Man and Deceit

Deceit from the perspective of the Yoruba proverbs and aphorism is allegorical to having double tongues in one mouth or spitting saliva when intentionally you want to spit venom or blood.

From the religious perspective, it could be likened to a person wearing the cloak of a sheep over a lion heart with diabolical intentions to stealthily devour one's perceived victim or prey.

Generally, you become a deceiver when openly you say no, while in your heart you mean yes.

All these are intrinsic in worth because there is no Art or Science in which we can know the construction of the heart on the face. When intentions are hidden but diabolical, it is cooked in the heart or the mind of man, to be regarded as sin, but when the real intent is physically carried out with consequential effect of injuries on a neighbor or friend it is then regarded as crimes.

Faith-based organizations are expected to work on the intrinsic signals of danger in man at its gestation level so that sins do not develop into crimes.

When a family or society is not sensitive enough to the rising profile of sins into crimes in their children or the people, the tendency for the family to harbor future disaffection for a destructive future is already laid as a foundation of doom. 

This is why some families today, have a bad legacy of jinx or records of criminalities including the veins of Timocracy for the society to later degenerate in moral values that would eventually endanger the society into experiences of insecurity.

The game of deceit is therefore foundational as observable characteristics in all children born into a family for the parents to timely work on themselves to correct the heresies of their past so that we would be able to effectively manage the child-rearing need of their wards.

Where deceit has become cultural, the system would suffer from the various bad characteristics, even when subordinates boot-lick they may easily strike and have their way to disrupt and destroy the system. In Africa generally, deceit is the root of our underdevelopment: political party manifestoes are easily deviated from when such a political party emerges as the government of the day.

Since the composition of the people that form the parties may have different interests and goals. Such people only throw their loyalty to the people and the party and identify with the causes of the masses only to turn around against them after successfully wrestling power.

Deceit, therefore, is a disease that is more deadly than cancer because it has infectious nature that spreads rapidly without notice to eventually destroy the system of governance making leaders disappoint the people and lose their trust. 

This is why we will continue to search for messiahs in life till the end of the world because we would continue to be deceived by those people who promised to make the system work, swearing to all oath which they would never mind thereafter.

Deceit is rated to be the number one enemy of the people that is more viscose for man to thread the land.

Deceit as a way of life, in Yoruba parlance eventually led the tortoise to tame the elephant. While we need to role model virtues, trust, loyalty, and confidence in society as elder statesmen we must use all these values to mentor the upcoming to desist from a craze of materialism but uphold the dignity of labor, while we will equally provide the right environment for the development of the youth.

Anation that heeds this warning would not go through the various traumatic experiences of the present time-retrogression, killings, kidnappings, quick money-making syndrome among others.

Is this not the basis of nations recording rising profile in unemployment, corruption, and poverty indices. When we stop the game of deceit all economic equations and chemistry of democracy will become functionally applicable in processing, developing, and equitably distributing our naturally endowed resources by nature from God.

Deceit has made several nations build strong individuals who continue to destroy and oppress their fellow human beings at the expense of building strong and virile nations. Deceit between individuals wrestling for power has led nations into war-making them believe that they are fighting for their rights which they were fundamentally fighting to build empires for themselves and their families.

Using all these yardsticks to SWOT analyze conditions of all nations, it is not an overstatement to say that the game of deceit, in most cases, has been responsible for the cumulative effect of trauma experienced to date.

Destroy the culture of deceit to its root today, to be ablhttp://newstimes.co.rw/e to promote bequeathable legacy been prescribed by the United Nations under its definition of the real meaning of sustainable development, otherwise, the culture of deceit will never allow any nation to achieve it.

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