May the immense peace and blessings of Allah be upon you as you keep strict vigilance on us for another inspiring season of renewed allegiance to the pleasure of Allah for spiritual benefits.
In you, I see the finest example of a bona fide friend in the sincerity of service and dedication, the brightest and the most productive engine room for quintessential devotion and piety . It is through you that an awesome memo is conveyed to Allah for self fulfillment and cultivation of ‘a whole person’ .Your robust companionship is, therefore, ubiquitous and unchallenged, making it obvious that you embody exalted virtue and nobility. While you are gifted with the unbridled privilege of spiritual attainments and remarkable euphoria, it is a great honour to accord you high esteemed reverence.
I deeply appreciate your being a spiritual doctor who performs painstaking x-ray to improve our spiritual achievements and make our living a function of submissive servants of Allah. This resonates with the commandment of Allah: “And follow not desire that it beguiles you from the way of Allah.” Indeed, you are supporting us in a big way to suppress our unwanted whims and caprices. That is why you are a reliable agent cleansing our intentions of filth. Of what use are we if we don’t merrily celebrate your immeasurable spirituality?
As we are currently engaging with your spiritual power, you have given us another golden opportunity to deepen our understanding and deliberation of your divine honour as a productive tool for healing the soul and comforting the distressful heart. That is why we acknowledge and respect your religious prowess which purifies the heart, impresses and attracts the mind. A very big thank you for gifting us a priceless time for spiritual rejuvenation.
Luckily for us, you are not a constricted religious performer. Neither are you selfish in moulding a Muslim personality that excludes Islamic character which stands the test of all times. Your primary motive is to extend your essence from private affairs to the public domain. For example, are we not living in a period of political disarray which has triggered national disenchantment?
Therefore, within your spiritual value lies the values of political resources meant for positive development. In this context, you are the best example of political aspirations for both the leaders and the led. The politics of piety, sacrifice, devotion, faithfulness and sincerity of purpose is what you envisage, fitting the purpose of our political aspirations.
For long, I have known you to be the extraordinary messenger of true human salvation. If we can put into practice your laudable teachings, we need little effort for our socioeconomic and political development. Without your spiritual interference, politics particularly, is never the same in terms of not seeing it as an end in itself but a means to working to please Allah and benefit humanity. It is important to note that whenever you are observed, you are a direct metaphor for reconstruction of the political order. In other words, you are designed to check the excesses of political disorder and halt its rampaging effects.
Oh Ramadan! You are fully aware that Nigeria is in deep crisis. For more than two decades, the country has been subjected to the onslaught of political decadence as a result of the destructive influence of some political characters, values, practices and institutions. We have lost the political confidence and influence that can bring about our desired change.
You have the answers to our national predicament because you exist to teach us sacrifice, faith, devotion, selfless service, honesty and the rest. This year also, you have come to offer us your strengths so that we can discard our weaknesses. Therefore, your greatest achievement is your ability to create a sophisticated and enabling atmosphere for human development.
You are the best training ground for leadership and followership management for sustainable development. Though we have many ambitious people inspiring for the position of leadership at different levels, the quality of leadership that most of us yearn for is not adequate. We deserve the highest quality leadership to fix Nigeria on the path of positive development. In you, I see the best panacea for this political endemic. However, it remains to be seen if we are ready for your lessons such as selfless service, loyalty to the conscience, building faith, dedication to a cause, empathy, affection, etc.
For deep reflections, in the heavens there is calmness and on the earth there is beauty. In the garden there is freshness. In the sea there is might and in the air there is nourishment. In fasting, there are significant lessons and in our sacrifice, there are great events. All these are beautiful signs which illuminate our path to success.
For a better understanding of your practical life, we must be critical with insight, just and acquainted with our socioeconomic and political agitations for improvements. I want to continue from where you teach us how to be just and fair. I want to excel in your passionate appeal for endurance and sacrifice. I want to succeed in your creation of the best example of human attributes. I want to contribute to win the battle for a renewed image to move Nigeria forward drawing large inspiration from you.
Finally, dear Ramadan, it is my conviction that with the aforementioned and outstanding attributes that ably define you, your unwavering support shall not be in vain and we shall continue to keep hope alive.
Abdu Abdullahi
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