The former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said that gr££d, selfishness and envy are much greater sins than unlawful s+x, homos+xuality and g@mbling.
The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said this while speaking at a virtual Ramadan lecture on Sunday, April 7, 2024.
According to TheCable, he said: “We say we are Muslims, we go to the mosque and pray and Allah says prayer stops evil deeds and wrong deeds. Why is it that we go to pray all the time, we fast all the time and then we are committing this evil?
How do you get a Muslim to become a minister or governor and all he is thinking of is how he is going to st£al public funds to build a big house for himself or have billions for his children and deny people?
We even have had state governors who said they were practising sharia, they were leading the implementation of sharia and they were st£aling money and buying hotels.
There was a governor implementing sharia in a sharia state who stol£ public funds and bought a hotel in Lagos. And he says Allahu Akbar.
Meanwhile, his state was left with no education, with no health care, with one of the most serious cases of security, most serious examples of backwardness.
Greed, selfishness, wick£dness, envy. These are much greater sins than zina (illegal s+xual intercourse), homos+xuality and g@mbling. The sins of the heart are greater than the sins of the body. We are focused so much on the external things.
The purity of our hearts, the love for humanity, the fear of Allah, the knowledge that we are accountable to Allah, all of that is missing. What is obligatory on the heart is greater than what is obligatory on the external because this is what Allah works with.”
