INTRODUCTION
Who is this Shifu Kulmila?
He is/was to be the pioneer and or new face of halal comedy within the Muslim (predominantly hausa speaking) fraternity. A mission buoyed by social media especially whatsapp audio clips.
The only other comedian I had known before Shifu making waves in Ghana was Nigerian actor called “Ibro.” Even he usually starred in films before we could have a taste of his art.
We woke up to some form of comedy that started in the form of news, it got us cracking even though the joker, had decided to arrogate onto himself the title of “Sheikh” i.e. an Islamic scholar. Maybe the signs should have been clear back then.
The uniqueness of his trade and its delivery was with the use of the hausa language, something that is VERY rare at least within the Zongo communities.
The big question is, did we laugh about these too early and didn’t recognize that it was likely to degenerate into what we are witnessing today? The earlier we nip it in the bud the better.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
At the heart of Muslim protests and condemnation in the West is the cartoon depiction of our prophet (may Allah exalt his mention). Time without number, Muslims all over the world have joined to condemn same.
Other Muslims, who I support and pray for, kill the very people who DARED to mock our prophet (subhaanal Laah.) The message behind their actions being: “freedom of speech is not freedom to be STUPID.”
The guys at Charlie Hebdo and others like them went nowhere near ridiculing Allah, or Allah’s book the Quran. But that is what Shifu Kulmila has been doing lately and has gotten away with it.
I strongly support the few Shuyukh who have come out to condemn in no uncertain terms the rather crude types of jokes that shifu is spewing lately. Jokes that seek to ridicule the Quran (subhaanal Laah!)
INSTANCES
There is an audio piece of about four minute shifu talks about delivering a sermon on food. He messes up the several known Islamic prayers and make jovial allusions to Sharee’ah etc. That audio was SICK!
His social profile increased and he was invited to a number of events in the name of entertaining guests, I can mention the One Ghana Inter-School drama competition and his own show at Nima Paloma.
The latest audio, which is a grievous on his part, shameful on the part of all who listened and laughed and disgusting yet for those who took time to circulate it for purposes of sharing the fun.
That a Muslim would play with recitation of the Quran and make vile allusions to verses of the Quran; a Muslim ridicules an art of worship (supplication) as was taught us by Rasool?
That he ridicules how an Imam in the middle of prayer, began regretting how he had wrongly given out charity and his Muazzin followed suit. So what then became of the congregants. Is this a matter to be joked with? Salat??
The Islamic Ummah of Ghana (IUG) gathering at Efua Sutherland part here in Accra, in the presence of learned Muslims was where he stood to showcase gross disrespect to Islam, to himself and to Muslims at large. Sadly some laughed.
CONCLUSIONS
It begs common sense and smacks of hypocrisy that we sit by and do nothing about a fellow Muslim brother leading himself astray and dragging us all along that path as we laugh heartily over serious matters.
What would have been of such crude jokes, if the author was a non – Muslim, we certainly would have been incensed. He is one of our own and the earlier we STOP him the better.
There are so many things to make fun of, halal comedy has its place in Islam (topic for another day) and wal Laahi it would serve him better if he desists from using tenets of Islam in the course of his comedy.
Said Rasool (SAW) when you see evil, change it with your hand, tongue and heart. This first step is using the tongue, let whoever knows him advice the man to keep off matters of Aqeedah and Sharee’ah.
Wal Laahi I fear for him and for us all that we should not, cannot and would not accept that he continues on this tangent until such time that we are unable to stop kaafirs who decide to enter our mosques to ridicule us.
Even they won’t I strongly believe, so why should one of us. Unacceptable, unwarranted, unnecessary it is, may Allah have mercy on us and grant us Istiqaamah in all matters. Wa lil Laahil Hamdu, was salaamu Alaikum
Thanks for reading my thoughts
Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban
newcguide@gmail.com
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