Author: Bello Abdullahi

THERE are moments in life when doing nothing is not weakness but wisdom. When silence is not evasion but care. This, sadly, was one of those moments. I say this without malice, and certainly without joy: Aisha Buhari did not need to do what she has done. And because she did not need to do it, the consequences now feel heavier. In our cultural and religious imagination, death is not an invitation to speech; it is a summons to restraint. The Qur’an repeatedly leans toward satr, concealment, over exposure. We are reminded that Allah is As-Sattar, the One who covers,…