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Appraisal of Islamic and Scientific Historical Context on Modern Challenges
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-01-01) Abubakar, Usman; Adamu, Tanko Isah; Ahmad, Rufa'i Tijjani
The paper aims to appraise the Islamic and scientific historical achievements and how they both made impact on the level of successes in the society in the mist of modem challenges. This paper adopts library research method for composing the analysis narration. The descriptive approach is the main tool in explaining the data. The study revealed that all thought not guided by true, authentic, and universal knowledge is uncertain and therefore unauthentic. The paper concludes that in Islam there is no science for the sake of science and no knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Everything is for an end which is using scientific knowledge for the good ot humanity at large
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APPRAISAL OF THE ISLAMIC POSITION ON FOOD CRISIS
(Department Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2017-04-01) Mainoma, Hauwa'u M.; Abubakar, Usman
The rate at which the world facing the problem of food crisis has reached an alarming rate, practically, the impact of this problem has taken a disturbing dimension the effect of which is viewed as deathly. Islam as a way of life has made provision for tackling every human problem. Contributions of reputable is Islamic scholars around the world in the area of similar challenges have useful suggestions. Reports from experts, professionals, stakeholders and mass media have confirmed that everyone is feeling the impact in various markets around the world and are responding to the challenge in their peculiar ways in order to escape its deadly effects. The target of this article is to inform as well as educate the people in all walks of life on need to carefully examine this global challenge along the Islamic point of view. The article concludes that it is the duty of everyone to use every available means to curb such a global issue by way of adopting Islamic measures.
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAMIC LAW AND COMMON LAW IN NIGERIA: CASE STUDY OF ADULTERY AND THEFT
(Department of Islamic Studies, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2015-04-12) Abdullahi, Adamu Sulaiman; Ahmad, Loko; Abubakar, Usman
The colonial rulers pursued a policy, which aimed at curtailing the application of Islamic law. The legal and judicial system they enshrined and the institution they established were governed by rules, which were structured to achieve the said objectives. The legislature of the country as well as the courts ensured that English Law was promoted at the expense of Islamic and Customary laws. Despite the achievement of Independence in 1960, the trends have not being changed. This paper highlights the objectives of Shari'ah and also attempts a comparative analysis of the Islamic legal system and the English Law within the Nigerian context especially as its relate to the punishment of adultery and theft and it implication. The paper proffers some useful suggestions for the purpose of peaceful co-existence and national understanding and co-operation.
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CONTEMPORARY STUDIES OF AL-MAQASID AL-SHARl'AH ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS RELEVANCE TO SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NASARAWA STATE
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-10-01) Abubakar, Usman; Shafa, A. Yunus
Islamic scholars agreed that Islam has the ultimate goal of being merciful to humanity. This is the primary purpose of Maqdsid al-Shariah. To achieve this goal it is necessary to promote human well-being. The main purpose of this study is to examine the role of Maqdsid al-Shari ah in the protection and development of human intellect among secondary school students in Nasarawa State towards moral. scientifiCy and spiritual attainments. The study utilizes a descriptive design that allows exposition of the elements for the preservation of human intellect from all forms of evil to the development of a scientific mind in the secondary school students of Nasarawa State. The study reveals that Jive fundamentally universal objectives namelyy religion, life, intellect, lineage and property are parts of the ultimate objectives of Islam which are to seiwe human interests and save them from harm. The principles of Maqdfid al-Shari ah can be applied to protect as well as develop secondary school student's intellect. The study recommends the learning and teaching of Islamic law be encouraged among secondary school students in Nasarawa State to ease for them its inculcation in all aspects of life for personal, state and national development.
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The Development of Arabic and Islamic Education in Africa (Focus on Nigeria): Progress and Prospects
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2015-02-02) Abubakar, Usman
Islam came to the place now known as Nigeria several centuries ago. Hence, before English Lan-guage, Arabic Language and Islamic education have dominated many cultures of Nigeria. However, government recognition of this has been very slow. This paper documents how Arabic education came to Nigeria and its development. The paper particularly analyses the current problems that this language and religious education is encountering at present, including, lack of unified syllabus, lack of qualified teachers, lack of relevant texts, low enrolment of students, the lackadaisical atti-tude of few students and the uncared attitude of even the government. The methods adopted are historical and analytical. Suggestions were made on how to develop Arabic and Islamic education in Nigeria.
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EFFECT OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG MUSLIM YOUTHS IN AKWANGA L.G.A. TO NATIONAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-03-03) Mainoma, Hauwa'u M.; Abubakar, Usman
Drug abuse is the illegal application and administration of drug without the permission of a qualified medical practitioner for the purpose of deriving satisfaction other than what the substance is meant for. Drug abuse has become a global problem. This paper investigates the effect of drug abuse among Muslim youth in Akwanga L.GA ofNasarawa State and proffer Islamic solution. To direct the study data collection based on quantitative analysis with the aid of frequently distribution table and simple percentages were used. The devices used for data collection was questionnaire. To analyse the data, statistical table op the number of respondents was used. Results from the data analysis showed a significant association of Muslim youths in the study and its advice effect on National security. The research recommends that, to have a society free of drug abuse, Muslim parents should do their best in giving their children the right manner of upbringing in accordance with Islamic principles and serious attention should be giving to control the distribution of illicit substances within the society. Muslim leaders in the community and in the mosque should always include this problem in their Friday sermons in order to discourage Muslimyouths from engaging in drug abuse so as to have a secure society and nation at laig
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THE ESSENCE OF MORAL VALUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATION: AN APPRAISAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES APPROACH
(Department of Islamic Studies, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-01-01) Yahaya, M.; Abubakar, Usman
Development in terms of infrastructure and other material needs is certainly among the prime requirements of man but attainment to peace and objectives of creation is the most impressive of all The world is experiencing destruction of life and wealth, which is not far from inclination to materialism and loss of consciousness of the Lord that is attached to almost every profession. Thus, infiltration and violation of human values are not subject of concern. People drive their leisure in creating commotion that could endanger the lives and wealth of millions. This animalistic behaviour is as a result of divorcing moral values, which Islamic studies aims at installing. The Islamic studies contention of development is the promotion of consciousness of the Lord which upholds human values, sanctity of life and uncontaminated means of attainment of them. This position of Islam drives its guidance from the unparalleled contributions made by Islam when it reformed the corruptible world and taught the world the essence of morality. In view of this, this paper is designed to carefully study the approach of Islamic studies in establishing the true meaning of development. Theory testing based on statistical methods are very limited. Therefore, this paper concentrates on testing the theorized relationships in the Islamic approach using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structured Equation Modelling (SEM). A sample of Islamic Studies codes of conducts is involved in the collection of data using a pre-designed questionnaire of Chapra (2009) framework. The paper proposes Structured Equation Model of Islamic codes of conducts that will provide useful insights in making socio-religious policies and measuring the compliance of citizens with the socio-religious policies. The findings of this paper shows how objective are the Islamic principles to national development. The paper therefore recommends the utilization of Islamic codes of conducts in the legislation of policies aimed at achieving positive results in national development
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Factors Responsible For Low Performance Among Primary School Pupil In Keffi Lga
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2017-03-09) Abubakar, Usman
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The Islamic Appraisal of Substance Abuse among Muslim Youth in Akwanga L.G.A. to National Security and Sustainable Development in Nigeri
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-01-01) Mainoma, Hauwa'u M.; Abubakar, Usman
Drug abuse is the illegal application and administration of drugs without medical prescription by a qualified medical practitioner for deriving satisfaction other than what the substance was medically meant for. Drug abuse has become a global problem. This paper investigates the effect of drug abuse among the Muslim youth in Akwanga L.G.A of Nasarawa State and proffers Islamic solutions. To direct the data collection based on quantitative analysis, frequency distribution and simple percentages were used. The device used for data collection was a questionnaire. To analyze the data, a statistical table of the number of respondents was used. Results from the data analysis show a significant association between substance abuse among the Muslim youths in the study area and its adverse effects on National Security. The research recommends that to have a society free of substance abuse, Muslim parents should attempt to instil in their children the right manner of upbringing following Islamic principles and attention should focus on controlling the distribution of illicit substances within the society. Muslim leaders should intensify efforts toward sensitizing the Muslim youths on the dangers of abusing drugs
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JUXTAPOSING THE POSITION OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION IN SHARIA
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2017-10-11) Adam, Ibrahim Ishaq; Jafar, Abdullahi; Abubakar, Usman
One of the striking and strangest innovations; or that, which could be called a developmental civilization is 'artificial insemination7. It is a means of procreation, other and quite different from the natural and notorious way of begetting children. This medium emerged due to certain barriers that may prevent a man having not, the ability to impregnate his wife, to use this scientifically designed medium to bear him a child. The couples bid to uphold the sacred injunction of procreation is not far-fetched as celibacy was out-rightly disregarded under Islamic law (Al-Asqalani 324). However, the religion of Islam has left no stone unturned as it prescribed certain rules that serves as a check on this medium of procreation. Hence, with much ado on its legality, it is the responsibility of these writers to distinguish between what is not lawful under the religion of Islam and that which has been made lawful by the Westerners, all in the name of Civilization. The most important of which is the artificial insemination through the donors and such rights due to the children from this medium among other worthwhile issues to be discussed therein. The study found that the Islamic law accepts 'insemination7 as far as the semen is collected from partners who are legally married. However, Shariah decries or detests artificial insemination by -a donor (where semen is collected form a third party) the effect of which attributed the child bore to his mother. He could, as a matter of law inherits his mother and not the sperm donor. This is simply because there was no valid marriage contract between the duos. In effect, the study recommends that the National/lhe States Houses of Assembly and with particular reference to the states that operates Shariah Legal System, should pass a law to proscribe or criminalizing all forms of donor insemination in both private and public hospitals as its consequence under Islamic law affects at a great deal, the legitimate right of any child bom to live, be it in the natural sense or through the modem means ‘artificial insemination' to inherit.
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MANAGEMENT OF ECONOMIC RECESSION IN ISLAM THE NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2018-10-01) Mainoma, Hauwa'u M.; Abubakar, Usman
Global financial crisis is basically the failure of the capitalist economic system. This system has justified economic practices that are in conflict with Islamic economic system. Islam is an ideology that is derived from Allah SWT. Therefore, only the Islamic system which is able to save the world from destruction. Destruction of the global crisis that occurred in the beginning of the United States has an impact on all sectors, especially the financial sector. This can be resolved by removing the usury system, the implementation of the currency system based on gold and silver and that must be removed are non-real sector by closing the stock exchange and commodities transactions, the just distribution of market economy and market transparency
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MAQASID AL-SHARlAH ON THE PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN INTELLECT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA
(Department of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-10-10) Abubakar, Usman; Murtala, Aremu Muhibbu-Din; Liman, Sa'adatu Hassan
slamic scholars agreed that Islam has the ultimate goal of being a mercy to humanity. This, in fact, is the primary purpose of Maqasid al-Shari'ah. To achieve this goal it is necessary to promote human well-being. The main purpose of this study is to examine the role of Maqasid al- Shari'ah in the protection and development of human intellect among secondary school students in Nasarawa State towards moral, scientific, and spiritual attainments. The study utilizes descriptive design that allows exposition of the elements for the preservation of human intellect from all forms of evil to the development of a scientific mind in the secondary school students of Nasarawa State. The study reveals that five fundamentally universal objectives namely, religion, life, intellect, lineage and property are parts of the ultimate objectives of Islam which are to serve human interests and save them from harm. The principles of Maqasid al-Shari'ah can be applied to protect as well as develop secondary school student’s intellect. The study recommends the learning and teaching of Islamic law be encouraged among secondary school students in Nasarawa State in order to ease for them it inculcation in all aspects of life for personal, state and national development.
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NEXUS BETWEEN NON-INTEREST BANKING AND CONVENTIONAL BANKING: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA
(Deoartment of Islamic Studies Education, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2018-04-04) Hassan, Umar Umar; Mu'allimu, Aminu Kambari; Abubakar, Usman
The private and public sector of the economy benefit from the activities of banks. A banking system that has generated interest of recent time is the non-interest banking. This study examines the lending and administration of non-interest banks, data were collected from ten different states and were analyzed using Wilcox on signed ranks test. The study found that there is no significant difference in loan administration between the conventional and non-interest banks. It is also found that there is no significant difference in the level of acceptance of the two banking systems. In line with the findings it is recommended that as long term financing requires expertise which is not available, more avenues to train and create awareness on the system should be embarked upon. Also it is recommended that for non-interest system to capture more market, more non-interest banks that are fully fledged should be established. This will force the banks to be innovative and competitive compared with conventional banking in Nigeria. Key words: Islamic banking, conventional banking, Nigeria.

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