A Thousand Years Before Hobbes: The 7th-century divine warning Nigeria is ignoring in 2025, by Abdullahi Adam Usman Over a thousand years before Thomas Hobbes penned his prominent masterpiece, 'Leviathan' (1651 AD), which outlines the conditions for safety and stability between a people and their sovereign authority, the Almighty had already set forth those very conditions in Sūrat Quraysh (Qur’an 106) to the people of Mecca. This was not because the Almighty must offer something in return to be obeyed. Rather, by reminding the Quraysh of His overwhelming favours, He removed...