Renowned Islamic cleric, Sheikh Gumi, has said that Prophet Muhammad (SAW) during his lifetime, did not attack or kill people who assassinated his characters.

Gumi made this known while conducting a religious teaching class in his Kaduna Juma’at mosque.

He spoke while reacting to the lynching of a female Christian student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, over allegedly blasphemous statements on Prophet Muhammad.

The Kaduna-based scholar, in a video clip, said the Prophet’s refusal to avenge the insults of non-Muslims were raining on him while he was alive, was because he does not want to be regarded or tagged a killer.

Gumi said best way Muslims can show that they love Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is by adhering to his religious teaching, and obey him instead of killing people over trivial issues.

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The Islamic cleric reiterated that both Nigerian Muslims and Christians have agreed to live harmoniously together, noting that no religious law is applied in the country, being a secular state.

“Hence, anyone who kills a non-Muslim who they have agreed to live peacefully with, will not smell the fragrance of Paradise for 40 years,” he stated.

Gumi, while noting that no one is allowed to take laws into his or her hands in Islam, called on his fellow Islamic clerics to impart religious tenets to their adherents instead of instigating them to perpetrate “reprehensible” acts.

The Star