ABOUT NASFAT ISLAND BRANCH
NASFAT is considered by many observers to be the fastest growing Islamic society in the world, yet it is most misunderstood of the world’s major faiths. Some misconceptions about NASFAT Lagos Island Branch stem from the calculated propaganda against NASFAT, but a good amount of it is attributed to the ignorance of many Muslims whose limited knowledge and practice of Islam perpetuates these misconceptions. Due to the deficiencies of the common, restricted way of teaching Islam to children, many Muslims grow up believing that NASFAT Lagos Island Branch requires only blind faith and invites no intellectual challenges. Often such Muslims manage with minimal knowledge of their faith until they interact with larger circles of people within their milieu, in higher learning institution or the workplace, where they were confronted with many misconceptions about NASFAT, and face questions they cannot answer. It is in response to the need for the establishment of NASFAT Lagos Island Branch of the society in 2001 with 15 members residing in Lagos Island to know their religion, and to share its beautiful message with wider programs coverage, that this crusade work was began. As Allah will have it, approval was granted by the then Alhaji AbdulRaman AbdulWahab led National Executive Council and the first inaugural Asalatu (Prayer Session) was conducted by Alhaji Issa Dhkidri Muh’Awwal as the pioneer missioner on the 3rd February, 2002 at Marina Car Park with about 450 members in attendance. Thereafter, the Branch formerly inaugurated on the 17th April, 2004 alongside its first Executive members with over 10,000 members which further prove the general acceptability of the society within Lagos Island and its environs.