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Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
We have sold 76 units of properties in Jarus Homes in 4 years of existence.
Checked the distribution of home-based vs diaspora Nigerian buyers.
Conclusion: Both domestic and diaspora market are equally important to real estate in Nigeria.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
Orunmila has actual origin, place, family lineage connected to him till date...
He's really an historical figure not mythical.
His philosophy, teachings, epistemology are all encoded within Ifá literary corpus, which are Oral and passed.
Did Socrate write? ✍️
This lie is of a strong and genuine brand.
Since there is little to no documentation of Orunmila’s thoughts, philosophy, teachings, and worldview compared to Socrates, how can you be 100% sure there is “no difference between” them?
Besides, Orunmila is a quasi-mythic historical figure in Yoruba origin tales, more like Romulus or Abraham in role.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
Oh my God! Why did I even forget about this?
Could it be the Alfas practicing Tẹ̀ Yànrìn that you guys are confusing with Ifá?
Local Islamic scholars (Alfas) in Yorubaland have a well-known practice called Tẹ̀ Yànrìn (printing on sand). This is the actual Yoruba name for Arabic sand divination (Khatt al-Raml). The Alfas spread real sand on a board and draw marks to read astrological patterns.
You guys are completely confusing two separate things:
1. Tẹ̀ Yànrìn: The actual, documented Arabic sand science used by Islamic Alfas in West Africa.
2. Ifá: The completely separate, ancient Yoruba tradition that uses Ikin (rainforest palm nuts) or the Ọ̀pẹ̀lẹ̀ chain, operating on a massive oral library with zero Arabic loanwords.
If Ifá was just an "imported Arab sand science" like you claimed, the Yoruba wouldn't have a completely different, specific name for the actual Arab sand science when it arrived! The culture explicitly keeps them apart because everyone knows Tẹ̀ Yànrìn came from the North later, while Ifá belongs to the ancient, indigenous roots of Ilé-Ifẹ̀.
Are you mistaking the Alfas' sand practice for Ifá just because both use binary math?
Yoruba did not invent Ifa. They imported it.
Before you let your emotions take over, calm yourself down. The original name of this system was ʿIlm al-Raml, The Science of Sand. It was developed by Black populations in Aswan and the Nile Valley long before it ever reached West Africa.
The whole framework is pure binary mathematics. It uses a base of 16 figures that multiply out into 256 probabilities. This is what Yoruba people call the 256 Odu.
If you want to know, go and read the historical manuscripts of North African scholars especially that of Shaykh Abdallah al-Zanati.
He documented this binary science centuries ago. Every single one of the 16 primary Odu in Ifa has a direct Arabic mathematical equivalent in Zanati’s records.
The figure the Arabs called Tariq is what the Yoruba call Ogbe. The figure they called Jama'a is what the Yoruba call Oyeku. The mathematical coding is identical. You cannot debate this.
When ancient people migrated from the Nubian corridors and Arab Trans-Saharan trade routes opened up, Islamic scholars and merchants brought this architectural blueprint with them into West Africa.
The Yoruba are genius custodians. They assimilated it brilliantly. They mapped this imported Arab-transmitted science onto their own indigenous cosmology, attributed it to Orunmila, and named it Ifa.
But being a great preserver is not the same as being the originator.
This is why you find the very same system everywhere along those migration routes. The Fon call it Fa. The Ewe call it Afa. In Madagascar it is Sikidy. The medieval Europeans even copied it and translated the Arabic name into Geomancy.
If we have been quiet about this, it does not mean we do not know. History does not care about modern sentiments.
By historical origin and transmission, Ifa is Esin Arabu. The blueprint came from Aswan and arrived through Arab corridors.
Facts don’t lie.
Allah knows best.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
A truck, fully loaded with yams, has reportedly fallen around Lade, along Abéòkúta-Ìbàdàn Old Road. The truck has caused serious traffic jam on tbe said road. Emergency and rescue officers are needed onsite.
Cc: @FeedbackOYSG @OyoPoliceNG @FRSCNigeria
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
Also, a top modern historians, such as Professor Toyin Falola, have written extensively on why the "migration from Mecca or Egypt" narrative exists.
• When early recorders like Samuel Johnson documented Yoruba history in the late 1800s, they were heavily influenced by European missionaries.
• Under colonial rule, there was a widespread bias called the Hamitic hypothesis—the racist belief that black sub-Saharan Africans were incapable of creating advanced kingdoms like Ilé-Ifẹ̀ on their own.
• To make African history look "civilized" and respectable to Western audiences, early writers purposefully tried to tie African kings to biblical or Islamic regions like Egypt, Nubia, or Mecca.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
If there is any chance of discovering your origins, or how we all came into existence, the most logical place to start is your own genealogy and the chain of ancestors that produced you.
Following Arabs own ancestors, especially placing them over yours won’t tell you where you come from except of course you choose to deceive yourself.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
Imagine some people using Sultan Bello, Usman dan Fodio’s son and the second caliph of Sokoto, to tell us, the Yorùbá people, where we came from. He wasn’t Yorùbá, and we know the history between the Yorùbá and Sokoto up to 1840.
Even Samuel Johnson wrote in his book that the Yorùbá “could not have come from Mecca” and said he found no matching account in Arabian historical records. But I guess when the agenda is to rewrite Yorùbá history, even the book some of you are citing becomes inconvenient.
Remember your history, because those who control your memory can manipulate your understanding of your own oppression. #fypシ゚viral
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
Ask him how, he'll tell you Abraham was a Muslim. Press him for source, he'll give you a literal definition of Islam. And do you know why Islam claims to be the oldest? It's to be able to conveniently revisit history, historical negationism precisely.
There is no religion or system of belief that is older than Islam. This is an established truth within the Islamic worldview and a fundamental conviction of the Muslim faith.
Others may hold different views, and that is perfectly legitimate. The truth of a Muslim's belief does not become false simply because others hold different beliefs and convictions.
Every individual has the right to make their choices, embrace their convictions, and stand firmly by what they believe. Respect for religious diversity does not require anyone to abandon the truth claims of their own faith. We can disagree without being disrespectful.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
A religion that crossed the Atlantic and kept its language
In Bahia, the songs are still in Yoruba and the deities are orixás.
Enslaved Yoruba shipped from the Bight of Benin were logged as 'Nagô', and their religion became the dominant one among Afro-Brazilians. Candomblé Ketu is the branch named after the kingdom of Ketu.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
You believe someone parted the red sea but you dont want me to believe one of my ancestors descended from the skies. You want to believe your own fable but u dont want me to believe mine (which is very relatable to me and my people)
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
"The truth of a Muslim's belief does not become false simply because others hold different beliefs and convictions."
How come Muslims apply different logic when it comes to Odu-Ifa and Isese?
Why are they trying to force down their version of its origin down people's throats?
There is no religion or system of belief that is older than Islam. This is an established truth within the Islamic worldview and a fundamental conviction of the Muslim faith.
Others may hold different views, and that is perfectly legitimate. The truth of a Muslim's belief does not become false simply because others hold different beliefs and convictions.
Every individual has the right to make their choices, embrace their convictions, and stand firmly by what they believe. Respect for religious diversity does not require anyone to abandon the truth claims of their own faith. We can disagree without being disrespectful.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
The funniest part is that the claims being promoted by @YusufAsunmogejo and his Muslims brothers on here are nothing more than folk stories and religious mythology. There is no archaeological evidence that the 16-sand divination system (Ilm al-Raml) was practised in the Arabian Peninsula during the pre-Islamic era.
What was commonly practised during that period were Ayafah and Zajr ( observations of birds)
This is yet another attempt by these people to redirect Yoruba greatness to the Arabian Peninsula and associate everything about our civilisation with the deity of Mecca. Like previous attempts, this has failed. Their next move may be to claim that our language also has its roots in Arabic, but I believe that will be much more difficult because we have nothing in common.
I want every Yoruba son and daughter to understand that there are people who are genuinely interested in Arabising our existence. That is why there is even a book written as far back as 1813 by a son of Dan Fodio attempting to link our greatness to the deity of the Kaaba.
This did not start today, and it is not going to stop anytime soon until we are ready to stand up and say enough is enough. We must recognise the importance of preserving our history, identity, language and civilisation rather than allowing others to rewrite our heritage to fit their religious narratives.
Where did you get 2500 years from? lol 😂 Bring a single historical manuscript or archaeological evidence that places the 16 figure binary Odu system in Yorubaland in 500 BC. You cannot just invent thousands of years to win a debate.
But thank you for confirming my timeline. You said they reached Yorubaland 600 years ago. 600 years ago is the 1400s. Your own people in this very thread already admitted that the Odu was introduced to the Oyo empire around the 1400s. The dates match perfectly.
And for the record, Arabians did not need to physically settle in Yorubaland for the mathematical science to arrive. Knowledge travels through trade routes.
The framework moved from North Africa, down the Trans-Saharan routes, reached the Nupe people, and was brought across the border by a Nupe man named Setilu. You just proved my point for me. Thank you.
Ẹbití Ò P'ĚŔÁ retweeted
You are demanding a written paper manuscript from an oral civilization. That makes absolutely no sense. If a culture does not use paper, they do not write things down on paper!
Asking for a paper manuscript to prove Ifá existed is like asking for a voice recording of Jesus to prove he was alive. It is a trick question because the technology did not exist in that culture at that time.
But if you want to talk about real scientific proof, let's look at what the top African scholars say. Professor Wándé Abímbọ́lá, the greatest expert on Ifá history, explicitly says that Ifá poems do not contain dates. Why? Because the Yoruba chose to store their records in the human brain, not on paper. The priests were the living library.
You are trying to force your rules on our history. You say that if it is not written down in an Arabic notebook, it does not exist. That is a colonial way of thinking that strips Africans of their own intelligence.
You still have not answered the biggest questions:
1. If the Yoruba just copied this from Arab notebooks, why is there not a single Arabic word in the 16 primary Odu?
2. Why is every single tool and word completely Yoruba?
3. Why did you completely ignore that King Onigbogi’s mother brought Ifá to Oyo from Ota (another Yoruba town), proving it was already in Yorubaland long before 1500 CE?
