Jonathan Nwokpor
The 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has called envy, greed, and selfishness “much greater sins” than unlawful sex, homosexuality, and gambling.
When Sanusi gave a guest lecture on Sunday during a virtual Ramadan lecture titled “Some dimensions of the concept of ibadah,” he made this statement.
The former governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, or CBN, added that some Muslims fail to remember that they will answer to God for their deeds, which contributes to the social unrest in the nation.
People fast and pray, he continued, but they still do terrible deeds “because our hearts are not Islamic.”
A governor of a Nigerian state that implemented sharia law, according to Sanusi, allegedly misappropriated funds and purchased a hotel in Lagos with them.
Sanusi stated his state was still a “most serious example of backwardness” without naming the governor.
According to him, leaders would not steal public funds if they were aware that they would have to account for the trust placed in them.
“On Social order and Ibadah, you know when our hearts are not good, our deeds will not be good,” Sanusi said.
He continued: “How do you explain that you have this external religiosity and then you have so much injustice? And that’s why I say the obligations of the heart are far more important than those of the body.
“Greed, selfishness, wickedness, envy. These are much greater sins than zina (illegal sexual intercourse), homosexuality, and gambling. The sins of the heart are greater than the sins of the body. We are focused so much on the external things.
“We even have had state governors who said they were practising sharia, they were leading the implementation of sharia and they were stealing money and buying hotels.
“There was a governor implementing sharia in a sharia state who stole public funds and bought a hotel in Lagos. And he says Allahu Akbar.
“Meanwhile, his state was left with no education, with no healthcare, with one of the most serious cases of security, most serious examples of backwardness.”
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