Transcript Future of Muslim Youth in South Western Nigeria

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)
Initial Problematics: Categories and
Trajectories
• Knowing The Muslim Youth: The Modernist
(The Rim of life)
• Knowing the Muslim Youth: The
Karikasas/traditionist (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”
Southwestern Nigeria
• Agon of Globalization
• Melting Pot of/for Chris-Lam-HerbAtheists
• 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-mar’u la min aythu yulad; bal min aythu yujad…
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
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
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”
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?
The IVC Site
• A Presentation by the Zonal
• Co-ordinator and Vice President
National, Mallam Abdul Ganiy
Akinosho
departure