UNILORIN don tasks Nigerians on good conducts

Nigerians have been urged to increase their good deeds, so as to scale up the quality of lives and earn bountiful rewards.

A Professor in the Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Prof. Hussein Kehinde Okoro, made the call at a public lecture.

Hussein disclosed that good conducts protect the righteous from calamity hereafter, affirming that the reward is enormous, adding that the upright would be free from fear and grief.

Speaking at the Non-Elective conference of The Companion, an association of Muslim men in business and the professions, Kwara District, he however gave warning on consequences of bad conducts.

He said in life, the effects include: removal of blessings in hereafter, recompense like for like, self as witness, no excuses, punishment and regret.

He also warned that except Allah forgives through repentance, the ultimate consequence is in the fire.

While quoting several Quran verses and traditions of Prophet Muhammad, Prof Hussein cited the scholars verdicts on good deeds.

He summarized: “The reward is of the same type as the deed   If you cover people’s faults, Allah covers yours. If you help the poor, Allah helps you. If you are arrogant, Allah humiliates you.

 “No good is wasted: Even a smile, removing harm from the road, or a kind word is sadaqah and is recorded”.

 The academic declared that no evil is too small, as admonished with another Hadith, which states: “Do not belittle any good deed and do not belittle any sin.”