TRIBUTE TO ALBANI ZARIA
“....Look at the services (da muke)
rendering to the society, to the government itself, but look at how they pay it
back to us on a negative side of it....” [sic]
-
Muhammad Auwal Adam Albani
Saturday, February 1, 2014, about four or five hours
to his assassination. Cassette number 172 of Sahih Muslim
If the killing of Islamic scholars can make people
become mealy mouthed fellows, Albani could have not become a scholar. This is
because, many God fearing, well learned men whose pen and tongue portray the
truth and keep people religiously
informed were murdered long
before Albani was born, and many would be assassinated now and in the near
future. That is why imprisonment, torture, killing at most had not become a wet
blanket to Malam Albani.
Allahu Akbar! The assassination of Malam Albani
reminds me of a verse in the Glorious Quran:
AND MANY A PROPHET FOUGT (In Allah Cause) AND ALONG
WITH HIM (fought) A LARGE BAND OF RELIGIOUS LEARNED MEN. BUT THEY NEVER LOST
HEART FOR THAT WHICH DID BEFALL THEM IN ALLAH’S WAY, NOR DID THEY WEAKEN NOR
DEGRADE THEMSELVES AND ALLAH LOVES THE PATIENT (Q3:146)
What is worrying me seriously most is the bad reward
with which Nigerians honoured Albani. He was given appointment to serve in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where his life would be a bed of roses, but he
rejected the offer saying: I love my people, my country needs me, I want
to let my people know the sunnah of my Master, Muhammad Rasulullahi.
Poor Albani! He did not know that his country is
plotting against him. Uhm! I really
commensurate with him.
I have to let the killers and all those behind it know
that:
1. Albani
was only killed but not defeated. His footprints in the sand of time will never
be wiped out. His teachings, motivations, awareness, revolution, will surely be
in existence till when Allah (swa) will inherit the land and all that is upon it.
2. Albani
is a big gun, not only in Nigeria but the world at large. His funeral had
revealed the truthfulness of what I have said. The land of Zazzau had never
before witnessed a funeral like Albani’s. In fact it is a funeral like no
other.
3. Albani
was a hero. In heroism and hardworking, he was not comparable to any
contemporary scholar. What he was shouldering alone and alone during his life
time is now shared among some well learned men.
4. Albani
had gone and left you with your dirty Nigeria. May his soul rest in perfect
peace. May Allah accept his martyrdom. Amen
To his successors, I have to say:
you should remember that you have worn a battle-dress and the verge on then
either side of the path to the battle field is very thorny. Patience,
perseverance and God fearing are the prerequisite for gaining success in daawa.
What a pity! Hauwa’u, a little girl of just three
years asked one of our grandmother, “Yafindo, me Albani ya yi musu su ka
kashe shi?” meaning : Why did they killed Albani? This question made the
old woman to burst into tears that even her tear duct had witnessed that the
old woman was sad about the homicide. The tears of this old woman and that of
all who sobbed over the carnage would rip the killers and their sponsors up!
Amen