Source: mydailynewswatchng.com
Mrs. Modupe Adekunle, Ogun State Head of Service, (middle), flanked by members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at during a courtesy visit to her office recently.
The women’s wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria, Lajna Imaillah, Nigeria (Women Servants of Allah) has appealed to members of the Boko Haram sect and their allies to release the abducted Chibok girls and bring them back alive.
In a release signed by its head, Hajia Basirat Olajumoke Dikko, in Lagos, the women group frowned at the dastardly and criminal acts of the Boko Haram group as well as their ideology against Western education.
The group stated that the activities of Boko Haram were against the basic tenets of Islam which encouraged education for all, including the girl child while noting that Muslims are enjoined to seek knowledge.
The women explained that Islam is not merely a religion; it is a way of life, a life to be lived. “There is nothing intrinsic to Islam which forbids its adherents to acquire knowledge of any sort whether art, science, technology or theology. Man is free to investigate not only the things on earth but explore the regions in space.”
A Muslim’s search for knowledge should be as expansive as… mydailynewswatchng.com
A well deserved statenent by the women group of the ahmadiyya muslim jamaat in Nigeria. It is a wake up call to an official meeting between the Nigerian President and the parents of abducted Chibok girls and thos who escape the abduction.