By Bashir Hassan Abubakar
A Nigerian based International Islamic scholar, Associate Professor Muhammad Sani Umar Rijiyar Lemo says that as long as leaders and followers at all levels do not see the wrong in breaking trust and promises they made, society will keep sliding into more moral decadence and retrogression and underdevelopment.
The scholar also said such trust and promises are covenant made between human beings and their Creator regarding the dos and don’ts of life and that when humans break such covenants, the wreath of Allah (SWA) will always befall such society.
Professor Sani Umar stated this on Tuesday during the 9th session of the 2024 Ramadan Tafsir that is currently holding in Bauchi, the State Capital.
The Scholar who started the 9th day session from Verse 10 of Suratul Muminun of the Glorious Qur’an that talks about trust, honesty and promises, said that, aside from making covenant with Allah, there is that trust, promises, agreement etc between two or more people and that very rare one sees such trust, agreement and promises being kept secret by both parties.
According to the renowned scholar, Allah (SWA) frowns at those people who break trusts and promises they made among themselves.
“These days whomever you entrust with either leadership position, money, property, office appointment, secret etc, the prospect of keeping such trusts is very slim”.
“Everything that is pious and righteous, like the Prophets and Angels of God are associated with being trustworthy, keep promises and exhibit honest”.
“So long as people are going to remain untrustworthy, dishonest and not honouring promises they made, then such society will not know peace. Such society will be afflicted with societal ills like fornications, homosexualities, drug addiction, lesbianism, banditry, kidnapping etc”, said Professor Sani Umar.
The scholar who took the best of 35 minutes emphasing on the need for society to change for the better, also quoted relevant sections of the Qur’an, Hadiths and Narratives of other scholars to buttress his point.