Overhauling the system is overdue

By solomon2day
On 11/08/2020
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In The People Talk

The four cardinal stands that are expected to regulate and control human affairs to achieve peace for the society and tranquility of the mind for the people are today, the most disrespected institutions that eventually neglect this roles and responsibilities making human dynamic on the issue of social orderliness to be badly influenced into rot.

The institution of culture headed and managed by traditional rulers is fraught with fraudulent acts throwing the society into a state of panic due to social menace. The headship of traditional institutions fails to role model ideals of ethics to the detriment of giving the youth the right way to live. The educational institution is characterized by sharp practices such as the input of the leadership of the institutions our children attend to the poor or wrong perspectives about how to make it in life.

The dignity of labor is wrongly abused when individuals are chanced to begin professions. Examination misconduct is cultural at every cadre of our educational institutions while teachers and lecturers no longer perform the role of good parenting. Moral decadence has overtaken the fabric of the beauty and glory expected of an educated person. The goal of the Town and Gown has equally already been buried in the rot of this part of the world.

Religious institutions no more prepare adherents to have the grace of divine immunity while these institutions no longer feel concerned about the need for a safe and secure environment not to talk of the need for salvation.

In the present circumstance, the 10 commandments of Moses and the summarized two pillars of surviving life and heaven as professed by Jesus Christ are already disabled to have no alignment with the five pillars of Islam which have equally been trivialized into a mere object of rhetoric. Humanity, therefore, becomes vulnerable in an institution of indiscipline, moral decadence, and corruption. This situation is making our leaders drift into the arena of politics, Ministries, Departments, Agencies, and Government under which there would have been the promotion of poverty, hunger, and diseases kleptocracy and Timocracy, making nonsense of the toil of civil servants, entrepreneurs, and petty traders. The common feature of the cankerworm that negatively affects the four institutions, culture, education, religion, and politics is our inability to appreciate the almighty Allah, who made us believe that there is no compulsion in religion and that no religion teaches evil except when we lack the understanding fo the scripture and we fail to esoterically go deep down to the sea bed of God and godliness in our religious worship, hence we make religion to serve only at the Karl Marx level of religious definitions opium for mankind.

Contrary to this, religion is beyond the opium that demands our thoroughness in teaching and learning methodology of religion to the comprehension level through internalization of the scripture for ease of application to suit real-life situations. Moses, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Prophet Mohammad followed the good footsteps of Abraham on the concept of the belief, faith, closeness to God, and love at a sustainable level. This is why the Holy Quran declared in 2: 62, ''Those who believe in the Holy Quran and those who follow the Jewish scriptures and the Christians and the Serbians,- any who believe in Allah(God) and the last day and work righteousness, shall have their reward with tier lord, on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve.''

Let us appreciate the non-discriminative disposition of God towards each denomination or religion and the emphasis on walking the talk of the specific scriptures of each religion. One would find out that the quintessential point of minimum energy level, that is peace, harmony, and unity of purpose should preoccupy the minds of every worshipper to be able to achieve peace and sustainable development for the community, society, and nation to be achieved through cooperative attitude and togetherness in service. Suffice it now to say that we need to use SWOT analysis to overhaul the present existing arrangement, structure, and architecture of all our systems and sub-systems for us to have an easy way into the expected socio-divine realm that would be value-laden through the culture of organizational and professional ethics, self-esteem and ethical practices which happen to be the focus of all laws- from Moses, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad because without the rule of law, a fraud-free society with institutional discipline cannot exist. Mathew 5: 19 refers: ''If a person should obey any command and teaches others not to obey that command then that person will be the least important in the kingdom of heaven.''

Quran 6: 163 states ''Truly my prayer and my service of sacrifice, my life and death are all for Allah, the Cherisher of the world, no partners hath He: This I am commanded, and I am the first of those who submit to His will(through the scripture).''

Let us emulate these three pillars of life-Moses, Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammad; if truly we are their followers, in using the learned lessons from the scriptures to promote social order, restore natural justice and re-establish institutional discipline and zero tolerance to corruption for poverty to be replaced by prosperity and insecurity to being replaced with equity and development, you can, we can and we must, to have a bequeathable legacy for our children.

Prof. Sabitu Olagoke

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