Nigeria: Sheikh Ahmed Lemu (1929-2020) allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I discovered that Sheikh is the Arabic equivalent of Shehu.
Due to youthful exuberance, I felt that if Sheikh is the correct Arabic pronunciation of Shehu, why shouldn’t I change it.
And since then, I started using Sheikh in place of Shehu.
And Sheikh has remained your name till date?
Yes, but I later realized the embarrassment I caused myself.
When I started having contact with Arab scholars in 1969, after the formation of the Islamic Education Trust (IET), I was not comfortable introducing myself as Sheikh each time I met with such scholars at meetings and conferences because sheikh to the Arabs is a title used for the learned or aged and I was neither.
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