The Mind Builders

by AbdulWahab Mubaraq 'And hold fast, all of you together to the rope of Allah, and do not separate' (3:103) In life, everyone needs somebody he will always associate with, share his or her problems with and find solution to. A friend is an individual who knows you well and you know well. He/she is a person you have regard for with affection and trust. Friends are individuals who you surround yourself with, stick and stand by you in both hard and good times. They largely determine your progress and success wherever you are both spiritually and ethically. To succeed in whatever you are doing, you must choose a friend whose goals and ambition is similar and coincides with yours.   There is an old proverb that says “show me your friend and I will tell you who you are.” This therefore shows that when one is choosing a friend, one has to be very careful and cautious because if one has bad friends then one will be surely be judged as a bad person irrespective of his or her ...

by Hikmah Odewale If human opinion is of first importance in every of your attempt, I doubt if you would ever make a progress. Have it in mind that people will always have their views from different angles irrespective of what you do. They will always have a say, come what may, you can never please everyone. More reason I would like to advise you not to live your life to please people, if you want to live a positive and successful life, most a time people will take you for granted, making several attempts to manipulate and plan your life for you. In the end, they sympathize with you due to the result of their efforts or worse still leave you to your fate and yet take the blame on you. You ever heard of self-slavery? This is exactly what happens when all your efforts are always seated on people's interests, you end up hurting yourself and worst of all go against Allah's will at some instances. Often times, we forget that what we need is different from what we want, ...

EDUCATION AND THE WORLD TODAY by Mubaraq Abdul-Wahab   When I was a teenager numerous quotes and sayings were sung into my ears. Statements like "Education is the best legacy" and "Children of today are leaders of tomorrow" were some of the frequent ones. However, now that I'm grown up, I am not convinced that these sayings or quotes are true, especially after all the old people of our country have turned leadership to their assets. The Youth are not encouraged to work hard academically, others who want to work hard are impeded due to numerous factors. Few weeks back, there was a TV show which was characterized by immorality and indecency in which all sorts of shameful, terrible and ungodly habits were being displayed worldwide on TV by some lads and lasses. After the so-called TV show, the winners were honored with very huge amount of money worth about 45 Million naira! In the world of yesterday, people who are innovative, creative, intelligen...

THEN AND NOW: THE MUSLIM WOMEN'S DRESS IN THE 21 ST CENTURY Gone are the days when being bashful was one of the qualities of women, gone are the days when women dressed modestly, gone are the days when women were self-conscious of exposing their body in the society, gone are the days when nudity was a thing of repugnance. This point of view is however changing significantly in this 21 st century. Albeit, Muslim women of nowadays are great being, smart, intelligent, educated, strong and flexible, it is quite disheartening that the present condition of Muslim women (in terms of dressing and modesty) is deteriorating and becoming despicable and appalling. In fact, if we are not extra careful, the advancement of the so-called civilization and exposure to various different factors in the environment will make it difficult to uphold and adhere to the correct teachings of Islam, as taught by the beloved Messenger of Allah (PBUH). Allah, the Exalted, informs us in the Quran: ...

by Kolade Malik A.  The tower of life; higher than our reach, And the battle for survival is fierce, That many lost, smouldered in the air, Even before the inception of the duel for life.   Ignorantly, they had got along, To birth generations of offspring, But unconcerned of the peril that comes As the foetus trudges to life.   Now my world, no, our worlds are our antagonists Without ammunitions, they fight us, Depriving us of a little prosperous life, That may be gone even before we arrive.   Our archenemy, they make, The "illness" we brought not unto ourselves, Cum their advocacy of a world free of us, We live as a ghost that only make up a population.   What are imminent to them and us - love, family Are what they get with buoyancy, But lecture us on the peril of tasting it, To be something as grave as our "death."   Unless you raise placards above the chimney tops, And your voice...

written by Tanimola , Sherif Olanrewaju Introduction It is unanimously affirmed among scholars that the family is the primary social unit which recruits new entrants into the larger society. The family, apart from its role of ensuring and sustaining the human race through procreation, has the responsibility of educating its members for spiritual awareness, moral consciousness and intellectual development. Consequently, whatever the quality of values, norms of behavior, habits etc. that a child acquires from his family reflect greatly on the society. This is so because the first point of socialization is undoubtedly the family. Thus, social malaise such as corruption wallows in a nation where the family is unresponsive. The thrust of this paper, therefore, is to cogently discuss the family as the bedrock of a corrupt-free nation. Family conceptualized According to the US Census Bureau, a family is seen as two or more people who are living together, related by blood...

Yusuff Ademola A The world was seriously submerged in a state of debasement before the advent of Islam. In fact, the history of the world before Islam is lamentable. The messages and guidance brought by the earlier prophets and messengers, before Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him), were distorted and ignored. As time went by, civilization flourished and declined, and humanity slumped into an age of darkness. There were disbelief, corruption, oppression and injustice everywhere, and the darkness of falsehood engulfed the world. As a matter of fact, the whole world in the period before Islam perhaps presented the gloomiest picture ever of human society. If we were to scrutinize the situation of the world before Islam in the light of religiosity and salvation, we would find that the world closely resembles a drunkard whose periods of drunkenness exceed his sobriety or a sick man who is in a state of delirium and unaware of what he utters. Hence, Islam termed the...

by O. G. Chukkol One of the challenges Muslim females are facing is the wearing of hijab. Hijab is a veil they use in covering their body. These challenges are found even in public institutions. The proscription of the use of veils is normally done through rules made in those institutions. For example there has been complaint that hijab is not allowed in Nigerian Law School, it happened also in Kwara, Lagos, Osun State etc where students were not allowed to wear hijab to schools. This article seeks to establish that prohibiting Muslim females from wearing veils in public institutions is unconstitutional. Whether the position is the same in private institutions or not is outside the scope of this article. To clear a preliminary point, I am a Christian and shall by the grace of God die a Christian. This work is based on my little understanding of the law and love for rule of law. The work is also informed by my agreement with the words of Martin Luther King Jr. who once said:...