24/03/2025
๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฏ๐จ๐จ๐๐จ๐จ, ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ
The Muslim communities have been taking sides following the outburst of the Murdir (leader) of popular Islamic school, Markaz Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies situated in the Agege area of Lagos State, Sheikh Muhammed Adam (El-ilory), who accused popular cleric, Sheikh Sulaimon Farooq, popularly known as Onikijipa, of masterminding his recent sickness through diabolical means.
Adam made this allegation on Sunday while speaking at the institutionโs 2025 Ramadan Tafseer Programme.
Tafseer comes from an Arabic word, โfasara,โ which means the exegesis or commentary on the Quran, and aims to provide explanation, interpretation, and context for a clear understanding of Godโs will.
The Markazโs leader said he had always renounced treating personality but issues, stressing that this yearโs Ramadan lecture would explain the feud between him and Onikijipa.
According to him, the Kwara-based cleric who is always addressed as mufti (an Islamic jurist) had always pointed an accusing finger on his father (late Sheikh Adam) for not including his fatherโs name in the list of the noble clerics he mentioned in one of his books.
Before the lecture, Adam had challenged Onikijipa to be his subordinate while claiming that the latter came to his fatherโs institution to learn when he was already lecturing there.
He said, โI had finished an advanced class, gone to Kano State to learn more and returned to Markaz for lecturing after my father insisted that I stay before Sulaimon Farooq resumed Sanawiโyah Idadi (elementary) class. Who am I fighting with? How can he be saying Sheikh Adam (my father) offended him? The offence is that my father listed all the noble Islamic clerics in one of his books and refused to mention his father.
โWhoโs even his father? His father is not the heir of the Onikijipa lineage.
