25th
December, 2021
CHRISTMAS MESSAG
:
MARK CHRISTMAS WITH PRAYERS FOR THE YOUTH – MURIC
As Nigerian Christians celebrate Christmas with billions of their
counterparts across the globe, an Islamic human rights advocacy group, the
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on Christians in the country to pray
for Nigerian youths for divine guidance.
MURIC’s admonition came as the group felicitated with Christians in a
Christmas message issued on Saturday, 25th December, 2021 by
Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The Christmas message reads :
“As Nigerian Christians celebrate Christmas with billions of their
counterparts across the globe, we felicitate with our neighbours and wish them
a Merry Christmas.
“We appeal to Christian clerics and church goers to spend the yuletide
period in reflecting about widespread moral decadence among Nigerian youth and
to pray fervently for their redemption.
“Our youth are on the path of
destruction unless something is done urgently. They have no interest in
hardwork. They are on the fast lane of material pursuit and they are prepared
to do anything to get the good things of life without working for them. They
have little regard for the sacredness of human life. Drug is the apple of their
eyes. Clubing is their major preoccupation.
“While it is true that some Nigerians look unto the youth as leaders of
tomorrow, a large majority are pessimistic over the youth of today. They see no
hope in them. But we must not give up on them. We must continue to guide them.
It is not too late. We can still get good results if we turn to God. The Bible
says with God, everything is possible (Mark 10:27).
“Parents who have forsaken their responsibilities by failing to train
their children and wards properly must also return to God. They must ask God
for forgiveness during this period. They must approach God in absolute humility
and total submission. They must confess to Him that they have failed as
parents. They can then seek His divine guidance and go back to instill family
values and norms in their children and wards.
“MURIC calls on parents to turn to God on behalf of their children and
wards. We charge them to spend a substantial time of this yuletide and
thereafter with their young ones. They must monitor, guide and admonish them at
all times.
“They must pray for them particularly
during this period. Pray that God reforms them. Pray that God intervenes in
their lives. Pray that God purges them of their obsession with materialism and
of all satanic propensities. Pray that they see value in honesty and the
dignity of labour. Pray that God changes them into youths that are useful for
their society and their country at large.”
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC)
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