Abu Dhabi: When the azan (adhan) is recited in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the Islamic call to prayer echoes not just on the premises of the UAE’s largest mosque with many firsts to its credit.
It goes far beyond to reach all areas across the country’s capital as it is broadcast live to all the mosques.
Thus the voice of the seven multi-national muezzins at the Grand Mosque, in turns, invites Muslims in the entire emirate to pray five times of the day. Shaikh Ahmad has launched a YouTube channel to help believers recite the Holy Quran in the correct way
“I agree with you absolutely. It has never been this bad in peace times”
“You think Nigeria is at peace? If you call this peace time, then what exactly does war look like? For me, the country is at war already. Nigeria is at a tipping point. I visited my Aunty the other day and I was telling her how politicians are already preparing for 2023, her response shocked me, because she is ordinarily an optimist.”
“She said…”
“She said we should pray to get there first as a country before we can begin to talk about elections in 2023.”
“Hmm. Let us pray if that gives us psychological relief, but I know my country. Nigeria will always survive. When the storm rages and it looks like the country is teetering on the brink, and Armageddon looms in the horizon, somehow Nigeria always pulls back, and finds its feet.”
By Mark C. Orgu
“It is instructive therefore that the Rev. Father lost the crowd and the crowd lost confidence in his order before vandalising the Bishop’s court”
I wonder the type of Christian values we practice today, whether it is pertinent or extraneous for worshippers to glory in human beings and then see the mortal instruments of God, the Almighty, the Omnipotent and Omniscience as mini-gods. This has created poverty of idea and knowledge about the living Yahweh by the so called worshippers. Whereas, the Holy Book of life has placed its rules on us: “Those who worship me, shall do so in truth and in Spirit” Therefore, the spirit of truth will certainly guide our part even when we try to go astray. The Spirit of God will not led us to destruction and commotion, never!
Final Call News
How much time do we have to waste? How much time do we have to procrastinate?
Consider this from the Muhammad Ali translation of the Holy Qur’an, footnote #2793 to verse 3 of Surah 103 titled “The Time.”
“The testimony of time is threefold; the flight of time affords the testimony that it is only those who do not waste the opportunity of doing good that reap the benefit; the light which shines along the path of bygone ages shows us that those who did good and enjoined good on others prospered, while the evildoers were brought to naught; lastly, the time of the Holy Prophet afforded the clearest and most conclusive evidence that the believers and doers of good were successful, while their opponents sustained evident loss. ‘Asr signifies time or succession of ages (LL). Some, however, understand by as-‘asr the time of the Holy Prophet, and an authentic saying of his, in which he compares his own time to ‘asr, or the afternoon (B), supports this interpre
Tales the Country Told Me, By Reuben Abati
“I agree with you absolutely. It has never been this bad in peace times.”
“You think Nigeria is at peace? If you call this peace time, then what exactly does war look like? For me, the country is at war already. Nigeria is at a tipping point. I visited my Aunty the other day and I was telling her how politicians are already preparing for 2023. Her response shocked me, because she is ordinarily an optimist.”
“She said…”
“She said we should pray to get there first as a country before we can begin to talk about elections in 2023.”