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TO GET SCARED OR SCARE OTHERS IS USELESS. NO NEED FOR IT

Fellow Nigerians

You might have received scare alert, text or audio or both from people abroad.

They tell you frightening stories of how coronavirus has beaten the world's best medical systems and killing in thousands! They cry forecasting a worse disaster in Africa and possibly, the worst in Nigeria. God forbid!! 

Fellow Nigerians!

Listen to me. That judgement is useless.

1. God is wonderful. By His power, how many few soldiers have defeated an army of hundreds. Moses won over pharaoh. David over goliath. God may show mercy to the Africans and Nigeria like He did to the children of Israel in Egypt. He may give us power over the scourge like He never gave the giant nations. He once gave us over Ebola.

2. Africans are very religious nations. Nigerians are possibly the most religious in the world. Like no other nation, we believe in fasting and prayers. Yes, we may be more religious than being Godly but God still answers the sinners. Satan prayed in Q7:14 'spare my life till the Day of resurrection' and God said: 'You are one of those spared' (Qur'an7: 15)

Let us keep the hope and the prayers. Many of the giant nations believe in strength not God. 

3. When God wants to prove His power to men, He starts with most powerful  part of their city to level the ego and even the pride. He says in Qur'an 11:82

'when our command came, we made the most elevated part (of the city) its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay'

God may want to take us to the school of humility through our powerfuls. We pray they learn and we learn as we look onto Him to stop the pandemic on their lands and on our land. 

4. Fear does no good. It does not change the situation. We cannot run anywhere. All borders are closed. Every one and every nation is in the same mess. Why the scare alarm. Why the panic?

We remember those who lost everything they had worked for because they left a part of the country where they had lived their entire life. They had a fear that Nigeria would break into pieces. The civil war never came and they became devastated. 

We heard those who jumped out of a car while on speed because the driver lost his control. They died on the spot only for the car to stop with no one else hurt.

Fellow Nigerians! 

The only solution is 3P's: patience, prayers and precautions as God says:

'seek my help with patience and prayers. Indeed, it is  difficult except for the truly conscious ones' (Qur'an 2:45)

' O you believe! Take your precautions(Q4: 71)

5. Let us believe and prepare our mind. Nothing happens to us except what the Lord has decreed for us. Do good and repent. As for the true believers, it is either of the two good: martyrdom or survival. 

Do not spread scares. Spread hope! God heal our lands, home and abroad. Forgive us for you are Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

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