Sheik Muhammadu Amin Okene Was Key to Knowledge

Before the birth of Sheikh Muhammad Amin, none of his father’s children survived infancy. It got to a point where some of his fathers wives divorced him because they couldn’t cope with the recurrent mortality.

Sheik Muhammad Amin 

One of his school mates at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies Lokoja Malam Muhammad Sodangi of the FCT Judiciary narrated one incident that made the entire school recognize the genius in Moulana Sheikh Muhammad Amin Abdullah.

He said there was an important book that the students were required to read but it was not available in the library. It was only one student in the school that had the book and he rarely lent it to anyone. According to Sodangi, Moulana Sheikh Amin had a chance meeting with this student one day and pleaded to have a glance at the book which the boy obliged. Moulana Sheikh Amin glanced through the book for less than 20 minutes and memorized everything, reproduced it (writing) and made a copy available in the library for the use of others. Sodangi said after that incident, it dawned on the entire school that a genius was born.

Sheik Muhammad Amin 

Sheikh Ibrahim Ahmad Sudan, his student and the man now in charge of his monthly ta’alim in Okene, described Moulana Sheikh Amin as a complete walking Islamic university with all the faculties and departments intact.

He said apart from memorizing the Qur’an at Azhar in 1983 and several books of hadith, Moulana Sheikh Amin also memorized the most difficult book on Nahwu, a book of poem with one thousand lines called Alfiyatu bn Malik. According to him, Sheikh Amin also committed to memory a book of logic (mantic) called Main Sullam by Akhdari and the famous book of eulogy of the prophet called Burdatu Madheeh by Imam Busairi.

His influence spread far and near. His base in Zaria and Okene was a hub of scholarly activities.

Sheik Muhammad Amin 

Moulana Sheikh Amin’s influence on the youth was profound. He taught them true Islamic Knowledge, the etiquette of disagreement in Islam, comparative analysis of Muslim Societies, Da’awa methodology, tafsir, tasawuf, hadith, the love of the prophet, humility and forgiveness.

He was the voice of peace in ebira land and the only scholar that every clans listened to.

Though an adherent of the Tijanniyya order, he was the bridge builder between the sects in Ebiraland. He averted many crises between the Tijanniya and Izala sects in Ebiraland. He had the courage to speak the truth to the powers that be without being loud and arrogant. He loved Ebiraland so dearly, even though most of his life is in Zaria. Zaria people till date talk about him as if he is an indigent from Zaria City  in Kaduna State.

May Allah's peace and Blessings be upon him, Moulana Sheikh Muhammad Amin (RTA)

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