Jaddy Ballas

Noni Madueke reminding 'em 🏆

I don’t understand this Arsenal’s Madueke anymore.

There may be certain similarities between Ifá and Raml, particularly in their binary systems, divinatory structures and the beliefs associated with them. However, Ifá is thoroughly Yorùbá in its narratives, historical traditions, practices, worldview and literary content. It is not impossible that Ifá may have experienced external influences over the course of its historical development. After all, it is a body of knowledge, and knowledge systems, like other human intellectual traditions, can interact with, borrow from and influence one another. Such possibilities, however, do not justify attributing the origin or ownership of Ifá to another ethnic nationality. Equally, it would be historically inaccurate to make definitive claims about its precise origins without sufficient evidence. Having said that, it is important to acknowledge that the available Yorùbá historical traditions do not establish, with the chronological and geographical precision expected of rigorous historical scholarship, exactly when and where the systematic study or practice of Ifá began. Its traditional narratives provide important cultural and historical insights, but they should not be mistaken for conclusive historical documentation of its beginnings. Furthermore, Ifá is not merely a divinatory practice; it is also a religious tradition and an extensive body of knowledge, with its own worldview, cosmology, metaphysics and ethical assumptions. Its belief system, particularly its theological and cosmological foundations, is fundamentally at variance with Islamic monotheism (Tawḥīd). This is why a Muslim must abstain from its religious and divinatory practices, while recognising that its historical, literary, cultural and intellectual dimensions may legitimately be studied for academic and research purposes. Finally, we must learn to distinguish between the objective academic study of a religious tradition and participation in its religious practices. Respecting a people's intellectual and cultural heritage does not require accepting its religious beliefs.

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You don't need to abuse me. Just bring facts. I said İfa was imported, you are crashing out. It's the pure truth. Do you people know Reverend Samuel Johnson? He is the most respected pioneer of documented Yoruba history. In his book titled: “The History of the Yorubas,” he explicitly documented how this system entered Yorubaland. He recorded that Ifa was introduced by a blind man named Setilu. Setilu was a man from the Nupe country, what the Yoruba call the Tapa people. He was practicing this imported Arab sand divination, ʿIlm al-Raml. He migrated into Yorubaland and brought this mathematical science with him. The early Yoruba priests and indigenous custodians saw the mathematical precision of his divination. They took Setilu's imported Arab science, translated the Arabic concepts into the Yoruba language, and wove it into the indigenous Orunmila cosmology to make it their own. Some of you are arguing that only the language is different. The real question is who translated from who? The flow of history only goes in one direction. The 16 binary figures and the 256 probabilities were already documented in Arabic manuscripts by North African scholars centuries before they became Yoruba oral tradition. The Arabs and the people of the Nile Valley did not travel down to Yorubaland to learn sand divination and then take it back up North. That is geographically and historically backwards. The blueprint came down into West Africa. The Yoruba received it and translated it. Changing the name of an imported Arab science to fit your local language does not make you the originator. It makes you a brilliant translator and preserver. Bring your dates, your migration routes, and your historical manuscripts. If you cannot counter Samuel Johnson and the historical Arabic manuscripts with hard evidence, sit down and learn.

Arsenal in a title race at Emirates, got hammered by Iraola's Bournemouth last season Arsenal lost 3-0 to Brighton this season and that Brighton was humbled by Liverpool Arsenal have not won at Anfield in 14 years. 6 years before Wenger left Iraola owns Arteta tactically and Liverpool owns Arsenal historically, spirituallyand physically. Iraola's combination with Liverpool makes it more than impossible for Arteta and Arsenal to even get a draw at Anfield