MSSN Founders Day Memoir: Unveiling Our Purpose – By Tawfiq Agbaje

Sometimes, one can’t help but wonder at the wisdom of our fathers and mothers, whom Allah SWT guided to establish the MSSN. May Allah SWT lighten the graves of those among them who have moved on and continue to sustain those still alive on the path of Islam. They truly embarked on a visionary journey that has been a source of good to many Muslims. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Aalameen.

As I walked through the IVC camp today, on our celebrated founder’s day, I can’t help but find myself engaging with the question. Why are you here? Why, at your age, are you still in MSSN?

While I ponder this question, I raise my eyes to the skies and observe the overhead electricity cables (worth several millions) championed by one of us about a year ago. It occurs to me that this must be one of the reasons why we are here.

I remember the Ummahaat who completed their first building about a year ago and are currently constructing the foundation of a second building in the neighborhood of 5m (foundation only), and my mind says mmmm, this must be one of the reasons why we are here. To walk the path of our heroes past and lay a solid foundation for our future.

I turn around at the Female clinic building worth multi millions, championed again by just one of us, and now the reality of why we are here begins to settle. To work in support of the future of MSSN. I see several other projects, including the ongoing Think Tank building, which did not exist 12 months ago but is already a beauty even in its uncompleted state.

But my mind remains unsettled. Are we here simply because of infrastructure? Then I remember Ummah Zakat and Sadaqah Foundation, which has been giving out millions every year since its establishment about 5 years ago to indigent students and the needy spread all over Nigeria. I remember that the foundation also runs an emergency support program that has benefited many people in their hours of need, apart from the big Program it just started offering N250,000 loans to deserving PhD students under the management of one of our professor brothers. Now, isn’t why we are here sinking in?

Now to the wonderfully wonderful. One of our professors is also working with his team to turn the whole site into a university. Like a joke, like a joke, the talk started, they engaged NUC, NUC listened to them, and the process has continued. Doubting Thomases still exist, but all our successes have been achieved in the presence of internal and external doubts, so nothing is more usual than that anyway. May Allah crown this one too with success.

Lest I forget, UZSFNg needs your Zakat & Sadaqah. Prof Oladosu and his team are doing a wonderful job laying the foundation for something great in a sustainable way.

I widen my thoughts and remember that today, many of our branches own schools with population in the neighborhood of a thousand students. Not half baked schools but schools whose output are top performers in external exams at national levels. Would you remember the young lady that monopolized LUTH graduands awards a few years ago. She is our product. No, not a product of a school owned by one of us. A product of our school. A product of our brains, our staying. Many of our branches now own cooperative societies already financing businesses in the neighborhood of 50 million naira.

As for why we are still here, I trust you have answered it for yourself, and you are glad Allah SWT granted you the opportunity if you are one of those who are here.

We are here, walking in the beautiful path of our heroes past to lay a solid foundation for our future generations.

Now, should we have gone elsewhere to build some of these things? Not a terrible idea. Just that we would rather join hands in nurturing this collective home of ours. The home that itself nurtured us at a time we were Islamically ignorant.

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Aalameen for the opportunity to still be here. Let’s continue to join hands to build a bright future for our future generations.

Jazaakumullaahu Sirs and Mas for continuing to be here working together for the benefit of our children. Our future.

*Engr Tawfiq Agbaje
MSSN B-Zone Think Tank Coordinator

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