This country has been invaded by so many criminals and charlatans, who profess to belong to all sorts of religious faiths, and yet their behavior and thinking do not reflect the injunctions of their faiths.
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By Daily Guide Ghana | January 31, 2013
Oman FM, a local radio station, recently carried a very interesting but worrisome story on its airwaves.
According to the story, a vehicular accident occurred somewhere in the Abetifi area of the Eastern Region involving some members of the Presbyterian Church.
The accident resulted in casualties which necessitated that the accident victims be conveyed to the nearest hospital. A Muslim who happened to be visiting a sick patient at the same hospital chanced upon the accident victims.
He learnt that the hospital was charging the accident victims fees around GH¢135.
It was Sunday and the victims pleaded with the hospital authorities to give them up to Monday to pay the fees.
When the visiting Muslim heard of the plight of the accident victims, he graciously and promptly paid the fees on behalf of the accident victims. The accident victims profusely thanked the Muslim for his kind gesture.
However, great wonders were yet to happen. As the Muslim left the hospital to drive home in his car, he was called back to the hospital. Apparently, the accident victims had been told that the Good Samaritan who had paid their hospital fees was a Muslim. They became disturbed and disheveled in their minds and souls to the extent that that they rejected the Muslim’s kind offer and asked him to take his money away. Apparently, they could not envisage how they could accept money from a Muslim to pay their hospital fees. Those accident victims, despite belonging to the Presbyterian Church, must surely profess to be Christians who must have read on many occasions the Holy Bible passages about the Good Samaritan and the injunction of the Lord Jesus Christ to mankind to love your neighbour as yourself. The action of the accident victims was supported by an elder of their church. However, a reverend minister of the church, in no uncertain terms, described the action of the accident victims as divisive and noted that it would not bring harmony among people of different religious faiths.
I was born into a family of Ahmadi Muslims and my parents were Muslims. However I spent all my formal educational upbringing in the Methodist Christian faith. My parents never had any formal education and therefore could not tutor me competently about the Islamic faith. Indeed, my father never forgave his father for not sending him to school. So my father insisted that everybody who came under his tutorage must have formal education sponsored by him up to any level that person’s talent could take him or her, whether the person was a relative or not.
Unlike my elder brother I. K. Gyasi, who had his secondary education at T. I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School in Kumasi and was therefore privilege to be educated in the Islamic faith, I never had that opportunity.
Despite our Islamic background, my family has produced one Methodist bishop and one Presbyterian bishop. Indeed, the current Presbyterian Bishop in the Kwahu area is my nephew. Once, he told me a very interesting story. One Sunday he took a taxi while on his way to the church to preach. He was fully robed in his evangelical cassock. As he got down from the taxi and attempted to pay the taxi driver, the taxi driver declined to accept the fare. Indeed, the taxi driver told him that it would be wrong to accept a fare from a man of God. My nephew then asked the taxi driver his religious faith. My nephew could hardly believe his ears when the taxi driver told him he was a Muslim. That was the first time he ever had a free taxi ride and it is possible most of the taxis he had taken must have been driven by persons who profess to be Christians. Yet, none had ever given him a free ride before. That day, he changed the theme of his prepared sermon and used his experience with the taxi driver.
This country has been invaded by so many criminals and charlatans, who profess to belong to all sorts of religious faiths, and yet their behavior and thinking do not reflect the injunctions of their faiths.
These criminals and charlatans occupy all the visible, viable, prominent positions in society.
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