Your piece was apt. Sometimes one wonders of what value is religion to us if it doesn’t shape our basic personal, communal, social, economic and political affairs.
It is no surprise that the emphasis in the Holy Qur’an is always about “those who believe and perform righteous deeds”.
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Before the collapse of the moral fabric in our communities and the tragic replacement of worship of God with that of materialism, the more religious people were, the more responsible and responsive.
Today, genuine religious practices have largely been replaced by religious competition devoid of morality. Look at the dangerous trend of viewing political issues from selfish religious angles by our mediocre politicians unable to build bridges across divides; the other time, it was “Southern president” then (suddenly) “ Southern Christian president”
The proverbial fire next time if a southern Muslim like Bola Tinubu were to pick a presidential ticket, will be (why) “Muslim-Muslim” ticket. The hard fact is for all of us to practice religion with true to God sincerity and strive for a just and fair society in which no one feels alienated.
Garba Isa
