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  ENJOINING GOOD AND FORBIDDING EVIL   A crucial aspect of being a balanced nation is the noble act of promoting what is good and forbidding what is evil. Those who claim to be Submitters – Muslims, should ideally be the best example for mankind.  You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah. If only the People of the Scripture had believed, it would have been better for them. Among them are believers, but most of them are defiantly disobedient. – Quran 3:110  The exceptional feat of Muslims being the ideal evolution of mankind is tied to enjoining righteousness and forbidding evil. The divine honour mankind has been bestowed is directly linked with the primary purpose of creation – to worship The Creator. Furthermore, the righteousness characteristic somewhat justifies the creation of man, because when Allah informed the angels, He was going to create man, the angels wondered why. However, in His u

  Specificity – Kings and Pharaohs   A remarkable discovery in the Quran involves the historical accuracy of the title of ancient Egyptian kings and the exactitude of phraseology vis-à-vis Egyptology and the antiquated languages. From an historical perspective, Hieroglyphic had gradually become extinct in Egypt around the fourth century C.E. Research into Egyptian hieroglyphs was somewhat revived following the 1799 discovery of a slab with inscriptions at Rosetta (Rashid) in the Nile Delta, east of Alexandria, Egypt. Historical analyses of events in Egypt reveal that during the time of Joseph and the era of Moses, there were distinctive terminologies for the rulers of Egypt. Pharaoh was not the formal title for Egypt's king. In describing the Pharaoh epithet, the Encyclopedia Britannica states the following: Pharaoh, (from Egyptian per'aa, "great house"), originally, the royal palace in ancient Egypt. The word came to be used metonymically for the Egyptian king under

  June 12: Protagonist to President President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was one of the paladins of the June 12 struggle that eventually ousted the military and birthed ‘democracy’ in Nigeria. He has patently paid his dues, and only those who have been inordinately influenced by politically-induced amnesia would not acknowledge this fact. President Tinubu is probably the most prepared democratically-elected president since 1999. When Retired Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo was ‘selected’ by the military junta, he became the ultimate beneficiary, albeit compensatory, of a struggle (June 12) he was not a participator. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was reported to have other plans before being ‘selected’ by Obasanjo to be president in 2007. Following the demise of Yar’Adua in 2010, the vice-president Goodluck Jonathan emerged president. Muhammadu Buhari had failed in his quest to be president thrice, and had given up on his ambition, until he was convinced to contest again in 2015 and became president. However, the

Celestial and Orbital Order Since the pre-Socratic era, there has been obsession with celestial bodies and their movements in space. Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle propounded the geocentric astronomical model. Geocentrism was the prevailing astronomical postulation, and the theory was based on the Earth being orbited by the Sun, Moon, stars and planets. A popular proponent from the geocentric era was Ptolemy and the Ptolemaic system was that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and other celestial bodies – planets, stars, and the Sun – revolved around Earth. Notably, around the 13th century, some astronomers critiqued the Ptolemaic astronomical model, and they were mainly from the Maragheh Observatory in Persia. Prominent among the astronomers were Nasir Al-Din al-Tusi and Al-Urdi. This research phase effectively buried the geocentric astronomical model and laid the foundation for what was to be known as the heliocentric astronomical model around the 16th century. Heli

Spare Harry  It is really hard to ignore the drama from the House of Windsor, even if you wanted to. The typical conversation on the Harry palaver goes thus: “What is Harry’s problem?”, “Why is Harry doing this?”, “He is an entitled brat!”, “It’s all Meghan’s fault!” or “I don’t like Meghan!” Then I ask, “Have you watched the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary?” or “Have you read Harry’s book? And the usual response is “No! Because I don’t care”, and I retort, “You don’t care, but you care enough to form an opinion about Harry and Meghan based on tabloids?” The epiphany the masses primarily know what they are fed, and usually end up as ‘sheeple’ incapable of critical reasoning or independent thought. “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” – Malcolm X It would be preposterous to form an opinion about an issue exclu