24th March,
2020
PRESS
RELEASE:
CORONA VIRUS: MURIC
PRAYS FOR ATIKU’S SON, OTHERS
Media reports yesterday confirmed that a
son of former Vice-President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has tested
positive to Covid-19. The young man reportedly arrived from a foreign country
one week ago.
Reacting to the development, an Islamic
human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on its
members throughout the country to pray for the young man. This was revealed in
a statement issued by the director of the organization, Professor Ishaq
Akintola, on Tuesday, 24th March, 2020.
“We are already in prayer sessions for the
quick recovery of one of the sons of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. No
young Nigerian deserves to go through this trauma, least of all the case under
study. We urge all our members and indeed all Nigerians to pray for his early
recuperation.
“The young man is our brother in faith. We
feel his pain. Our sympathy goes to him, his father the former Vice-President
of Nigeria and the entire Atiku Abubakar family. We pray that Almighty Allah will
touch the young man with His special healing. Allah has said none can heal
except Him (mon dhaa ladhii yashfa‘u ‘indahu ilaa bi idhnihi Glorious Qur’an
2:255). Medical doctors and nurses can only care. Healing is in the hands of
Allah.
“Our special request to Muslims is that they
should combine Aayat al-kursiyy with laqad jaaakunm (Qur’an 9:128
– 129) in prayer for him. In particular, we urge individual Muslims to recite these
two powerful prayers morning and night to invoke Allah’s mercy on all Nigerians
infected with Covid-19 and on our country Nigeria in this trying period.
“We counsel against the politicization of
the illness of the son of the former Vice-President. We do not know those who
will survive this pandemic. Covid-19 knows no political party or ethnicity. It
knows no race, no colour. More importantly, it does not discriminate between a
Muslim, a Christian or the adherents of any other religion. This is the time
for all of us to forget our differences. Covid-19 is teaching us to come
together to find solutions to our common challenges.
Professor
Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim
Rights Concern (MURIC)
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