As Islamic adherents worship at ECWA
As Christians and Muslims, yesterday, fraternised at a Church service in Kaduna State, Secretary of Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna, Sheikh Hamisu Ya’u, warned Nigerians against selfish politicians, who create religious dichotomy, apparently, for political gains.
The Islamic scholar called on Christians and Muslims to unite and refuse to be divided on religious grounds by politicians, who, after achieving their political aims, abandon them to their fate.
Ya’u stated this at Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Gospel Church, in Kaduna South Local Council, where no fewer than 50 Muslims, including leaders, worshipped with their Christian counterparts.
According to him, it is unfortunate that people take pleasure in causing chaos for their selfish ends.
“You are not a good Muslim, if you do not see Christians as your brothers. Also, you cannot claim to be a good Christian, if you do not see Muslims as your brothers. So, we must strive to be our brother’s keeper.
“No one can Islamise or Christianise Nigeria because if God wanted us all to be Muslims, he would have created us so; and if he wanted us all to be Christians, he would have created us so. We must, therefore, commit to live in peace with one another regardless of our religious beliefs,” he said.
Ya’u noted that Christians go to the same market, use the same roads and hospitals, adding: “God blessed us with natural resources; hence, there is no basis for us to fight, but live as one entity and one family under God’s protection and provision. So, I admonish Christian, Muslim and traditional leaders to consciously chart a course for peaceful coexistence for all and sundry.
“We must love one another and not allow politicians to play with our intelligence because the present political dispensation can cause Nigeria a lot of problems. We must unite and allow politicians to do their things.”
In their messages, the Wakilin Shehu Borno, Bata Madaki Auta; Sarkin Dutse, Alhaji Shuaibu Abdullahi and others commended ECWA for such initiative and urged other Christian and Islamic bodies to borrow a leaf.
Chairman, Community Relations Committee of ECWA, Senator Haruna Zego, commended the Muslim faithful for honouring the invitation, stressing that it was extended to Muslims in their host community to worship with them out of the love to sustain religious harmony.
