By Tai Olaniyi
If geographers in their geographical dictum agree that, ” Everything in space is a geographical phenomenon”, it should then be emphatic to say that almost everything about man can be configured in space and time.
Time, though in mystical parlance is regarded as “The duration of consciousness”, it sort of proffers some elements of solutions as to why a phenomenon is what it is, how it is, where it is, when it is and according to who it is.
The geographical emplacement of what today is called Nigeria as well as other countries and continents of the world, surely will be under the auspices of the Creator as He created His creation, the cosmos, universe, the heaven above, planets and the earth wherein all of us creatures are made to germinate.
The Creator is so vast in His immensity to such an extent that no matter how from eons of time fellow mortals though have advanced religion as the means to worship God, diversionary and / or divisive attitudes obtain in modes, methods and how God be approached in religious perspectives.
In, and with such the emphasis that God be worshipped according to dictates of forebears once practising primordial traditions, later of colonial nature, post colonial, modern, foreign and what have you, the interplay of man in his abiotic and biotic environments and the modes of life and living cannever be obliterated in historical manners as they are also entrenched in politics.
The geography of the world and of any phenomenon therein cannot and never be explained solely through the eye of religion. Science, culture, philosophy and global politics and economic considerations are further proving man to be human,humane but most times deadly inhuman from past ages to the present.
Man’s inhumanity to fellowman worldwide is now more an object of ridicule thus creating the recurrence of the question as to “Does God truly exist in the lives of the world religious and political leaders in their geographic spaces and the expanse of where they occupy”?
Further to the aforementioned question has humanity been greatly enriched in happiness, peace of mind, universal love especially as they are being preached by the Christian and Islamic world in particular?
Here in Nigeria every attribute of religion when and if introduced to the geographical, political , economic and sociocultural issues greatly exhume the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the “Nigerian Factor “which brings about the demise of whatever remains as relics of unity , faith and patriotism amongst Nigerians.
The allusion to anything Nigerian and Nigeria is today always an unfortunate flair of dismemberment to Arewa North predominantly of Hausa-Fulani and Islam as the in and main thing.
The South also dismembered into Southwest and Southeast religious and sociocultural cadastral maps of Traditional,Islamic and Christian religious persuasions respectively.
The cartography and new cadastral maps of Nigeria are not insulated from too many disunifying forces as are
Spiced with politics and economic considerations in terms of the six zonal geographic areas of Nigeria.
Nigerian Factor as it is daily makes mess and upload the mismanagement of mineral,plant,animal and human resources to such an extent that the filthy rich ones get very ungodly richer in their affluence to the extent they thrive in the absolute degradation of the poor and pride in man’s inhumanity to fellowman.
The stinkingly rich Nigerians blindfold the poor by also using religion to deprive them of human capital development, of talents that God, the Creator of every living being, everywhere, has imbued in every creature no matter the geographic space they belong or claim to be their own and / or their religious disposition or the non of it.
Whereas as it is mentioned for the thinking cap to reason out that:
“God sleeps in the mineral,wakes up in plants,walks in animals and thinks in man”, would the Nigerian Factor in politics and religion makes Nigerians think,walk,wake-up and sleep in true reverence and almightiness of God?
As Henry Carpenter once mentioned in reverence and reference to God, “God I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee”.
Are we all Nigerians ready to think the thoughts of God within us after His pure and immense nature?
According to a Muslim mystic, “In pure and holy heart the true mosque is built and not the one built of stones”. Think about it.
How holy are Nigerians, how truly godly are both the rich and the poor that the novea rich daily use as whims and chattels in politics, political religion, banditry, kidnappings and terrorism for the sole aim of the rich getting richer and the poor deadly poorer? Think about it.
Many of our General Overseers and others in their lower hierarchies of Christian enclaves equally daily pride in sermons of money at all costs,,pentecostalism of affluence and tithes thus turning what used to be the booming warehouses, supermarkets and factories to churches including building stadia -like auditoriums with multiple dollars and pound sterlings beyond human imagination as to sources of such funds equally to the peril of the abject poor.
Little wonder Christ’s admonitions:
It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
The recent description of Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” by President Donald Trump,his usual claim of a harbinger of peace and his beatitudes of peace now enshrined in his “Board of Peace”, have today not proven him beyond a mere mortal taking cognisance of the raging wars and skirmishes of war world over where equally he tries to mediate.
This his numerous utterances and actions make more profound another admonition of Christ Jesus: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Our Lord Jesus Christ replicates beyond any human imagination a human epitome of unblemished “Peace” as such my humble advice to PresidentDonaldTrump to examine Oliver Goldsmith’s observation that, ” You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips”.
The Nigerian Factor has made glaringly clear the conviction of Dr. Kenneth U. Idiodi when he intoned that, “Religion has been politicised, Politics has been religionised while religion and politics have been Commercialised”. Think about it.
As the Nigerian Factor now and ever again cages us into the geographical and religious spectrum of who should or shouldn’t rule Nigeria as year 2027 fast approaches, are you, I and we daily moving forward in thoughts and conducts to build a more successful and sustainable virile Nation Nigeria in unity of positive and noble thoughts, words and conducts? Think about it.
Note too that neither America, Israel and its balderdash, Saudi, and Nigerians unending pilgrimage without the appreciation of the spiritual nature of circummambulating the Ka’aba, Iran and Turkey ,China, France and Russia shall save us Nigerians when and if we allow stupidity, selfishness and ungodliness lead us to genocide or holocaust just as climate change crisis ravages the entire geographic spaces of the world today.
There is no other living God the Creator of every living being, everywhere, outside of our being(s) if in earnest we individually seek the true and ever living God from within.
God is Omnipresent, everywhere, Omnipotent, all- powerful and Omniscient, All- Knowing.
This God and only God is one and only God for all as such,the endearing and enduring admonition of a Sufi mystic, “Look into your heart and you will find your God revealed”.
Master Jesus the Christ in his injunction to humankind: Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind and with your spirit” and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any commandment.But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love your neighbours,others as well as you love yourself.’
These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.”
Think about it. Read Matthew 22.
In this manner I humbly submit a Rosicrucian prayer,” God of our heart, God of our realisation, You, who dwelleth in the Light of Light, in the Light of Life and in the Light of Love in Thy Light may we see Light.”
May Light, Life and Love of our one and eternal God lead us all to Peace Profound.
Amen.
