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Between November 17, 2019 when it first broke out and December 31 when it was officially reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO), no one hardly suspected that a local disease outbreak in the Wuhan City in the province of China was on a threat mission globally. Within a short span of three months, it graduated from being a local epidemic to a pandemic in the brand name of Corona Infectious Virus 2019 (COVID-19) in February 11, 2020. In fact, the prediction never came. When it eventually hit Nigeria on February 27 as just one index case as usual and later gradually ascending into a rising curve, people became more surprised: How an event of this worrying magnitude had not made the list of the traditional annual new year prophecies of the ‘men of God’ for the year 2020! As at June, 13, 2020, there are about 225,126 confirmed cases in Africa and over seven million worldwide. Out of this statistics, Nigeria account for 15,181 positioning the giant of Africa 52 nd in the world in

There was a statement that if you want to hide anything for the contemporary Muslims, put it in a book. I cannot agree less. Ours is a generation who chooses comfort and pastimes above reading. Despite the plethora of information online and offline in our time, we are in no way chips from the old blocks compared with the early Muslims. They led as models because they were readers and thinkers. They thought for others and were never thought for. They were trailblazers and not dolls. Unlike us, they were not led along the way like a dog behind its owner. They were disciplined, ascetic and principled. As for us, we are being technically enslaved because we still hold on to ignorance when it is no longer popular among the living. In a digital age, a Muslim proudly announces his birthday without ever caring to find out about its origin. He floods the social media with the pictures of his kid, wife or parent who is a year older! It never occurs to him to explore the same internet to read