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  • Incredible Pension!

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    The messenger of Allah, Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, visited a man from among the Muslims who had fallen severely ill and he asked him, “Did you use to ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta’ala, for anything specific?”

    He replied, “I used to say: ‘Oh Allah, whatever you were going to punish me with in the hereafter, punish me with it in this world instead.’”

    The Prophet, Salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said, “Glory be to Allah, you can’t bear that. Would you not say: ‘Oh Allah, bring us good in this world, and good in the hereafter, and save us from the torment of the fire’?”

    It is said that Yusuf ‘alayhi salaam, after being in prison for a long while, said, “Oh my Lord, you have placed me in prison for a long period of time.”

    Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala responded, “You asked for prison so we gave you (prison), and had you asked for well-being we would have granted you well-being.”

    It is mentioned in the Qur’an as the speech of Yusuf ‘alayhi salaam: “Oh my Lord, prison is more beloved to me than that which they (the wife of the Azeez and the women of the city) call me to.”

    Recall, how many times you have uttered something similar?

    Imam Al-Mawirdi said, “Your trials are a consequence of that which you utter.”

    Be careful with your words, be careful with what your tongues utter, because you will be confronted with what you say. Therefore, choose the best in what you seek from Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and ask Him to give it to you in this world and the next.

    In a story which Sheikh Ali At-Tantawi narrates, he says: ‘I was a judge in Syria, and it so happened that a group of us were spending the night with one of our friends when I suddenly found it difficult to breathe and felt severely suffocated.

    I sought permission from my companions to leave but they insisted that I stay the night with them. But I couldn’t, and I told them I want to take a walk and inhale some fresh air. I left them, walking by myself in the dark, whereupon I heard the sound of someone weeping and praying coming from behind a small hill.

    I looked and found a woman who appeared to be in distress and misery. She was crying effusively and praying sincerely to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala.

    I approached her and asked, “What is it that is making you cry, my sister?”

    She replied, “My husband is a harsh and unjust man. He threw me out of the house, took my children and swore I will never see them again, and I have nobody and no place to go to.”

    “Why don’t you take this to a judge?” I asked.

    She continued to cry profusely, “How can a woman like me approach a judge?”’

    The sheikh completed the story, crying, ‘The woman says all of this but does not realise that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala had dragged a judge (meaning himself) by the neck to take him directly to her!’

    Glory be to Allah! Who ordered him to leave in the darkness of the night? To stop directly in front of her with his two feet and ask her, he himself (as a judge), about her needs?

    What supplication did this simple, poor woman make to have it answered with this speed and in this manner?

    Oh you who feels distressed and miserable, who thinks that the world has become dark around him, just raise your hands to the sky, and do not say “How can my problems be solved?”

    Rather, humble yourself in front of He who hears the footsteps of the smallest ant.

    Be certain, be certain that there is something awaiting you after your patience.

    Indeed, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala does not try you with anything except that there is good in it for you, even if you are certain of the opposite.

    Soften your heart and be glad.

    Were it not for trials and tribulations, Yusuf ‘alayhi salaam would have been spoiled on his father’s lap, but with trials and tribulations he became the Azeez of Egypt.

    Do you still feel distress and misery after knowing this?

    Be upon certainty that there is something awaiting you after your patience, something which will delight you and make you forget completely the bitterness of all pain.

    Oh Lord, whoever opens this message or hears it, open for him the blessings of the provision of the heavens and the earth, and whoever spreads it among Your servants, admit him into paradise without reckoning and punishment, and dispel, oh Lord, his worries and anxiety.’
    Ameen! .

  • Kamala Harris Drops U.S. 2020 Presidential Ambition Over Lack Of Funds

    (Flowerbudnews.ng)  After launching her presidential campaign with a splash in Oakland, California, less than a year ago, California Senator Kamala Harris has made an equally stunning exit, telling supporters that she does not have the resources to continue her 2020 bid.

    “I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign.

    “And as the campaign has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete,” Harris wrote in an email.

    An early favorite in the race, she drops out two weeks before her home state is slated to host the sixth presidential debate in Los Angeles and exactly two months before the Iowa caucuses, where her campaign had increasingly focused its efforts.

    Although Harris was lagging in polls in California, her departure from the race is likely to shake up the primary contest in the state, which votes on March 3, also known as Super Tuesday.

    She had the majority of endorsements from political officials in California and close ties to the state’s vast donor network.

    California Governor Gavin Newsom was slated to campaign for Harris in Iowa next weekend.

    On Tuesday, he tweeted, “@KamalaHarris is exiting the way she entered – with grace, grit & a love for America.”

    Harris’ establishment support could now fall to some of the more moderate candidates in the race, like former Vice President Joe Biden, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, or South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg – the only candidate to outraise Harris in California in any quarter of 2019.

    Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is also targeting California as part of a campaign strategy focused on Super Tuesday states.

    Harris’ relationship with California’s Democratic donor base makes her financial troubles even more startling.

    And it underscores how important it is in the 2020 race to build a small-dollar online donor base, the way Democratic primary rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have.

    After spending much of the summer attending high-dollar fundraisers, Harris saw her polls slip and refocused on campaigning in the fall.

    Initially, her campaign was focused on South Carolina, the first state with a large African American population to vote in the Democratic primary.

    But Harris failed to make a dent in Biden’s lead with African American voters in the state.

    As her funds dwindled, her campaign laid off staff in its Baltimore headquarters, New Hampshire and other states and shifted its focus to Iowa. It was not enough.

    “In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.

    “So, to you my supporters, it is with deep regret – but also with deep gratitude – that I am suspending my campaign today,” Harris wrote in an email.

    It’s a steep fall for someone who was once touted as the “female Obama.”

    As Harris often noted during her presidential campaign, she had been counted out in her previous races for San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, only to fight back and notch surprising wins.

    She was the first female and first person of color elected attorney general in California and the first African American and Indian American the state elected to the U.S. Senate.

    Even before she arrived in Washington in 2017, Harris was being hailed as one of the Democrats’ top presidential prospects.

    Her campaign launch in Oakland in January 2019, where she introduced herself as a “progressive prosecutor,” drew a crowd of more than 20,000 people.

    But Harris struggled to reconcile her presidential campaign rhetoric with some of her decisions as a prosecutor and attorney general.

    Her difficulty addressing questions about her record on criminal justice, as well as her waffling on health care policy, reinforced her reputation as overly cautious and hurt her with some in the party’s liberal base.

    A sharp exchange with Biden in the primary’s first debate last June drew attention to Harris, and rocketed her into the top tier of candidates in national polls.

    But the momentum didn’t last.

    Political observers have blamed a lack of clear message or core political identity.

    “Kamala Harris had a really good beginning and a sugar high after the first debate.

    “What’s her big argument” for being president?,” said Bob Shrum, a longtime national Democratic strategist who now serves as director of the Centre for the Political Future at University of Southern California.

    But “I’ve never been able to figure out what her campaign theme is.

    Shrum said in an interview before Harris dropped out of the race.

    Steve Maviglio, a Sacramento, Calif.-based Democratic consultant who served on Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, said the Harris campaign’s initial primary strategy – focusing on states in the South as well as California – made sense “on paper.”

    But “the overall strategy never clicked, she never clicked.”

    Maviglio, however, said this is unlikely to be Harris’ last stand in national politics.

    “She’s basically a rookie when it comes to the national stage and she’s young and ambitious.

    “It would not shock me to see her take another run at this, whether it be in 10 years or six years from now,” he said. (dpa/NAN)

  • FG undertaking 524 highway, bridge projects nationwide –Fashola….80 Projects prioritized, to enhance ease of doing business

    ..43 Federal Tertiary institutions benefiting from rehabilitation of internal roads, 10 already completed

    The Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola SAN, has updated the Federal Executive Council on the ongoing road and bridge construction/rehabilitation projects nationwide, highlighting 80 of them as priority projects scheduled for completion in the 2020-2021 fiscal year. (more…)

  •     Justify Sanwo-Olu’s wage increase, Razak tasks Lagos workers

    Public sector workers in Lagos State have been charged to redouble their efforts to boost productivity and render selfless quality services to Lagosians in order to reciprocate Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s approval of N35, 000 new minimum wage for them. (more…)

  • MURIC slams Moghalu for stopping mosque building

    An Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) h0as slammed the new Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr. George Moghalu, for allegedly issuing instructions for the stoppage of the construction of a mosque in the agency’s Warri area office. (more…)

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  • Police confirm alleged attack, killing of 2 cops in Anambra

    (Flowerbudnews.ng) The Police command in Anambra have confirmed the death of two police officers, allegedly attacked and shot by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) at Oraifite in Ekwusigo council area of the state.

    The command’s spokesman, Mr Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Monday.

    Part of the statement read, “on the 2/12/2019 at about 11:30 am, there was a formal complaint against one Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a member of the proscribed IPOB in Oraifite on alleged case of abduction, assault occasioning harm and malicious damage to property.

    “Following the report, police patrol teams, led by the Area Commander, Oraifite, Mr Oliver Abbey, mobilised and rushed to the scene in order to arrest the suspect, who declined police invitation.

    “However, as soon as police arrived at the house, armed men, suspected to be IPOB members, descended on the police, set ablaze one patrol vehicle and attacked them with rifles and machetes.”

    Mohammed stated that two police officers, whose identities were being withheld, were killed by the IPOB members, while others received machete cuts.

    He said that the injured operatives were taken to a hospital for medical attention.

    “Consequently, the command deployed reinforcements from the state headquarters, comprising PMF, Special Anti-Robbery Squad and Special Anti-Cult Units, in conjunction with the army and other sister agencies.

    “The area has been cordoned-off in order to fish out the culprits, while joint patrol are still ongoing in the town to prevent further breakdown of law and order,” Mohammed added.

    He further noted that some arrests were made and that the Commissioner of Police, Mr John Abang, had visited the scene and vowed to bring the perpetrators of the dastardly act to justice. (NAN)

     

  • Queen Elizabeth Claims She Is Direct Descendant Of Prophet Muhammad’

    Queen Elizabeth Claims She Is Direct Descendant Of Prophet Muhammad’

     

    (FLOWERBUDNEWS) Queen Elizabeth has begun claiming she is a direct descendent of Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and has instructed BBC News to begin pushing this idea in the Muslim world, according to BBC staff.

    The extraordinary move by Queen Elizabeth has sparked fears the Illuminati are in the final stages of preparing to use Islam to usher in the New World Order, with the House of Windsor at the apex of the pyramid.

    Claiming to be the 43rd great-granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, the Queen cited the genealogical guide to royalty, Burke’s Peerage, for proof of her claims.

    A portrait of young Elizabeth II (1926- ) of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, wearing the crown of the kings and queens of England for her coronation in June of 1953.

    According to Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke’s Peerage, the British royal family is descended from Mohammed through the Arab kings of Seville, who ruled an Arab caliphate in Spain after the death of Muhammad.

    At its peak, the caliphate ruled over territory from the Caucasus (Eurasia) to the Iberia Peninsula (Muslim Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar).

    LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 15: Queen Elizabeth II arrives at St Paul’s Cathedral for a service of Thanksgiving held in honour of her 80th birthday, June 15, 2006 in London, England. (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)

    It was the fifth largest empire in history, governing 62 million people (29% of the world’s population at the time). Muhammad’s blood passed directly through this lineage to the European kings of Portugal and Castille, and through them to Queen Elizabeth, via England’s 15th century King Edward IV.

    Queen Elizabeth II of England at Balmoral Castle with one of her Corgis, 28th September 1952. UPI color slide.

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    Undated picture showing the Royal British couple, Queen Elizabeth II, and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with their two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne.

    BERLIN, GERMANY – JUNE 24: Queen Elizabeth II arrives for the state banquet in her honour at Schloss Bellevue palace on the second of the royal couple’s four-day visit to Germany on June 24, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. The Queen and Prince Philip are scheduled to visit Berlin, Frankfurt and the concentration camp memorial at Bergen-Belsen during their trip, which is their first to Germany since 2004. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

    Here’s the ancestry of Queen Elizabeth in full, courtesy of Burke’s Peerage:

    Elizabeth II, Queen of the UK – daughter of
    George VI, King of the UK – son of
    George V, King of the UK – son of
    Edward VII, King of the UK – son of
    Victoria, Queen of the UK – daughter of
    Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn – son of
    George III, King of Great Britain – son of
    Frederick, Prince of Wales – son of
    George II, King of Great Britain – son of
    George I, King of Great Britain – son of
    Sophia, Electress of Hanover – daughter of
    Elizabeth of Bohemia – daughter of
    James I/VI, King of England, Ireland & Scotland – son of Mary, Queen of Scots – daughter of James V, King of Scots – son of
    Margaret Tudor – daughter of Elizabeth of York – daughter of Edward IV, King of England – son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York – son of Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge – son of Isabella Perez of Castille – daughter of Maria Juana de Padilla – daughter of Maria Fernandez de Henestrosa – daughter of Aldonza Ramirez de Cifontes – daughter of
    Aldonza Gonsalez Giron – daughter of
    Sancha Rodriguez de Lara – daughter of
    Rodrigo Rodriguez de Lara – son of
    Sancha Alfonsez, Infanta of Castile – daughter of Zaida (aka Isabella) – daughter of
    Al-Mu’tamid ibn Abbad, King of Seville – son of Abbad II al-Mu’tadid, King of Seville – son of Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad, King of Seville – son of Ismail ibn Qarais – son of
    Qarais ibn Abbad – son of
    Abbad ibn Amr – son of
    Amr ibn Aslan – son of
    Aslan ibn Amr – son of
    Amr ibn Itlaf – son of
    Itlaf ibn Na’im – son of
    Na’im II al-Lakhmi – son of
    Na’im al-Lakhmi – son of
    Zahra bint Husayn – daughter of
    Husayn ibn Hasan – son of
    Hasan ibn Ali

  • Electoral Process Has Failed In Nigeria – Former INEC Boss, Attahiru Jega

    (FLOWERBUDNEWS)Jega stated this on Thursday, November 14th at the University of Ibadan, UI, while delivering 2019 Convocation Lecture titled, “Towards Credible Electoral Process and Sustainable Political Systems in Nigeria: What role for Universities”.

    He said, “All over Africa, and indeed, to some extent, throughout the developing world, the electoral process is failing to entrench good governance and stable and sustainable democratic political systems as a result of what can be termed as a deficit of electoral integrity”.

    According to him, deeply embedded unwholesome practices, such as use of money, violence, incumbency powers, and a range of electoral malpractices and fraudulent activities in the electoral process grossly undermine its utility as a vehicle for liberal democratic development.

    He revealed that dominant political classes can, and often do, hijack the electoral process through various means, to access power for selfish and self-serving objectives, rather than for democratic development that would satisfy the needs and aspirations of majority of the citizens in the country.

    “In virtually all cases, ritualized elections, which lack integrity merely serve to legalize, if not ‘legitimize’, access and control of power into executive or legislative arms of government by people unconcerned with, or indifferent to, the requirements of sustainable democratic development.