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Obasanjo, Governors, extol Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya Kick Starts University Project on Peace, Development At Ikirun
By: Taoheed Oladele
By: Nurudeen Akinreti
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Matrimonial Alliances and Issues PAGE 3
The Promised Messiah (as) has advised women that if their husbands wish to marry again for a genuine reason, they should not protest. However women are allowed to pray that Allah the Almighty never caused them to face such a difficulty in the first place. Men also have been advised that they should not marry again merely out of a lustful desire, but purely based on Taqwah.
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aving been convinced of the h u g e contributions of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community towards ensuring peaceful co-existence and development of people and society, the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo and Niger, Osun and Ogun State Governors have eulogized the formidable Organization for its selfless services on national development. Speaking at the 64th Jalsa Salana (Annual Conference) held between 16th and 18th December, 2016 at Jami'a Ahmadiyya, Ilaro, Ogun State, Obasanjo affirmed the huge contributions of Ahmadiyya
to Islam and national development in Nigeria, saying that the Organization was the trailblazer in education and health. His words: “Whether people like it or not, the contributions of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at to Islam in particular and national development in Nigeria at large cannot be overe m p h a s i z e d . Wi t h o u t equivocation, it was this great organization that blazed the trail for Muslim education in Nigeria and laid a foundation for the emergence of highly respected Muslim intellectuals and professionals who have made, and are still making, Nigeria proud with their
enormous contributions to nation-building and national development.” He added that the Muslims in Nigeria owed a debt of gratitude to Ahmadiyya, which came at a time when Christianity was on a triumphant march riding on the waves of the colonial success, for first bridging the gap between Islam and western education which was initially conceived as an interloper by the old order religious scholars. D e s p i t e t h e marginalization and discrimination in various ways and sometimes violently oppressed particularly in Pakistan, Obasanjo said, Ahmadiyya 2
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t was another landmark achievement for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Nigeria as the Amir, Dr. Mashhud Adenrele Fashola performed the ground breaking ceremony to commence the University project of the Jama'at at Ikirun, Osun state. The project, which has received the approval and blessings of His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (atba) was named Minaret International University, Ikirun. The university is expected to produce disciplined, righteous, skilful and creative graduates. While addressing hundreds of elated attendees, mostly indigenes of ikirun, the Amir said MIU would be a unique, standard and decent higher institution of learning that would be devoid of cultism, indecency and immoral acts. He said the products of the institution need not look for jobs after graduation as they would be groomed into becoming productive and self-employed graduates with professional science and technical know-how. Dr. Fashola said that MIU would start with Agricultural enterprises immediately in line with the directive of
Hazrat Khilifatul Masih V (atba). The enterprise is also expected to provide additional source of income to facilitate the University project. He further stated that admission into the University would be on merit o n l y, i r r e s p e c t i v e o f religious, language and ethnic differences. He said the objective of the Ahmadiyya community is to reform the world. The Amir requested for prayers from all and sundry for a successful university project, as the jamaát also welcomed constructive criticisms. His Royal Majesty, Oba Olayiwola Olawale Adedeji II, the Akirun of Ikirunland , lauded the kind gesture of Ahmadiyya community to establish MIU at Ikirun and vouched for the moral support of all ikirun indigenes for a successful project. Oba Olayiwola Olawale Adedeji II, who was full of happiness, said MIU tuition fee would be afforded even to the poor while the institution would provide jobs for ikirun people and the graduates would be 6
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