Over 14 million realized at Tikau emirate launching for Zaka, Waqt

By: Yahaya Wakili

Over fourteen million naira (#14m) was realized at the launching of the annual Tikau emirate council, Zaka and Waqf, #8.5 million cash in hand, #5.4 million pledges, and 264 bags of grains, respectively.

Speaking at the occasion, the special guest speaker, Dr. Warshu Tijjani Rabiu of Bayero University, Kano, said Zaka is the third pillar of Islam, and Allah (SWT) commanded us to pray and commanded us to give Zaka.

He said the nature of Zaka is very clear: there are those who receive it and those who are to pay it, as the different Hadith of Prophet Muhammad SWT explained the Zakatul items, the maximum resource upon which you reach it, or what you have in Zakat. There are some categories of zakat: wealth, agricultural produce, and animals.

 Waqf is a product of wealth for the seek of Allah (SWT) that yield the benefit to recent community for the person that give it, once he is alive benefit from that benefit of it, even after his death he will continue receiving reward from Allah (SWT), it is resilience lasting and benefit cut across all our and it is very much documented in the history of Islam for Waqf achieve during period stages and a golden period of Islamic history.

“So now in this period we are trying to revive these institutions because if you look into our lives, we are swimming in poverty, which is not and calls for artificial, man-made poverty, and when we go back to our religion, we have this instrument that we embrace, and then we wave poverty out of our society.

Dr Rabiu further said, Alhamdulillah Tikau emirate there have been working on this Zaka and Waqf for quite so long now and deceased emir, May Allah (SWT) grants the souls of the deceased rest in Aljannatul Firdaus. And now the new emir is building on it and we praying Allah (SWT) to sustained them.

Speaking earlier, the chief host, who is also the Executive Chairman of the Nangere local government council, Hon. Samaila Musa FCNA, said this program is a developmental program that will benefit the entire people of Nangere, not a few, because there is an aspect that has to do with Waqf and there is an aspect that has to do with Zakat.

He maintained that the two are different, the Waqf is a long term, while the Zakat is a short term, the Waqf aspect is differently for investment, how to make research, invest, and to manage your portfolio and even to talk about entrepreneurship development that entrepreneur development mostly has to do with youth and women.

“And if we are talking about youth, we have youth in Nangere, and we have farmlands. If we can allocate pieces of land to those youth and they are empowered through this waqf, definitely in two to three years, there will be no food insecurity in Nangere—not only food security, but nutritional food security.

In his vote of thanks, the former Deputy Governor of Yobe State and Madakin Tikau, Alhaji Aliyu Saleh Bagare, said, Tikau emirate council, the emir has gone and the emir has come, adding that since the establishment of Zaka and Waqf 23 years ago, now we have 45 Juma’at mosques across the emirate, and call on the new emir to continue with the legacy of his late father.

He call on the people of Tikau emirate council to embark on irrigation farming, because we have the inputs and this Zaka and Waqf was assist many people in the emirate, noted that, the late emir has done a lot during his life time.

Over 14 million realized at Tikau emirate launching for Zaka, Waqt