The Mind Builders

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...