TRIBUTE TO LATE NAJIB ALIYU YUNUSA

TRIBUTE TO LATE

NAJIB ALIYU YUNUSA

(1982 - 2012).

BY:

MUDASSIR ALIYU YUNUSA

NTA ZARIA

mudassiray@gmail.com

Innalillahi wa inna ilaihir rajiun, Allah (SWT) Said in the Holy Qur'an: "every soul must teste the death", It has been often  said, "nothing you love is lost, but this is not real especially when it comes to life and death. Life can never stay the same, no matter how/what our hands can never stop the clock of life from moving forward and People pass away before, sooner or later. That is really what Allah, the creator ordained it to happen. But the things that ever circulate in people's mindset are the memories of death sticked to our hearts before our time come too.      For the loss of someone you know especially an intimate to you, is very painful and  the sorrowful time must still be fresh always and your memory will never pause in reading, thinking, reflecting and assuming what you have being doing for the time being together.

As for me and my late brother NAJIB ALIYU YUNUSA, we grow together among our peers, we were enrolled into primary school together, the same day, the same time, the same school,  during long break we ate the same food and we played together in the short break period respectively. After closing hours we stayed in the same waiting point where our school bus used to picked  us back to our home. As for home activities, we equally have being doing things in colaboration like reading, home work, playing, washing, ironing and other things. The most interesting thing is that in senior secondary school(Rumfa College) we were even merged in the same classroom taken lessons from the same teacher under the same roof simultaneously, Infact from childhood to adolescent age we did almost every thing in common, we share the same room and bed for more than 20 years up to the time when I was asked to answer the clarion call in Borno State, and subsequently before the end of my NYSC he was transferred to Abuja from kano, that was the time we were forced to apart by nature but our intimacy still remain closed up to the time when he finally departed this world.

Born in Tarauni ward the then Kano Municipal, (now Tarauni Local Govt) Kano, on 19th May, 1983. NAJIB started his early islamic education at Mallam Bature Qur'anic school Tarauni and Da'awah Islamiyyah, Sulaiman crescent both in Kano. Enrolled into Magwan Model Primary School in 1990. He obtained his Junior Secondary School Certificate (JSCE) from Govt Junior Secondary School Sabuwar Kofa(1998) and later proceed to Rumfa College Kano where he gained his Senior School Certificate (SSCE) in 2001. He got admission into Federal College of Education(FCE Kano) the same year and obtained NCE in Business Administration in 2005. He started working with Sani Brothers Petroleum Ltd, as a Cashier in 2007 and later promoted to filling station Manager at Abuja, a position he heldsway untill his death, and at the same time he joined University of Abuja to obtain B.Ed in languages.

A gentle, courageous and industrious person with a sense of humour and determination, Najib has done very well especially in the course of discharging his duties as a Manager, he influenced the offer of appointments to many people particularly our neighbors in the company he was working.

By the time our relationship and intimacy became matured and so cordial to the extend that I used to hang up waiting for him to come and pick me in  Kaduna or Zaria on his way back from Abuja to Kano, the journey on several times became so interested, it gave us an  opportunity to discuss much concerning ourselves, our family and  other issues of that moment. By the will of Allah the almighty, suddenly death took him forever away from us on Friday 18th May, 2012. (Exactly 5 years today). His family members, friends, class mates, colleaques suffered serious pains with his demise. His simplicity, level headed, respect to elders, kindness to friends, jovial to children, justice to subordinates, fairness to neighboors, straight forward to all, industrious to work, dedicative to religion and above all fear of Allah are his excellent qualities that make me to shed tears always I think of good times we spent together.  My unflinching love, endless prayers remains always for you till the time we will join you in this genuine and real journey.

He died at the age of 30, one day prior to his birthday (19th May 1982 to 18th May 2012). He left behind one wife, a son (Ahmad Najib), his parents and 19 brothers and sisters.

May the repose of His gentle soul rest in perfect peace. May Allah continuosly give us the courage and fortitude to bear this irreparable lost of our dear brother. Once again, I pray by the grace of  Allah by now you have  secured first class apartment in Jannatul firdaus and may we meet you there as inmates.

Allah ya kyautata makwanci dan uwa.

MUDASSIR Write from NTA Zaria.

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