Muslim News Nigeria by Muslim News Nigeria December 14, 2020
Nigerian Muslims prepare to bury Pastor Oyedepo’s stepmother, who died a devout Muslim

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We are monitoring the itinerary of the corpse from Ibadan to Omu-Aran – Prof. Oladimeji
Nigerian Muslim community have continued to shower encomiums on the late Alhaja Aasiyat Oyedepo, the stepmother of popular Nigerian Pastor, David Oyedepo, who died on Sunday, December 13, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The late Alhaja Aasiyat didn’t only die as a Muslim, reliable sources said she pronounced the Kalimah Shahadah on her death bed, in spite of obstacles she reportedly faced from relatives who wanted her to convert to Christianity.

The news of Pastor Oyedepo’s stepmother broke on Sunday by a Fulani Muslim, Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde, in an article, titled, ‘Farewell to a Yoruba, Muslim Princess’, and has become the most trended discourse among the Nigerian Muslims especially from the South West region.

While many on social media platforms, are openly praising her resilience in the face of difficulties, the Omu-Aran Muslim community led by Bar Abidoye in conjunction with the Chief Imam of Ansar-ud-Deen Central Mosque, Alhaji Sa’ad have began plans to give Alhaja Aasiyat a befitting burial in line with Islamic rites.

Muslim News findings revealed that the Janazah is slated for 1pm (Nigerian time) at the Ansar-ud-Deen Central Mosque in Omu-Aran area of Kwara state.

The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof. Abdul Lateef Oladimeji confirmed the development in an exclusive interview with Muslim News.

He said the remains of Alhaja Aasiyat has left Ibadan where she died on Sunday, adding that, “we are trying to be careful the way we manage information; as well as mobilisation for the burial. This is strictly a religious matter and should be handled with all caution.”



“We are also reaching out to Barr. Abidoye and Alhaji Sa’ad. We’ll try as much as possible to get her a befitting Islamic burial, in shaa Allah by 1pm on Monday considering the traffic from Ibadan to Omu-Aran. If that’s not possible, we have made provision for possible alternatives.”

When asked about why it may not be possible and the possible alternative, the former Deputy Vice Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University said the two children of the late Muslimah are Pastors; adding that they might kick against plans to bury their mother Islamic way.

“The possible option is Solatul Al Gaib, if it becomes difficult for us to bury her according to Islamic rites. This is because the children of our late mother are pastors. They took her to Ibadan and they’re with her corpse, as they headed to Omu-Aran. So, it is not likely they will release the corpse to us.

“There is no problem about that. If the burial doesn’t work, we will observe solatul gaib for her in Omu-Aran, Ilorin, and we have also called on Muslim brethren in Lagos to organise same in her name. In all, we thank Allah that she died as Muslim and she was able to say the kalimah before her death. Alhamdulillah,” he added.

Describing the late Aasiyat, Prof Oladimeji said she was resilient up to the last of her breath

May God grant her soul rest.

May HE also console the Oyedepos.

Unfortunately , she going to hell

pharmagba:
Unfortunately , she going to hell

Heaven's secretary.

May Allah overlooked her shortcomings & make Al Janna Atul Firdausi her final abode

Ok

alasane:
May Allah overlooked her shortcomings & make Al Janna Atul Firdausi her final abode

Allahumo Aaaamin

May God grant the family the fortitude to bear the loss. Amen.

pharmagba:
Unfortunately , she going to hell

Unfortunately, also many Christians including anointed ministers.

alasane:
May Allah overlooked her shortcomings & make Al Janna Atul Firdausi her final abode

There is No Prayer For The Dead!

annyplenty:


There is No Prayer For The Dead!

I agree.

Except the prayer to bring them back to life otherwise it is finished.

jesusjnr2020:
I agree.

Except the prayer to bring them back to life otherwise it is finished.

You are right, sir.

Lol.. Nothing wey Muslims no go wan take trend. Someone is dead and dey are more fixed on the fact dat she's a muslim. As expected dey would tell the world about how she faced tribulations for being a Muslim but wont tell the world if she had always been a muslim or converted to Islam from Christianity. Make una jus shut up and bury the dead.

:May Allah overlooked her shortcomings & make Al Janna Atul Firdausi her final abodeAllahumo Aaaamin

annyplenty:


There is No Prayer For The Dead!

According to your shallow thinking and low reasoning

pharmagba:
Unfortunately , she going to hell

Hell gatekeeper is sighted

Nbotee:
Lol.. Nothing wey Muslims no go wan take trend. Someone is dead and dey are more fixed on the fact dat she's a muslim. As expected dey would tell the world about how she faced tribulations for being a Muslim but wont tell the world if she had always been a muslim or converted to Islam from Christianity. Make una jus shut up and bury the dead.

Have you ever seen this before you talk gibberish

Komolafe89:


Have you ever seen this before you talk gibberish

So why didnt U and ur muslim community shame the Pastor by helping out the woman? Some of u are funny... David Oyedepo grew up in a polygamous and mixed religious home with his own mother being a Christian (white garment church specifically) and suddenly he is supposed to be the benefactor of his Muslim step mother he barely even know considering he was raised by his grandmother.. How about her own children? Did dey also abandon her like U and other muslims did?

Nbotee:


So why didnt U and ur muslim community shame the Pastor by helping out the woman? Some of u are funny... David Oyedepo grew up in a polygamous and mixed religious home with his own mother being a Christian (white garment church specifically) and suddenly he is supposed to be the benefactor of his Muslim step mother he barely even know considering he was raised by his grandmother.. How about her own children? Did dey also abandon her like U and other muslims did?

it shows that you didn't even read the write up before you spitted out your ill thought.
just have this to quench your ill thirst
Adieu to a Yoruba, Muslim Princess

I will start with a footnote on the billionaire Bishop, David Bello Oyedepo. He was born a Muslim, named Hasan by his father Bello Oyedepo. His mother was a Christian who converted to Islam when she married Bello. Bello had three other wives. After his higher education, Hasan became David. He instantly became a strong, aggressive and successful Christian activist. With his stupendous wealth, he reverted his mother to Christianity; then his father and brothers; then all except his three stepmothers who stuck to their guns and died Muslims. The last of them—Aasiyat— is the subject matter of this piece.

I set out searching for her in late 2013 when I read about how Bishop Oyedepo allegedly prophesized that she will die a miserably poor woman unless she converts to Christianity, like most other members of his family. Muslims on social media were shocked by the Bishop’s utterances.

After reading about her, I set out to meet her in 2013. I visited the headquarters of the Living Faith Church in Iyana Apaja, Lagos. Someone in a nearby mosque told me that the native home of the Oyedepos is in Omuaran, Kwara State. I drove to Ilorin the following morning and arrived Omuaran during Juma’ah congregation. After the prayer, I met the leaders of the mosque, introduced myself and asked about “Bishop Oyedepo’s sister who refused to convert to Christianity.” They became sceptical and started to interrogate me. They even brought a Fulani herder to confirm that I was indeed Fulani.

Finally, I was handed over to one brother, Bello Saad Bamidele, with whom we drove a short distance before arriving at the Oyedepo family house. Behind the front block was a flat in which a woman in her sixties was living. Bello entered and announced our arrival. After she was ready, I was ushered into her parlour. She was shy, full of smiles, but few words. She spoke only Yoruba; so Bello was very handy at the time and on my subsequent visits to her.

I did not want to open fresh wounds especially giving her shy nature; so I avoided asking her about her relationship with David. Instead, we focussed on Islam. I told her that it saddens other Muslims to learn about the pressure on her to convert to Christianity and salute her resolve to remain Muslim. I expressed the solidarity of other Nigerian Muslims with her and recounted the testimony that God gave about her namesake, the wife of Pharaoh, who kept her faith in the face of difficulties and, before God, became a symbol of faith who prayed to Him for a house in Heaven and rescue from Pharaoh and oppression.

Before I left her that afternoon, I asked Aasiyat if she had a request before the Muslim Ummah. She smiled and dropped her head for a while. Finally, when she gathered the courage to open up, she giraffed and whispered into the ear of Bello, who, having heard her request, shouted Allahu akbar! “What did she say,” I enquired, impatiently. He said, “She will love to fulfil her lifetime ambition—a pilgrimage to Mecca.” Look! She did not ask for money. Not a house or anything material. But just a spiritual journey. I told her that it was a modest request and we will pray that God grants it..

Alhamdulillah. He did. By the time the Hajj season commenced in 2014, I got in touch with a great sister, Fatima Afolore Jimoh, the then Secretary of the Pilgrims Board in Ilorin. She assured me of a seat and helped a lot to see that things went well. I linked her up with Bello in Omuaran and all arrangement were completed. The scheme nearly got k-legged when Aasiyat’s sons and other family members discovered she would travel to Mecca. They started agitating against it but we were faster, alhamdulillah. � We quickly ‘abducted’ Aasiyat from Omuaran, shipped her to Ilorin and hid her in a house until her day of departure to the Holy Land. Kudos to Fatima. What a great sister she is!

Aasiyat performed her hajj successfully without any hitch and returned from Mecca a very happy Muslim. She was all smiles when I visited her. She held a ceremony, thanking God for that. The Muslim community of Omuaran continued to support her especially when she fell sick lately. When we spoke last Monday, Saad told me she has recovered from a severe sickness. This morning, he told me that she relapsed and taken to a hospital in Ibadan, where she died last night. The most interesting part was that she was blessed with the Kalimah as her last word. Mashaallah!

And so was the end, here, for her. I salute her resolve to live by her conviction as I saluted the Boko Haram abducted girl—Liya Sharibu—who refused to convert to Islam as demanded by her captors. Aasiyat and the two cowives that died before her chose to remain Muslim. That is the power of conviction. She would have succumbed to the pressure from her two sons—surely the dearest to her heart—both of whom are now pastors, converted to Christianity by Bishop Oyedepo. No. She chose God over man and the Hereafter over the temporary glitters of this world. She died committed to her choice, a symbol of faith and conviction.

Sister Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo, the Princess of Islam, will be buried tomorrow afternoon in her native town of Omuaran. Our sincere condolences go to the Muslim community of Omuaran and Kwara State in general, to all those who anchored her in faith, including Bello and Sister Fatima. Our condolences also to the Oyedepos, including the Bishop David. May he soon revert to Hasan before he leaves the glitters of this world behind. Amin yaa Rabb! � Nothing is beyond Him.

May the Princess of the Faithful, Aasiyat, meet in Heaven the symbols of faith—her namesake and Virgin Mary—where they will together dwell in the gardens and rivers which their Lord promised the righteous:

“Lo! The righteous will dwell among gardens and rivers.
Firmly established in the favour of a Mighty King.” (54:54-55)

Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde
Bauchi
13 December 2020

alasane:


According to your shallow thinking and low reasoning

A bitter pill is always difficult to swallow.

Thank you and God bless you.

thank GOD they said her two children are pastors, e shock u abi e no shock u?

Just like Asiyat, the wife of pharaoh who resisted false worship and paganism as championed by Pharaoh. The Asiyat of our time resisted false glitters and the Pastor Adeboye.

May Allah reward her with Jannatul Firdauz.

pharmagba:
Unfortunately, she going to hell

Not according to Jesus Christ. So long as she never believed in Jesus Christ, she has no place in Hell. Only those who believe in Jesus Christ can end up in Hell.

He could not convert her

Adeboye couldn't convert her to false worship. Allah is Supreme Almighty.

The amount of wealth and private jets is far from being successful and poverty is not a negation of Allah to his servants but a test.

Pharaoh left Pyramids and enormous wealth and Mosses left no worldly trace.

Pharaoh's abode is Hell. Both Moses and Asiyat abode is paradise.

May Allah reward her the highest level of Jannah.