By Muhammad Tanko Shittu
Jos
Nigerians have been admonished to uphold the virtues of truthfulness and accord mutual respect to another irrespective of religious beliefs.
National chairman, Council of Ulama, Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa’Ikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, gave the advice in his sermons while declaring open the annual Ramadan Tafsir, for the Islamic year 1438AH, equivalent 2017.
He said: “Nigeria found itself in the present situation because its people have devalued truthfulness, and fear of Allah.
“Muslims and Christians should live by nothing but the truth; people should have absolute fears of Allah, the almighty.”
He also called on the nation’s media to be truthful, stressing that “sometimes the kind of news made out of the media is not helping matters in the country,” adding that “it is good that some newspapers have been publishing in the country’s local languages, which in itself is of the good interest of the nation.”
He said JIBWIS had deployed 502 scholars to conduct this year’s Tafsir (interpretation of the Qur’an) to various states in the country and some neighbouring countries.
