Future of Muslim Youth in South Western Nigeria

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Future of Muslim Youth in South Western Nigeria

• Being a Presentation to
• the
• Forum for Islamic Education and Welfare
• by
• Oladosu Ayinde Afis Ph.D
• Senior Lecturer
• Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
• University of Ibadan
• 28 Z.Qidah 1429 (27 Nov. 2008)

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Initial Problematics Categories and Trajectories

• Knowing The Muslim Youth The Modernist (The Rim
  of life)
• Knowing the Muslim Youth The Karikasas/traditioni
  st (Return to the Past
• Knowing the Muslim Youth The Balancers
• Youthfulness is not about age, its about life
  its not what life offers but what you imbue life
  with
• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
  the ability to unlearn old falsehoods

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Southwestern Nigeria

• Agon of Globalization
• Melting Pot of/for Chris-Lam-Herb-Atheists
• Political Hotbed-The Invaders, the Destroyers,
  the Builders
• Envy of the Educationally Dis-advantaged
• It does not matter anymore where you were born
  what matters more is what you do with where you
  were born
• Al-maru la min aythu yulad bal min aythu
  yujad

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The Muslim Youth in SW Reading the Past in the
Present

• Dis/Locating the MY the home-front
• Dis/locating the MY the school-setting
• Dis/locating the MY the gLoBaLiSeD world
• Dis/locating the MY the im/moral culture
• Make use of five before five comes unto you
• Your son/daughter is at five your master, at ten
  your servant, at fifteen your double, and after
  that, your friend or foe, depending on his
  bringing up ibn Karkas

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MY in the SW ToWaRd the FuTuRe 1

• The What, the where, the when, the who and the
  how of the future
• Search for Models Prophet Ibrahim (aw)
  (alfityah)
• Searching for Models Prophet Yusuf
• Searching for models Prophet Muhammad (saw)
• Al-mustaqbal a!Huna

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MY in the SW tOwArD the FuTuRe 2

• Knowledge (Islam and the Other)
  Creativity/thoughtfulness ethic/morality
• The World/wheel The Rim, the spoke and the axis
  the shariah, the tariqah, the haqiqah
• Confidence in Islam/the future for Islam
• Management of time what is important/urgent
  neither important nor urgent important not
  urgent urgent not important
• the difference between s/he that remembers Allah
  and s/he that does not

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Towards the Future of MY in SW tHe role of MSSN

• The MSSN History/Objectives
• The MSSN Structure and Hierarchy
• The MSSN Programmes IVC
• Where are they the Ark of Nuh, the Camel of
  Salih,
• the staff of Musa, the garden of Madyan, the
  Mosque of the Prophet?

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The IVC Site

• A Presentation by the Zonal
• Co-ordinator and Vice President National, Mallam
  Abdul Ganiy Akinosho

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departure