Sheikh Gumi Reacts To Arrest Of Teenage Suicide Bomber In Kano

A renowned Kaduna-based Islamic cleric and scholar, Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, has reacted to the arrest of a 13-year-old girl, Zahrau Babangida, who was ready to ‘die as a martyr’ by committing a suicide bombing. 

In a statement published on his official Facebook page on December 26, 2014, Friday, Sheikh Gumi reminded that it was the biological father of the girl who forced her to step on the pass of mass murder. However, the cleric emphasised that roots of the problem are deeper than simple persuation of innocent children by the jihadists.“It’s the problem of the society that venerate ignorance,” Sheik Gumi noted.
Read the abstract from the statement below:

“Ours – I mean the northern Muslims especially – is a case of self-anihilation. Worst still we don’t enjoy the only ‘virtue of ignorance’ which is to accept you don’t
know hence you seek for proper knowledge. Our ignorance is compound. We don’t know that we don’t know. Talk less of seeking for knowledge.

“The religion we claim to know is the first that condemns us. We are heretics, superstitious and many of us heathens. We can only bark, revile, abuse and foam. In the end we commit suicide. All because we refuse to learn and accord knowledge the reverence it deserves.

“Imagine people annihilating themselves by refusing vaccination. Even if the majority has agreed, the point is that it lacks the leadership dexterity to convince or forces the others into doing the proper thing. We are now the shame of mankind. From among us the polio virus has an abode and a settlement to reinfect humanity again.

“We can refuse Banks on flimsy shabby religious knowledge whereas all sorts of conventional banks operate in Makka and Madinah the cities protected against Dajjal and where Islam will hibernate in the end of times. We fanatically adhere to rulings of ‘others’ to the core even if it’s detrimental to our survival while the Quran is categorical that necessity negates all interdictions.

“For long we rejected modern education – I dare call it Western – where as Islam was the precursor and catalyst of modernism. Name it medicine, law, astronomy, mathematics etc. Even if the majority has accepted it, the point is that we lack the leadership acumen to divert most of our resources to augment education. We spend billions on entra Hajj and Umra and polygamous male chauvinistic stunts than pay attention to want is more preferential to our religious obligations and worldy achievements.

“Our choice is seldom anything but sentimental. Our temperament is reactionary not proactive. Our ignorance has become the honeycomb of our leaders, religious or otherwise. If not how can the poor illetrates be convinved to make a trek miles in scorching sun seeking for blessings without Divine counsel? How can people cling to false hopes for salvation, crimes and criminals for emancipation? You don’t kill if you want to survive and you don’t deceive if you don’t want to be deceived. This is the golden rule of life.

“In this people, Zahrau Babangida was born 13 years ago. So there is little or no wonder.

We have to be true to ourselves. If it’s poverty that is tormenting to us stupidity let us know that the poverty is because of our doing. We had enough resources to build our selves but our priority is somewhere else. We have geniuses, doctors, engineers, teachers etc but they all are under the spell of an ignorant people. Their strategy is just ‘Shut up!’ to save your skin. But I say No speak up to save a nation. Let us properly educate ourselves. It’s the only lasting remedy to our predicament.”

It would be added that the girl revealed Boko Haram extremists threatened to bury her and other girls alive in case of refusal to embark on a suicide mission. Zahrau remains in custody, while the police and security operatives continue investigations. Currently they are looking for the father of the girl, who allegedly belongs to Boko Haram.