The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged the Muslim faithful to strive to emulate Prophet Muhammad’s example of humility, forgiveness, and service to others.
He also charged them to be “imbued with the spirit of sacrifice, self-discipline, goodwill, justice, tolerance, mercy, compassion and generosity that lie at the heart of Islam.”
In his Ramadan goodwill message in Abuja yesterday, Tinubu admonished the Muslim faithful that while observing the holy month, they should imbibe the spirit and true meaning behind it.
The message reads: “As we begin this year’s Ramadan, I bring warm greetings and congratulations to all Muslims who have received the grace of Almighty Allah to witness this holy month.
“Ramadan is more than a month of fasting. We fast to strengthen our relationship and our appreciation of Allah. We fast to make ourselves better servants of both Allah and our fellow man. However, this month is more than abstaining from food and drink from dawn to dusk. It must entail imbibing the spirit and true meaning behind the holy month. We must keep hold of the excellent and wonderful things the holy month of Ramadan signifies.
“As we embark on fasting and spiritual reflection, let us proceed, imbued with the spirit of sacrifice, self-discipline, goodwill, justice, tolerance, mercy, compassion and generosity that lie at the heart of Islam.
“Let us strive to emulate Prophet Muhammad’s (SAW) example of humility, forgiveness, and service to others.
“Let us move in this way so that we may make ourselves a better people and nation in which all people, Muslim and non-Muslim, may live in trust, peace and justice as Allah would have it be.”
The President-elect also charged the Ummah to engage in supplications to Allah for the country and her leaders, stressing that the nation’s diversity is for a purpose, he insisted that all must work and pray to strengthen it.
According to the former Lagos State governor, “We must join hands to bring progress in Nigeria by praying for unity and progress. The lessons of the holy month of Ramadan point to the success of unity, not the failure of division. “May this Ramadan bring us all closer to Allah. May our fasting and prayers be accepted. May this holy month be a time of peace, unity, and harmony in Nigeria and for all humanity.”