Blasphemy: You’ve renounced Islam if you defend Kano singer — cleric
An Islamic cleric has said any lawyer who defends the Kano State singer, Yahaya Aminu Sharif has renounced his Islamic faith.
Recall Daily Times Nigeria reported that Sharif was recently convicted by a Sharia court for blaspheming against the Prophet Mohammed in a song.
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The cleric with name Sheikh Abubakar Usman Mabera affirmed this in an event on Saturday saying a competent sharia court in Kano has sentenced the Kano singer to death for blasphemy.
Also, a chairman of Sokoto State Ulama Forum of Izala, he noted that blasphemy in Islam is a capital punishment whose punishment is death, saying, “As a Muslim, the law applies to the singer.
The cleric who is also the Chief Imam of Malam Buhari Dan Shehu mosque in Sokoto called on Muslim lawyers to be careful in defending the convict, insisting,’ any lawyer who comes out to defend him has renounced his Islamic faith.
According to him, since a competent sharia court in Kano has established the fact that Sharif has insulted the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW), there is no way other than for him to subject himself to the punishment prescribed by Allah.
The Islamic cleric then called on the people to go back to their creator and seek for His forgiveness, saying, all these calamities bedeviling the country are signs of our wrongdoings.
‘For all indications, God is not happy with us and we have to repent because He alone is the answer to our woes, he declared.
Recall, the Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has said if within the stipulated time the convict did not appeal he would sign his death sentence. Sharif has since appealed the judgement.
