Explore Your Talents, Invest Before Retirement, Muslim Teachers Charged at Alimoso MUTAN Ramadan Lecture

Muslims teachers have been implored to harness their talents in order to cope with the economic challenges facing the country.

Delivering this year’s Ramadan lecture of the Muslim Teachers’ Association of Nigeria (MUTAN) held at the Alimoso Grammar School, Sheikh Ahmad Raji charged them to make use of their Allah-given talents to improve their lots.

Sheikh Raji also encouraged them to make provision for their retirement.

He however charged them to guide against greedy acquisition of wealth at the expense of the members of the public.

He attributed the current economic hardship in the country to the tendency to greedily acquire and accumulate property at the expense of others.

According to hm, Muslims have to go back to the economic system sanctioned by Allah, saying the current economic systems ignore spiritual aspect.

He also advocated the use of Zakat to empower people saying the emphasis should be on teaching how to fish, not giving them fish.

‘Zakat is meant to empower people. Let us use it to establish farms, shops and factories, schools which will make people to be productive.
‘People should use their natural endowments to be useful and productive’, he said.

The MUTAN Chairman for Alimoso Zone, Mr Rasaki Abolaji, in his address implored all Muslim teachers in secondary and primary schools to take active parts in the affairs of MUTAN.

While deploring the lukewarm attitude of primary school teachers in the zone to MUTAN, He appealed to secondary school teachers who know Muslim teachers in the primary schools to help appeal to them to come on board.

‘MUTAN is not only for secondary school teachers. We want the primary school teachers in our fold’, he said.
He also charged Muslim teachers to support Muslim female students who put on Hijab saying Hijab is a constitutional issue which has come to stay.
The event also witnessed conferment of award on deserving Muslim teachers who have put in meritorious service.

The awardees include the former State MUTAN state secretary, Alhaji Hassan Agbaje, Alhaja Aulat Ojeleye and Alhaja Falilat Oyewole