When Shelkh Muyideen Ajani Bello, a famous and renowned Islamic Cleric, arrived Jogor Centre in Ibadan that Thursday afternoon, December 19, 2019, the whole hall packed full with guests erupted in joy. He is popular and well loved. He has a reputation of telling the power that be the truth. Whenever he preaches or you are opportune to meet him at any event, you are in for the words of wisdom, knowledge from the throne of God. He’s a man of God whom people love to hear him preaching. It will interest you to know that not only Muslims listen to Sheik Muyideen Bello, Christians too do. This is because of the way he delivers his messages and manner he coins his words.
Sheik Bello’s journey into what he is known for all over the world did not just start. It is a journey he started many years ago. As a little child, popular Islamic preacher, Sheik Muyideen Ajani Bello, had his first experience as a public speaker at age 10. A son of an Islamic scholar, young Muyideen grew up living with his parents and learning the Quran from the day he was able to distinguish his right from his left hand. More than six decades after that eye-opening experience, the popular Islamic preacher has grown to become one of the nation’s prominent scholars.
Sheik Muyideen was one of the guest speakers at the just concluded 85th birthday celebration of a movie icon, Chief Jimoh Aliu Aworo, and he spoke with City People’s Publisher, SEYE KEHINDE and Assistant Editor/Head of City People Tv. SUNDAY ADIGUN on many of his disappointment in Pres. Buhari and other Abuja-based Politicians. Excerpts.
Your message today was very interesting and impressive. Let me start by asking how has it been so far, preaching all over the world?
I think that question is very difficult to answer.
Why do you say so sir?
It’s difficult to answer because it’s been God all the way. He is the one who has been doing it right from the outset, till now and we are still begging Him to do more, more than this. Let’s just leave everything to God (Ma Sallah).
How do you always coin your message at an event such as this?
Just like what I said earlier it’s God, and we can’t question Him. Once we get to a place and we see what is going on there, that’s all. It is not what we need to go and prepare for. If we have to go and prepare for it, that means we are not doing it frequently, that means we are doing it once in a year, but it’s what we do everyday. God is the one giving us the inspiration, and we don’t know where the inspiration is coming from, but He will continue to bring it.
You are popular, your name has gone far and wide. How do you feel when you hear people talking about you?
Whenever I hear my name, or the call of my name, I always leave everything to God, because he is the one who commands it. We are nothing. We are not wise and we must not feel as one. We must not feel that we are knowledgeable or there is one power somewhere. No.
Everything is in God’s hands.
What is your counsel for people out there, over what is happening in our nation, Nigeria?
My counsel to everyone in Nigeria is to exercise more patience with our leaders. By the Grace of God, Ramadan is coming, you will hear what we would say in it, because we must talk to them, we must chastise them. It’s not the way it should be. This is not our bargain. This is not what we expect from them. We did not agree to tender justice with mercy for thieves.
If we judge the first thief appropriately, another person, will not steal again. But if we begin to embrace thieves, handle them with kid gloves, there is no advantage in it. That means what is going on in Nigeria is deception. They are all thieves “Asewo Sonu, Jaguda nwa. They are all thieves, everyone of our leaders. So, we need to call them out and ask them questions; that, why is it so. We all know Buhari before now. Even if he’s not going to follow the military orders, democracy too doesn’t make us look stupid. Democracy must not be this tense. Our democracy is too cold. So, we have to tutor them. Ramadan is coming. We need to let them know their duties. We need to teach them how to run a democracy. Those whom we appointed, assigned to represent us in Abuja are doing nothing there. They are just sitting there and eating. What they are deliberating on does not concern us, and it’s not what can repair many damages that had been done.
What is your advice to them, sir?
I will advise them to adjust themselves. They should know that they have a specific time to spend there.
And we are not praying that when they leave there to perish, they will be alive, but they will never amount to anything in life. Let them think of that, may God help us.
How did a great preacher start for you sir?
It’s been long I have been preaching. I started from age 10, 1950 to be precise. May God have mercy on us.
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