Religion and Culture: Any Meeting Point?

Religion and Culture!

Like seriously...

On the religio-cultural thing, Brother Ibraaheem Pharmacy aired his view with an initial deep hysteria: 

"Hmm, but Islam also make the culture as a judge in most of marital affairs and that is why statements like "..and live with them (بالمعروف) what is culturally good.
العرف محكم!"

"So, we can't really throw culture away.", he concluded. 

To me, it is a recount:

On my Nikaah Day, I was asked to "at least tilt a little" for the eldest Sheikh in my Zawj's...
I stood my ground... remained standing till the end...

Getting back home, my people ordered that the legs of 'Iyawo' should be washed before entering!

The reason for that wasn't  clear to me. So I refused...

Sometimes it takes one's religious understanding and commitment to address some cultural issues.

However, If we are benefited with  details behind some of our cultural things, we may come to realise that we could actually marry them along our Islamic practices.

24/01/2020
Bolaji M. Anifowose

...say something!

On the 22nd of January 2020 (Wednesday), I

got to school (DFS) at 7am and while seated in my class, I perceived a smoke-like cloud by the entrance...leading to the beginning of the narrative about a fire outbreak I once prevented! 

Therein, while still trying to make sense...a primary 6 pupil called out to me. Behold! A fire outbreak is warming up right before my eyes...possibly caused by wire-bridging in a socket.

I moved swiftly for a fire-extinguisher after assessing the situation and blocking possible means against extending the outbreak.

Handling the fire extinguisher away from the wall where it was hung, I straightened its opening to the direction of the burning socket and unleashed the cylinder content on the fire.

With 3 to 5 presses the 'alarmed situation' was put to normalcy!

Though we were lucky we had the fire extinguisher handy, the story might have been unattractive if the witnesses to this incidence were not proactive enough.

Thus the reiterated message to everyone remains:

"If you see something, say something!"