuses to believe in something.

Based on this, I can authoritatively say that Abubakar Shekau as he claimed to be is not a Muslim and he's not fighting any cause for Islam but for the selfish reasons of his financiers and carnivorous blood thirsty terrorists.