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Photo credit: Daniel Ibrahim, ECWA Church Kaduna
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It was a good omen yesterday in the troubled city of Kaduna
State as Muslims and Christians embraced one another and reflected on the sour
relationship and the need to forge ahead.
The occasion was a visit by the Christians who donated
grains and other foodstuff to the Muslims for six mosques in Tudun Nufawa, near
Kaduna Polytechnic.
Both sides accused politicians and selfish Nigerians of
creating disharmony between them, and of being responsible for the spilling of
blood being experienced in Northern Nigeria and other parts of the
country.
According to Daniel Ibrahim, a member of ECWA Church on Lemu
Road who was in the Christian delegation to their host community, Reverend
Yunusa Sabo Nmadu Jnr. led the visiting delegation, which also included some
elders such as Engr. James Bawa Kufana.
Ibrahim who sent pictures and a brief account of the event to
SaharaReporters, “We were received by Malam Shuaibu Balarabe, the Sarkin Dutse
of Tudun Nufawa. We were many from our Church. Rev Nmadu explained the
importance of peace and that it is God in his magnanimity that created the
world as it is today. And [that] nobody can change it except if mortals are
[accusing] Him of imperfection. He told them that the food stuff are nothing
but a symbol of love and peace from Christians.”
The Sarkin Dutse, Malam Shuaibu Balarabe, welcomed the
Christians and reiterated that Islam is a religion of peace contrary to the
hate campaign, he said is being propagated without reason.
“We are not what is being said, and you know it,” he assured
the Christians. “Have we not lived
together peacefully in the past? Why now? Were we not practicing our religions
in the said glorious past?”
He further assured the Christians of their safety and
described the day as one of the happiest in his life.
The donation from the Christians included bags of sugar,
maize, millets and other grains.
It would be recalled that last month, over 50 young
Christians visited the Sultan Bello Mosque in the city and broke the Ramadan
fast with Muslim youths as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen unity, peace
and coexistence between both faiths in the troubled State.
There was also a cooperation accord between both faiths in
the city during last year’s election.
Photo credit: Daniel Ibrahim, ECWA Church Kaduna
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