Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has reacted to the killing of a student in Sokoto for alleged blasphemy, stating that Prophet Muhammad of Islam did not attack or kill anyone who insulted him while he was alive.
Gumi, in a video clip obtained and translated by PRNigeria, said the prophet’s refusal to attack non-Muslims who were insulting him while he was alive, was because he did not want to be regarded as a killer.
“If we think by killing Deborah, people who are not of the same faith with us will stop insulting our prophet, then we are in delusion,” the cleric told a class in his Kaduna Juma’at mosque.
Deborah Samuel was lynched last Thursday at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto for allegedly blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad.
Gumi observed that the best way Muslims can show that they love Prophet Muhammad is by adhering to his religious teaching.
According to him, both Nigerian Muslims and Christians have agreed to live harmoniously together, hence 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 said.
