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Qur’anic Aqidah Narratives as Effective Tools in Evolving Prototypical Contemporary Muslims: A Study of North-West Nigeria

This paper examines the relevance of Qur’anic Aqidah narratives as effective tools in evolving prototypical contemporary Muslims in North-West Nigeria. Thus, the relevance, lessons and reflections in these narratives are ought to be imbibed or embraced by the Muslims in the study area. The facts that these Aqidah narratives are not provided for fun and pleasure then should be studied for guidance. The Glorious Qur’an exhorted Muslims of all ranks to learn the narratives of the past nations who are punished for their evils and those who are guided by Allah when they accepted His message. Perhaps, these narratives are geared towards appreciating virtues for emulation and identifying vices for avoidance; for they are centered on Islamic morals and spiritual uplift of Muslim societies. In order to demonstrate the relevance of these narratives among the Muslims within the study area, the paper solicits information from the questionnaires administered within the North-West zone, primarily among the academic staff of state and federal universities. Muslim scholars who conduct Tafsir within the zone as well as prominent elites/personalities were also served with questionnaires to fill in addition to interview, where necessary. The paper however, is strengthened with information sourced from the literature to buttress important points digested and to reinforce the data collected from the field. In an effort to achieve the objective of this paper, one hundred and seventy (170) questionnaires were distributed within the four states of the zone namely; Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna and Kano. This is due to the fact that these states are, in the opinion of the researcher, citadels of learning than their (remaining) counterparts within the zone. Out of these questionnaires, one hundred and thirty-seven (137) were returned leading to a rate of 80.5%. Data obtained were therefore analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages). The results were presented from tables 7.1 to 7.33