As Muslims continue to observe the 2025 Ramadan fasts, the Deputy Chief Imam of the Muslim Community Centre Jumu’ah Mosque, Wuse Abuja, Sheikh Tamim Alhasan, has urged Muslims to seek for knowledge, even at old age, to overcome their challenges and be able to worship Allah better.
Alhasan made the call in Abuja on Sunday at the Afemai Islamic Movement (AIM) annual Ramadan Lecture.
The lecture has the theme: “The Importance of Knowledge and Evil of Ignorance”.
According to him, Islam is the religion of knowledge, the first thing to have been revealed in the glorious Quran is a command to the Prophet Muhammad to seek for knowledge.
” So we are here to serve Allah the Most High, and there is no way you can serve Allah if you do not know him.
“The only way you can know Allah is through knowledge. Knowledge of the Quran, knowledge of the Hadith, and knowledge of other sources of Islamic knowledge.
“So, ignorance has so many implications, and some such implications is that there is no way you can worship Allah when you are ignorant,” he said.
The Sheikh urged to ensure that their children learn a lot of the Qur’an because Muslims are blessed with so many schools that combine education of Islam and the Western education.
He added that there should be no excuse for a Muslim to be ignorant.
On his part, Alhaji Ismail Danesi, the Amir (President) of the Afemai Islamic Movement (AIM) said any act of goodness is rewarded by Allah in manifold and seeking knowledge is one of the greatness goodness.
“So for this year, we have the importance of knowledge and the evil of ignorance.
“You will agree with me that, this is a very important topic, especially looking at the situation we find ourselves today, where we really need to sit down to learn the Holy Qur’an, to reflect on the Qur’an, and to imbibe the culture of Qur’an, and to put it into practice,” he said.
Speaking on the current economic challenge, he said knowledge would serve as a basis to come out of out present situation as a country.
“We believe that is the only way that we can be free, we can be emancipated from the challenges of the current situation in Nigeria and globally.
” So Qur’an is the key, the ultimate, the knowledge that Allah has sent to us through Prophet Muhammad,” Danesi said.
Also, the Chairman, Board of Trustee (BoT) of the movement, Alhaji Momodu Kadiri, said that it was important to continue to seek knowledge.
Kadiri advised Muslims to create time to further their knowledge in Islam and other endeavours.
