Morality

Tolerance

Tolerance by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke

 

Prof 4The significance of tolerance among the people of the world is relevant when one considers diversity, most especially in the area of opinion molding about people.
Tolerance, therefore, needs to be taught as part of the socialization process in the search for peace and unity to be realized to a sustainable level of human social interactions, otherwise, the agents of socialization themselves may not even know peace, not t talk of having the ability to regulate and control intolerance for one another.
For example, on the homefront, the discriminative attitude in child-rearing by parents; may influence siblings to become intolerant of one another.

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The absence of tolerance has resulted in the death of one of the parties in the homefront due to domestic violence.

Furthermore, the absence of tolerance has led to the loss of lives and the destruction of properties during religious crises.
For the realization of tolerance in religious circles, the internalization of the teachings from the scriptures is crucial to achieving peace, unity, and development.
In the final analysis, tolerance is essential to promote a safe and secured environment as an enabling instrument for the survival of the dynamics of all agents of socialization-the school, church, mosque, government, home, associations, peer groups among several others.

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Obedience

Obedience By Prof. Sabitu Olagoke

Prof 2Obedience has a socio-cultural significance in the life of every man at every point in time transactions or interpersonal relations.
Obedience as a subject matter cuts across all spheres of life.
At the divine level, prophets recorded to be successful in their missionary work to effect changes among mankind were charged to uphold the culture of obedience to God, Whose commandments they were charged to implement without fear or favor.
Their ability to stand by the accompanying rules of law as set out by God for the societies always strengthens them into a successful message delivery which always stands the test of time as eternal for all generations coming after them.
This is what upholds the sacredness of all the scriptures to date and it is equally a great yardstick against which human compliance with the dictates of God through the scriptures are evaluated for ease of the classification the state of the piety of adherents.
On the home front, God is seen as the overseer on the obedience rule of going about their assignments or responsibilities given to each member of the household.
Husbands who cannot care for their wives are regarded as been disobedient to God, so also poor parenting is a violation of having respect for the rule of law that expects parents to be responsible for the wellness or socio-spiritual care of their children or wards.

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At the workplace, there is always an administrative line of authority that is always structured to stand through ethics and obedience to the senior ones as leaders or superiors.
Disobeying their instructions may be counted as an act of insubordination, an offense punishable by the public or civil service rules.
In schools, pupils or students must obey the instruction of their teachers, while the teachers are not expected to bully the students.
 Appointed or elected officials of government need to swear to the oath of allegiance to the nation by been obedient to the rules of law in the constitution.
When there is no synergy between governance and the provisions of the constitution, acts of disobedience sets in, which may snowball into unpleasant situations.
When the government does not obey court judgments the rule of law suffers. Obedience ensures that governance takes place without impediments.

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Children and Parents by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke

Prof 3The importance of children and parents in society cannot be overemphasized. Only children who have been supported while growing up by parents as responsible providers of social needs and spiritual fortification example can in the future have the wherewithal to ensure healthy living for the parents in their old age. This is why the Holy Bible presents a divine format for a good parent/children relationship upon which everybody would be judged by the almighty Allah.
Ephesians 6: 1-4, ''Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.''

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The Hol Quran admonishes us to retrace our footsteps into a life of sanity and civility. 17: 23-24, refers '' Thy Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him and that you be kind to parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word of contempt or repel them, but address them in terms of honor, and out of kindness lower to them the wing of humility, and say, My Lord! Bestow on them Thy Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood.''
My prayer is that Allah will keep the parents to be able to serve aright their nation through responsible child-rearing while the Almighty Allah will equally fortify the children with knowledge, wisdom, and the power of the discerning mind to be able to grow aright with good payback to the society that has produced them and the nation that they are supposed to serve including their parents.

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Sin

Sin by Prof. Sabitu Olagoke

Prof 3In the religious setting, system deterioration could be attributed to the members' activities of the members of the society or the system in particular that are responsible through iniquities, transgressions, frivolities, and waywardness, and other various forms of violating the law through such unethical practices that could not be controlled by the leaders.
Sin, in this case, could be perceived as transgression especially when deliberate of a law having divine authority.
For the present trend of development in the world, Nigeria inclusive, the observation of sin as a plague bedeviling the world could equally be seen as challenges that are yet to be surmountable, hence, the present state of things across the world.
Governments in every nation today, therefore, must work on the  following 7 sins :
1) Wealth without work through the restoration of the dignity of labor and ethical practices.
2) Pleasure without conscience as seen in the fraud-ridden lifestyles of young and women, wasting other people's lives.
3)Knowledge without character, manifesting in functions of education where pedagogues fall short of good conduct.
4)Commerce without morality manifesting in the way people with affluence do aid and abet corruption for people to live in abject poverty amid plenty.
5) Science without humanity wherein many products of Science and Technology are been used for destructive means.
6)Religion without sacrifice wherein the present-day religious leaders fail to go by the dictates of the Scriptures and rather embark on activities against the Scripture to acquire wealth.
7)Politics without principle.

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Only the truth avails nations and this can be got through the right applications for the Corporate Governance Perception Index that facilitates ethical practices, standard, competence, transparency, and accountability through definable ideological and implementable ideological goals that would be all-encompassing in been people-focused and oriented to be able to meet up with their yearnings for the realization for their wellness.
Therefore the issue of heaven and hell is a function of people's behavior. Sin is destructive while the truth avails a nation.
Let us make a decision to be morally disciplined to be able to live exemplary lifestyles to bequeath an astounding legacy with divine authority. Refrain from sinful acts from today.

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Stand by what you Profess

ProfThe rot in government has a lot to do with the factors of elected or appointed personalities, not doing their work accordingly in the area of responsibilities of the system running on the provisions of basic amenities to enable citizens to be meaningfully engaged to prevent restiveness for peace to reign.
The poor attitude to work is equally a function of many factors that bother on incompetence, laziness, lack of focus, a lackadaisical attitude most especially towards government property and responsibilities. The factors of man in the area of management and administration, therefore, constitutes a societal menace as a clog in the wheel of progress and development.
This usually leads to the culture of moral decadence and institutional indiscipline. When such personalities are given admission or employment, the work ethic suffers because ab initio meri9t is los t in the whole process. The rot has extended into changing the supposed sacred heart of religious worship centers into profane houses of abuse and mere commercial centers.  When governance lags behind in the provision of functional infrastructure, trade and entrepreneurship become stunted with very low energy to transform the system into a real industrial initiative. The consequence of this will reflect in the following characteristic factors of retardation and agitation. People will suffer from poverty and hunger and the majority will ever lack in the area of meeting up with Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs-physiological, safety and security, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs including meeting up with personal hopes and aspirations. The religious sphere through their leaders needs to be thoroughly overhauled to reform clerics in strategic sermon preaching/lecture delivery to suit the need of the nation using the scripture as right references to process the adherents spiritually, in order that they are able to meet up with the social changes of the civil service, Ministries, Departments and Agencies and governance activities, most especially on the issue of ethical practices. To be able to have a paradigm shift from self-centeredness to that of selfless service, and collective responsibility, by this, we would not be putting square pegs in round holes in our scheme of service.
The training must extend to the clerics'  public appearances when in the media-by refraining from the anti-state act of hate speech to the value that would unite every citizen and reform the people to be patriotic towards national goals and values.
Teaching the scripture and living by it will not only help us restore institutional discipline but equa\lly raise our consciousness on the need to collectively uphold the culture of zero tolerance to corruption.
The Bible states in Tim.2: 16-17,'' All scripture is given by God. And all Scripture is useful for teaching and showing people the things that are wrong in their lives. It is useful for correcting faults and teaching how to live right using the Scripture(by intuition). The person who serves God will be ready and will have everything in it to do every good work.''
Quran 2: 185,'' The Holy Quran is a guide  to mankind, it is also a clear sign for guidance  and judgment between right and wrong.....''
Quran 61: 2-3,'' Oh ye who believe! Why say ye that which you do not? Grievously  hateful is it in the sight of Allah that ye say that which  ye do not.''
Our problem in Nigeria is that we do not live by what we profess, yet we claim to be educated-Western or Arabic. Is it not highly embarrassing that with the uncountable number of Churches and Mosques and other faith-based organizations, the multitude of schools and our experts in various fields of human endeavor and with all successive governments expected to bring about the much needed positive change for the restoration of institutional discipline and zero tolerance to corruption, we are up, till this moment, yet to have a breakthrough.  Our been practical by living by what we profess will ever help Nigeria to develop a sustainable legacy of good citizenry and good governance to the next generation. Let us uphold the contents of Quran 59:18,'' Oh ye who believe! Fear Allah and let every soul look to what provision, He has sent forth for the morrow. Yea fear Allah: For Allah is well acquainted with all that you do.
 
Prof. Sabitu Olagoke

Founder, Spiritual Head and Grand Imam Shafaudeen-in-Islam Worldwide,Wakajaiye, Ibadan, Nigeria

Truthfulness

Truthfulness

An individual is deemed to be truthful, when it is discovered that he or she does not tell lies.

Such a person is trustworthy and classified as a man or woman of honor.

A man or woman with this virtue commands respect and has integrity in society.

When entrusted with taxpayers money, such persons donot divert same to private use.

Such persons have no affinity with corruption.

The foregoing has a correlation with faithfulness.

A faithful person keeps promises and is faithful to family, friends,community and nation.

Truthfulness and Integrity are some of the prerequisites for a society to experience peace, progress and development.

When public officers abuse their positions-elected, appointed or employed- for other reasons,the society bares the brunt.

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