You think you have a culture? I feel sorry for you. Research what I am about to say and if I am lying, May God punish me: You have a culture that predates the introduction of Islam into the Hausa communities. You also have a culture that predates the Trans-Saharan slave trade. You have forgotten it. Your fore fathers established the Nok civilisation 1000 years before Christ was born, but you have no knowledge of that.
There are Hausa names that are not Arabic. There are Hausa culture that is not Islamic. You do not have to abandon your culture to be true Muslims. You can be a Muslim and still retain your indigenous culture. Many times you laugh at Southerners. Unknown to you, you lost your own culture long ago.
Look at you now insisting that covering of the entire body is our culture. No it is not. It is Arabic/Islamic culture. In fact, before the advent of White European colonialists, our indigenous people wore loin cloths that covered only the waist, while the top of the body was completely bare.
And if you read John 13:4, you will see thst Christ, Who your religion venerates, dressed exactly as I am dressed here in that verse.
Read your quote by Bob Marley, and sleep on it. I am a scholar. I know more about Fulani and Hausa culture than you. I spent time in 2000 embedded in Nguroje, in the Sardauna Local Government Area of Mambilla plateau of Taraba state, with the Fulani community there. They are the most beautiful species of human beings on planet Earth. And unlike you, they kept their original Fulatanci culture and Pulaako principles.
Most of what you think you know of your ‘culture’ is borrowed Islamic/Arabic culture. In fact, borrowed is a wrong word. It was FORCED on you. Is Aliko Dangote not a Muslim like you? Have you not seen his photo on a boat in America?
Go to the United Arab Emirates. They were Muslims before Islam got to Sub Saharan Africa. Today, their women go to the beach with bikinis and their men go with shorts. Is their Islam less than the Islam practiced in Sub Saharan Africa?
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Dear Ahmed Al-hassan,
Thank you for your comments. I am glad to be as “irritating and irresponsible” as @BarackObama, Prince Charles (the future King of England), former British PM David Cameron, and many others.
Thank you and may God bless you.
Yesterday, I was heavily criticised for posting my photo at the beach by one Ahmed Al-Hassan, who called my photo “irritating and irresponsible”.
After I showed him and others photos of President Barack Obama, Prince Charles (the next King of England), and former Prime Minister David Cameron shirtless in the beach, like me, a number of people attacked me and said that that was Western Culture.
When I told them they were wrong, and that before the advent of the Tran-Saharan slave trade, which forcefully Islamised many Africans (do not hate me for saying this. Hate history) and colonialism, our people wore loin clothes, with the chest area completely bare (except during ceremonial occasions) and that in Dubai, Emiratis go to the beach in shorts, I was called a liar.
Well, please find below a photo of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the beach.
Please note that he is a Muslim, like those who criticised me (using very harsh language on me).
My question is this, is his Islam less than the Islam of my critics?
Mind you, in Dubai, there is absolutely no poverty. They do not have 13.5 million almajiri roaming the streets. They do not have a radical Islamic terror group, or killer herdsmen and bandits.
Christ went shirtless, to wash his disciples feet in John 13:4. The Quran praises Christ. It is not your clothes that make you Godly. It is your actions.
I have never been more attracted to Islam as a religion than when I visited The UAE, Oman, and Jordan. May almighty God bless their brand of Islam.
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