Sultan Abu Bakar Among The Most Influential Muslims In The World

11 December 2009

By Babandi Gumel

Though the position is mainly ceremonial yet Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar the 20th Sultan of Sokoto wields great power and influence among the Muslims not only in Nigeria but the whole Muslim Ummah throughout the world.

In a new Book titled 500 Most Influential Muslims only seven people from Nigeria that included President Umaru ‘Yar Adua were included in the book published last Month.

The Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero as well as the former Nigeria’s representative to the International Court of Justice Prince Bola Ajibola and Latif Adegbite the Secretary General of the Jama’ati Nasril Islam managed to be included in the book’s most influential people published by the Centre for Muslim Christian Understanding at the Georgetwon University.

Apart from Sultan Abubakar not even President ‘Yar Adua could manage to make it to the top 50 most influential people as listed in the new publication.

Sultan Saad Abubakar was regarded as the 16th most influential Muslim in the whole World trailing behind Sheikh Abdulwahab the Ameer of Tabligh Jaama’a in Pakistan who emerged as the 15th most influential person in the Muslim world.

Sheikh AbdulWahab coincidently expected in Nigeria for annual Tablighi Ijtimah taking place in Ilorin this Weekend would be his second rare visit to Nigeria the last one which was in August last year.

He is well known all over the world from Asia Europe America Australia and the Middle East for his phrase the Muslims irrespective of their age gender should all repent for their sins and return to Allah for succour.

People would be surprise to know that influential leaders including Buhari Shagari or Babangida not to talk of other Governors such as Shekarau or Sule Lamido could not be included in the list of these most influential Muslims listed in the Year 2009 becoming like the Guinness Book of Record for the Muslim Ummah .

King Abdullah Bin Abdul Azeez of Saudi Arabia secured the most coveted position as the most influential Muslim in the whole World. The Supreme Leader of Iran Ayotallah Khameini is the 2nd most influential Muslim leader followed by King Muhammed Hassan V1 of Morocco.

The next in line to follow is King Abdullah of Jordan followed by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan then Sultan Qaboos of Oman is closely trailing behind them.

The Grand Ayotallah Ali Sistani of Najaf became the 7th most influential person in the World and the Grand Sheikh of Azhar Dr Tantawi took the eighth position in the list.

The famous often outspoken Sheikh Qaradawi the Ameer of the International Muslim Scholars took the 9th position of influence in the record.

The Grand Mufti of Egypt Dr Ali Gomaa managed to take the tenth position called Goma in Hausa. The Mufti of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Abdu Aziz Bin Abdullah comfortably secured the 11th position while Muhammed Mahdi the Ameer of Muslim Brotherhood Ikhwani Muslim of Egypt became Number twelve.

Two Muslim preachers Imam Effendi Fethullah of Turkey and prominent Television preacher and social activist Amr Khaled took the 13th and 14th positions respectively.

The publication the first of its kind was intended to highlight the movers and shakers of the Muslim World which was broken into 15 categories that included leaders, scholars and many prominent Muslims all over the world.

Few among the Muslims that secured place among the top fifty included Sheikh Ahmad Tijjani Ali Cisse the Leader of the Tijjaniya Sufi Group in West Africa.

One interesting thing Sheikh Hassan Narillah the Leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon came after Sultan Saad Abubakar as the 17th most influential person in the world.

Sheikh Muhammad Bin Rashid Makhtoum the Prime Minister of the Emirates Ruler of Dubai managed to secure place among the fifty top most influential persons as Number 21 in the list and Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkhia secured the 24th position while President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt or Colonel Gaddafi of Libya could not make it to the top like ‘Yar Adua.

So therefore Sultan Saad Abubakar has become the most influential Muslim in Nigeria a position well deserved.

All those who managed to make it to the top list had their pictures published and printed except the leader of Tabligh Jamaah Sheikh Abdul Wahab whose picture was not available instead the pictures of thousands of Tablighi followers on their way to Ijtimaah in Bangledesh was printed in the Book.

Wa Akhiri Daawana Anil Rabbil Hamdu Lillahi Alameen.*

 

 

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