Islamic Reminder

Did you see the difference between the 2 statements?

(1) When he told us to stop from doing something (i.e. sins or haram matters), then we need to stay away from it, immediately quit it.

(2) But when he ﷺ told us to do something (i.e. the wajib / obligations), then we need to do our best to fulfill it.

In the first statement, the Prophet ﷺ didn’t say to do our best, rather he said to stay away from it.

The Prophet ﷺ said to quit it. Full stop. And when he ﷺ said this, then we need to believe that we *can* quit it, in shaa Allah. Yes, it may be difficult. Yes, we may have to struggle. But at the end of the day, we need to believe that we can survive without it.

Therefore, we should not say statements like the following:

“I won’t be able to live without this (haram) relationship.”

“I don’t think I can stop myself from watching this (haram) video.”

And from the mercy of Allah, the Prophet ﷺ said that when it comes to doing the obligations, then do our best. Why? Because we can never achieve perfection in doing the obligations as much as Allah deserves. For example, it is very difficult to attain 100% khushoo’ (concentration) in our prayers; and had it been mandatory upon us, we would be repeating our prayers throughout the day.

May Allah grant us wisdom and understanding of this Deen.

If you want to achieve success in life, keep your parents happy. Their Dua is the most powerful thing for you.
𝐀𝐥𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡!

MP for Yapei- Kusawgu and a former Deputy Minister for Power and Energy & Petroleum, John Abdulai Jinapor responds to President Akufo-Addo's attacks on him at Yapei on Friday.

Read his response below:

EXPOSING THE FABRICATIONS OF A NON-PERFORMING PRESIDENT

During the recent visit of President Akufo-Addo to the Savannah Region, the chiefs of the Yapei-Kusawgu Constituency sought to enquire from the President when he will fulfil his campaign promises of creating a new district out of the Central Gonja District and the establishment of a new Senior High school in the Kusawgu area.

In response, President Akuffo-Addo rather chose to throw wild and flippant allegations against me, John Abdulai Jinapor, for what he described as my inability to connect some 17 communities to the national electricity grid. As if that was not enough, he proceeded to accuse me of not helping to establish the Senior High school that he, President Akufo-Addo promised.

For the record, when I was appointed Deputy Minister for Energy and Petroleum, the Yapei-Kusawgu Constituency had only 4 towns connected to the national grid (i.e., Buipe, Yapei, Sankpala and Kusawgu).

By dint of hard work, the constituency currently has about 100 communities connected to the national grid as part of an aggressive national electrification programme under the John Mahama NDC administration.

So, Mr. President, if we have only 17 towns yet to be connected to the national grid, the critical question you should answer is what have you done so far to complement what you inherited? You cannot be sleeping on the job and blame others for your own failures.

More importantly, at national level, the NDC Government expanded access to electricity from 50% to 83.24%. This can be confirmed in Paragraph 463 of the 2017 budget as presented by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta: “Under rural electrification, 1,212 communities were connected to the national grid, increasing the national electricity access rate from 80.5 percent to 83.24 percent”.

President Akufo-Addo since assuming office and despite receiving over GH¢20 billion in ESLA Revenues, has only increased the access rate by a paltry 3%— from 83.24% to 86.63% as captured under Paragraph 810 of the 2022 budget: “In pursuit of H.E. The President's aspiration to achieve universal coverage of electricity by 2024, a total of 162 communities were connected to the national grid thereby increasing the national electricity access rate from 85.17 percent in 2020 to 86.63 percent in 2021.”

On the education front, President Mahama can be credited for the provision of three (3) Senior High Schools (Buipe Senior High, Buipe Technical and Mpaha Senior High) in the Yapei-Kusawgu Constituency.

It is an undeniable fact that under the leadership of President Mahama, the Yapei-Kusawgu witnessed the commencement and commissioning of the Buipe Cement Factory and the Sheanut Processing factory not to mention the ultramodern Buipe District Hospital.
Unfortunately, under President Akuffo-Addo, the Sheanut factory has been grossly mismanaged and run-down for some time now. No wonder he conveniently refused to visit Buipe, the district capital of the Central Gonja District.

For someone who failed to provide portable drinking water for his own people as Minister and MP, until President Mahama provided portable water for the people of Kyebi, the least President Akufo-Addo can do is to acknowledge the good works of his predecessor.

I wish to entreat President Akufo-Addo to crosscheck his facts in future before seeking to deceive the citizenry with concocted, unsubstantiated, and fabricated allegations.

Ghanaians are indeed suffering under the abysmal performance of the Nana and Bawumia government and the least they can expect from this non-performing government is to be truthful and honest with the facts.

John Abdulai Jinapor
Former Deputy Minister for Energy and Petroleum
26th August 2022

I wish!🥺
May you marry a good man, a soft-spoken man, a hard-working man, a wise man, a man who will help you get closer to Allah, a man who will teach you about Islam, a man that will make you better, a man who will understand you in every situation and a man that, no matter how mad he is, won’t hurt you intentionally, whether emotionally or physically. Ameen, Ya rabbul Al-Amin.🖇️🤍

Read it carefully 📖

May Allah place the love of Salah (prayer) in our hearts 💛

Opening for business

Assalamualaikum