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Sheikh Abubakar Gummi: 13 Years After

By

Garba Isa

yekuwa@yahoo.com

As though  it happened only last year.

. But the hard fact is Sheikh Mahmud Abubakar Gummi the well known Kaduna based Islamic scholar died 13 years ago on Friday September 11 1992 in a London hospital.

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While he lived,  the Sheikh was a rallying figure to the Ummah especially during some of its trying moments. His life was an embodiment of worship to Allah The Most High and a service to humanity. He was not obsessed with materialism,  a cancer with afflicts  even some of the our most revered religious leaders today.

 When Gummi died at the age of 70 years in 1992,  his death was described as"  the end of an era".  John Paden (1986)  recalled that during the late  Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello's first pilgrimage  to Mecca in 1955,  Gumi served as translator for the Sardauna "since King Saud does not speak Engl