Thirty Days of Blessings and Simple Hopes – By Anthony A. Kila

Posted by admin Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Religion Friday, June 19th, 2015

By Anthony A Kila | London, UK | June 19, 2015 – Fasting is intended to teach Muslims to reflect and practice self discipline and self-restraint. It will be great blessings for Nigeria if in the next thirty days our Muslim public officials can really follow the requirements of Ramadan and truly refrain from looting or wasting the country’s treasury they have the privilege and duty of managing for all. Imagine how blessed we shall be if for the next thirty days all the Muslims in the country, from the policemen on our roads to politicians and other public officers from our local governments way up to Abuja decide to fully follow Ramadan and truly refrain from asking and taking bribes. Imagine what will happen if because of them Nigerians of other religions followed suit.

Ramadan is also a time Muslims are asked to remember and reflect on the suffering of the poor. In the next thirty days, those Muslims charged with the duty of managing the affairs of the country have the opportunity of individually reflecting on the plight of the poor, they have the challenge of bringing together other Muslims in the same spirit to come up with cogent plans to truly deal with the situation of the poor.

What a blessing it would be for the country if matters of health, education, unemployment and infrastructures are treated by those truly moved by the spirit of Ramadan.

In the next thirty days of fasting, Muslims are also asked to be generous, as a people, one thing Nigerians, rich or poor, can rarely be accused of is tightfistedness, on the contrary the practice is to be generous to a fault. Unlike elsewhere though, Nigerians tend to be generous only to individuals, without stopping that, it might just be great if as a people we start being generous also to causes, institutions and principles. This country needs its Muslims to start giving more of their time, energy and intelligence to help deal with its many problems and weakness. The country needs people who are willing to serve and to give just because they believe and because they are generous.

During the next thirty days, our simple hope is that the Muslims from today take the lead to bless Nigeria. Ramadan Kareem to all.

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