Tinubu, Atiku congratulate Muslims on Ramadan

President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged Muslims within the nation to show humility, forgiveness and repair to others that are the examples displayed by Prophet Muhammad (SAW) .

Tinubu stated this in a congratulatory message to Muslims because the Ramadan fasting interval commenced on Thursday.

He stated, “As we start this 12 months’s Ramadan, I deliver heat greetings and congratulations to all Muslims who’ve acquired the grace of Almighty Allah to witness this holy month.

“Ramadan is greater than a month of fasting. We quick to strengthen our relationship and our appreciation of Allah. We quick to make ourselves higher servants of each Allah and our fellow man. Nonetheless, this month is greater than abstention from food and drinks from daybreak to nightfall. It should entail imbibing the spirit and true that means behind the holy month. We should hold maintain of the wonderful and great issues the holy month of Ramadan signifies.

“As we embark on fasting and religious reflection, allow us to proceed, imbued with the spirit of sacrifice, self-discipline, goodwill, justice, tolerance, mercy, compassion and generosity that lie on the coronary heart of Islam.

“Allow us to attempt to emulate Prophet Muhammad’s (SAW) instance of humility, forgiveness, and repair to others.

“Allow us to transfer on this manner that we could make of ourselves a greater folks and nation by which all folks, Muslims and non-Muslims, could stay in belief, peace and justice as Allah would have it’s.”

He urged Muslims to make use of the interval to say prayers for Nigeria, its leaders and in addition the variety within the nation which should be strengthened.

“We should be a part of palms to deliver progress in Nigeria by praying for unity and progress. The teachings of the holy month of Ramadan level to the success of unity, not the failure of division.

“Might this Ramadan deliver us all nearer to Allah. Might our fasting and prayers be accepted. Might this holy month be a time of peace, unity, and concord in Nigeria and for all humanity.

“Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslims in Nigeria and the world over,” he added.

Additionally, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, in his Ramadan message, reminded Muslims of sacrifice and devotion in worship to God, which he stated had been tenets of the holy month.

He lamented that this 12 months’s Ramadan interval got here at a time when the nation was at a crossroads, “and as a folks, we’re at some extent of despondency and confusion.”

He, nevertheless, expressed delight that “the month of Ramadan has come to us as a blessing from the Almighty with a chance for us to scrub away our worries, doubts, and hopelessness.”

“It’s fairly clear that the important ideas of this holy month are what is required to heal our wounds, each as people and as a rustic. First is the significance of sacrifice not simply to our households and the folks round us however to the reason for peace.”