Sheikh Abubakar Usman Mabera, the Chairman of Sokoto State Ulama Forum of Izala has made his position known over the conviction of Kano singer who allegedly made a ‘blasphemous’ song against Prophet Mohammed.
Buttressing his points, the cleric who doubles as the chief Imam of Malam Shehu Buhari Dan Shehu Mosque in Sokoto said that the conviction secured by the Kano Shari’a Court against singer, Yahaya Aminu Sharif is in accordance with the dictates of Islamic religion and that any Moslem lawyer who defends the convicted man in court has automatically renounced his Islamic faith.
He noted that blasphemy in Islam is a capital punishment whose punishment is death, saying, “As a Muslim, the law applies to the singer.
According to him, since a competent sharia court in Kano has established the fact that Sharif has insulted the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW), there is no way other than for him to subject himself to the punishment prescribed by Allah.
The Islamic cleric then called on the people to go back to their creator and seek for His forgiveness, saying, all these calamities bedevilling the country are signs of our wrongdoings.
‘For all indications, God is not happy with us and we have to repent because He alone is the answer to our woes, he declared.