{"id":284,"date":"2025-05-08T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/?post_type=article&#038;p=284"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:56:55","slug":"conformity-versus-syncretism-in-maqbarah-cemetery-amongyoruba-muslims-a-case-study-of-okutala-town-moro-localgovernment-area-kwara-state","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/article\/conformity-versus-syncretism-in-maqbarah-cemetery-amongyoruba-muslims-a-case-study-of-okutala-town-moro-localgovernment-area-kwara-state\/","title":{"rendered":"CONFORMITY VERSUS SYNCRETISM IN MAQBARAH (CEMETERY) AMONGYORUBA MUSLIMS: A CASE STUDY OF OKUTALA TOWN, MORO LOCALGOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Death cemetery at home and in the Mosque premises is one phenomenon among Yoruba Muslims in Southwestern Nigeria. It has generated unwholesome controversy among Ummah. While some people opined that a Muslim can be buried beside his home as the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was buried in his wife apartment. Others denounce it, as it is the prerogative of Prophets of Allah. The Yoruba Muslims with regards to belief in both living and dead form one communion are divided into two, a section among them believed in the phenomenon, another section however opposes it and denies it occurrence. This study is both library and field-based method. The paper, contextualizing the phenomenon within the framework of Islamic orthodoxy, attempts reconciliation between the two opposing views. Coupled with the fact that having cemetery beside the home had been grossly abused among Yoruba Muslims, which is against the tenet of Islam. It is discovered that the prevalence of social ritualist in our modern day Yoruba land is one of the contributing factors to burial of Muslim corpse at home. Hence, the study therefore recommends that religious leaders proffer adequate safety and security at the Muslims graveyard in order to reduce the threat of burying Muslim corpse at the graveyard. The study concludes that the best place to bury a Muslim corpse should be the Muslim\u2019s graveyard as it has been stipulated in the early history of Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdf-viewer-block-standard\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uploaded-pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/p3.pdf\" data-width=\"\" data-height=\"\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death cemetery at home and in the Mosque premises is one phenomenon among Yoruba Muslims in Southwestern Nigeria. 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