"My Father Was A Pastor" Olalekan Babalola Speaks On His Transition To Worshipping IFA

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  • Опубликовано: 8 янв 2025

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  • @yemisitoba3294
    @yemisitoba3294 3 года назад +24

    Isese for me as a practitioner is a brain resetting and rewarding journey. It is high time we went back to our roots!

    • @lagosian123
      @lagosian123 3 года назад

      👍🏿Agreed!

    • @ay1ism
      @ay1ism 3 года назад

      ''we''? who are the we? People followed Ifa for centuries up til today and has never fare them well hence, vast majority left.

    • @bolatitolawal.1714
      @bolatitolawal.1714 3 года назад +1

      Isese agbe waa. I'm an isese person too

    • @lagosian123
      @lagosian123 3 года назад +1

      @@ay1ism and Christianity fair you well? You are an illusionist chasing shadows. Self destruction is what colonialism has done to your psychic.

    • @imanizhane7959
      @imanizhane7959 2 года назад

      @@ay1ism what are you even on about? Who is people?

  • @hfljr3765
    @hfljr3765 3 года назад +12

    This guy said alot of wisdom hope our people can deep it

  • @OyaRevolutionary
    @OyaRevolutionary Год назад

    This ordinary man is a powerhouse of brilliance! I can speak this from directly knowing and respecting his work and his flow. He displays (as always) extraordinary humility too! Yes I! Brother Lekan your time to shine again! Let's go oya!

  • @rosemaryallen8545
    @rosemaryallen8545 3 года назад +10

    Enjoy this conversation. Wonderful.Nice to show the link between Africa and the Caribbean. Greetings from the Caribbean

  • @joegonzalez6211
    @joegonzalez6211 3 года назад +5

    I’m Mexican-American raised Catholic but I always felt that IFA is my culture and religion. No matter how much I try to avoid it, I always think of IFA. I am not looking into getting initiated.

  • @beeojeiks6516
    @beeojeiks6516 3 года назад +3

    Wow, this segment with Mr Babalola is captivating and educational. Perhaps someone should have a documentary on the topic and interview him, this is something we are lacking in Nigeria. Documentaries on this topic are needed can be a legacy gift for us and our generation.

  • @lagosian123
    @lagosian123 3 года назад +3

    I like this man so much, he talks sense and truth.

  • @olatemitope737
    @olatemitope737 3 года назад +8

    Ifa is the best my guy.

  • @philipsrotimiakinrolabu5523
    @philipsrotimiakinrolabu5523 3 года назад +3

    Thank You so mush, Babalola for going into this Ifa traditional way, this us is in our blood. Bless you.

    • @ay1ism
      @ay1ism 3 года назад +1

      Ifa is not our blood don't be deluded.

  • @Ọlá_Ọ̀kẹ́
    @Ọlá_Ọ̀kẹ́ 3 года назад +1

    Best YOUR VIEW topic/delivery, ever. I was totally gripped by the info. Ọlálékan Babalọlá bravo! Mark my words, this is the moment a complete positive U-turn started...

  • @Metaquotes7
    @Metaquotes7 3 года назад +8

    This program is beautiful, I felt like studying IFA

    • @omowunmilasisi8194
      @omowunmilasisi8194 3 года назад +10

      You can’t convert to IFA, but you can study ifa, and IFA is the voice of olodumare given to orunmila when coming on earth

    • @KiRetteCouture
      @KiRetteCouture 3 года назад +3

      Think very carefully about that decision. Do your research and make an informed choice. Speak to someone who practised this and left it.There are often consequences of not adhering to the rules of these things.

    • @Metaquotes7
      @Metaquotes7 3 года назад +2

      @@omowunmilasisi8194 you get me. Studying I mean. Not converting.

    • @kunlejacob874
      @kunlejacob874 3 года назад

      @@Metaquotes7 you need not convert, IFA is not even a religion.

  • @suleshzulesh3770
    @suleshzulesh3770 3 года назад +5

    IFA ni olohun olodumare....IFA has been the greatest that happened to me....ISESE Lagba....I stand with IFA I learn new things every day....my eyes are opened..I Love ISESE I love IFA...edited to say we are not Yoruba no we're in IFA are we called Yoruba it's a worldly name given to us by oppressors due to some event or scenero.... omo Kaaro jire.... omoluabi ni wa...omo irunmole

    • @beeojeiks6516
      @beeojeiks6516 3 года назад +1

      Wow! Really I would love to know how we came to be called Yorubas.

    • @suleshzulesh3770
      @suleshzulesh3770 3 года назад +1

      Alot of mixed history of how and why we are called Yoruba.starting from Fulanis/Hausa who call us Yariba which has meaning in they no own language..to the foreigners who call us yo rubo....or yo baba e....I can't remember you need scholar's for that part...but according to IFA Yoruba was never mentioned...only Ara ile ife or awon Ara ilu Oyo and many other part of abinibi was mentioned

    • @jobiej7416
      @jobiej7416 2 года назад

      Is there any book you can recommend to beginners who want to learn about ifa

  • @oluphemmyjames6431
    @oluphemmyjames6431 3 года назад +1

    Am very excited my favorite of all the ladies hosted today's show

  • @kossiekoue8732
    @kossiekoue8732 3 года назад +3

    Wise... powerful...

  • @abisoyeoyeyinka9379
    @abisoyeoyeyinka9379 3 года назад +1

    May God bless you forever amen.

  • @oluakinwale4859
    @oluakinwale4859 3 года назад +7

    I thought he said his English is not good! Or did he say Yoruba!
    Wow! I respect that man.

    • @beeojeiks6516
      @beeojeiks6516 3 года назад +1

      He was being modest. He was very articulate in his explanation with a nice accent. love every bit of the interview. Love the new lady and everyone.

    • @oluakinwale4859
      @oluakinwale4859 3 года назад +1

      @@beeojeiks6516 his English is polish and his Yoruba "jinle"!

  • @Oshumare
    @Oshumare 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing his experience to Ifa.

  • @abisoyeoyeyinka9379
    @abisoyeoyeyinka9379 3 года назад

    Ifa is wisdom. Bless you bro. Fakoya st. Ao.

  • @creativecollaborations1510
    @creativecollaborations1510 3 года назад +3

    ❤️ Beautiful Blessings

  • @Chubbsdvd
    @Chubbsdvd 3 года назад +1

    Go dad

  • @abisoyeoyeyinka9379
    @abisoyeoyeyinka9379 3 года назад

    Great job.

  • @suleshzulesh3770
    @suleshzulesh3770 3 года назад +2

    The most peaceful relig*on/traditions

  • @adesewa100
    @adesewa100 2 года назад +1

    Isese Lagba...

  • @adealadejarerealestate
    @adealadejarerealestate 3 года назад +3

    Read professor Sophie Oluwole book, " Orunmila and Socrates."

    • @beeojeiks6516
      @beeojeiks6516 3 года назад

      I need to read that May Ms Oluwole Rest in Peace.

    • @kenny7872
      @kenny7872 3 года назад

      Socrates only encapsulated one tenth of Orunmila, who can only be compared to Jesus because Orunmila is known as ( eleri ipin)a witness to the distribution of destiny.

    • @adealadejarerealestate
      @adealadejarerealestate 3 года назад +1

      @@kenny7872 Yes. Ella invented the computer with his binary system of communication. Ella wasn't able to capture the value of his invention, Bill Gates did though. Opele is a means of communication same way Jesus left the holy spirit. Orunmila is so complex, they're still studying him in quantum Physics. Orunmila encompasses the totality of African religion, science and technology. I wrote about Orunmila's concept of religion, which he defined as ethics hence the saying, "Iwa ni esin."

    • @ADE-of-LAGOS
      @ADE-of-LAGOS 2 года назад +1

      @@kenny7872 If the story of Jesus is true, then it's likely that the same spirit is in both Orunmilaand Jesus. And as it is said in the Bible that "in beginning was the word and the word was with God". I heard Professor Wande Abimbola (the Awise Ifa) say that Ifa was not createsd and it was with Olodumare right from the beginning. So, one can clearly see that Ifa is the same word the Bible is referring to.

  • @aliceeffiong4196
    @aliceeffiong4196 3 года назад +1

    🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @suleshzulesh3770
    @suleshzulesh3770 3 года назад +3

    There all works of life in IFA..... including internet

  • @suleshzulesh3770
    @suleshzulesh3770 3 года назад +1

    Nobody know IFA...cause IFA is very vast make me fill confidence...cos we have different topics and ODU IFA to treat..we were forcefully giving false relig*on

  • @mrsford6735
    @mrsford6735 2 года назад +3

    Ifa chose me as well. My people were colonized and made to praise white jesus...no more. I chose to remove myself and go home. Ase.

  • @onlyme4174
    @onlyme4174 3 года назад +2

    Me I don’t kuku believe in religion anymore Na lie I believe in our traditions

  • @iyaibeji4120
    @iyaibeji4120 3 года назад

    Yoruba through our tradition and culture aways, but respected in South America's.

  • @michealbaskerville8832
    @michealbaskerville8832 2 года назад

    🦉🤘🏿

  • @christmethod8878
    @christmethod8878 3 года назад

    ILE -OGBO IS LOCATED IN IWO AND NOT OSOGBO....SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT.

    • @kunlejacob874
      @kunlejacob874 3 года назад

      Ileogbo is located in Aiyedire LGA not Iwo..... Setting the record straight.

    • @christmethod8878
      @christmethod8878 3 года назад

      @@kunlejacob874 I know it's Ayedire that's why I said Iwo and not Iwo LGA

  • @biblicalchristtv5717
    @biblicalchristtv5717 10 месяцев назад

    Repent & turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.

  • @Ayooladapo6502
    @Ayooladapo6502 3 года назад +5

    I will like to correct one of the interviewers, there is no Human Sacrifice on Yoruba Spirituality.

    • @ay1ism
      @ay1ism 3 года назад +1

      Hahaha , how old are you? Perhaps , you could ask the elders in your town about sacrifices made to this idols/gods and goddesses.

    • @Ayooladapo6502
      @Ayooladapo6502 3 года назад +3

      @@ay1ism please don't be silly. Their is no god or goddess in yoruba Spirituality they are all deities spirits called orisha and please tell me where you have seen a real babalawo use human for Sacrifice. Babalawo is a priest and not to be confused with herbalist, onisegun e.t.c although some combine all, a real babalawo akeyo performs only Sacrifice and not with humans. How many human beings have you seen killed to any deities? There are so many misconception about yoruba Spirituality and ifa divination do your research before exhibiting ignorance in public. Any one who kills another human must be killed too and no human should be killed in the name of religion or Sacrifice.

    • @ay1ism
      @ay1ism 3 года назад

      @@Ayooladapo6502 Hahaha, another ignoramus telling us there were never human and animals sacrifice. Tell me the town you come from and I will tell you the history. Even if you don't know about your history you must have had or seen videos on the Internet where political leaders were bathing in blood. Are you telling us we should shun those ladies whose private parts were removed simply because we need to paint ifa good? If you haven't had of the history where towns in Yoruba land have used "ajeji" (another Yoruba person simply because he or she is from another town) for sacrifice in some cases where the so called gods are angry then, you are too a child to comment on Yoruba history. Or maybe you are another foolish westerner of African descents who have been fed lies.
      For the facts that you try to swap the meaning of babalawo from being a herbalist to a priest demonstrated that you are under illusion. You can only deceive yourself. Priest ke 😂😂😂 you think it's a church, lol.
      What is deities what is gods and goddess😂😂😂 doesn't it means thesame thing. Go and learn the basics and stop embarrassing yourself kid.

    • @Ayooladapo6502
      @Ayooladapo6502 3 года назад

      @@ay1ism anybody that tells you to go and kill someone for fame and money isn't a Babalawo but someone practising something else. All the things you are saying are stereotypes from movies. Get knowledge kid. If you see any politician bathing with blood I'm telling you that it can never be on the instructions of ifa divination, those are evil powers with grave consequences.

    • @ay1ism
      @ay1ism 3 года назад

      ​@@Ayooladapo6502 '' All the things you are saying are stereotypes from movies'' and where the movie makers are getting their stories from? Hahaha.
      ''If you see any politician bathing with blood I'm telling you that it can never be on the instructions of ifa divination''
      Story for the gods. You must be living in a lala land to think I got my knowledge from a movie. I still have relatives that do all these divination rubbish. Two sisters are not in talking terms because they were independently told one is doing the other and vice versa.
      Children stop talking their mum because they told them their mum is a 'witch' that she is behind their misfortune.
      Meanwhile, there is no single proof or evidence of all these claims or that the Onifa or depending on your dialect, Adifa (babalawo) actually speaks to any higher power but rather speaking of what came to their mind or their thoughts.
      Why do you think our forefathers, on a massive scale, moved away from this idol/divinations when light (Christianity) came? You know Ifa more than them? Continue in your delusion, I hope pe ko ni pe e ki o to ye e.

  • @iyaibeji4120
    @iyaibeji4120 2 года назад

    I want to learn IFA,is our culture and Tradition,they Just through It away,cos of foreigner Religion .

  • @michaelfarmhand
    @michaelfarmhand 3 года назад +18

    ‘My father was a pastor’ means nothing. You have to know Christ yourself. You, not your father, must be born again.

    • @yoobon5670
      @yoobon5670 3 года назад +8

      No, please it's you that should try to know yourself (your Ori), learn your African Spirituality ( your IFA) that you' ve Rejected and Forsaken.

    • @michaelfarmhand
      @michaelfarmhand 3 года назад +12

      @@yoobon5670 It was forsaken and rejected for a reason. Follow Ifa if you must, but as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD

    • @obaalayemore744
      @obaalayemore744 3 года назад +11

      @@michaelfarmhand he is serving LORD through ifa and you are serving through bible ..it because the bible people colonize you that is why you see it as only way and that is problem of africa...it is forsaken and reject because european force their own believe on your forefather...christain mafia and crusader kill thesame way terrorist are killing today before people turn to christians...go are read about slavery and colonization ....if white man do not come to give you book that say dont steal and the stole everything in africa ..your artifact and so call orisha and even human being ...

    • @michaelfarmhand
      @michaelfarmhand 3 года назад +5

      @@obaalayemore744 I think you’re mixing up a few things. I don’t serve God through the Bible. First I am a child of God through Christ, saved, sanctified and glorified. Service comes next because I am now ‘God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for the doing of good works’
      Without the sanctification through Christ all our works are ‘like filthy rags’
      As to this ‘white man religion’ card, Christianity was in Africa way before it got to Europe. Finally my Bible tells me that “for God so loved the world, the he gave his only begotten Son, that whosever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”
      Two things to note here:
      God loves the world - Yoruba, Indian, Anglo Saxon, etc.
      And - whosoever - that’s me, you and anyone else of any race or culture.
      The offer of eternal life in Christ is for whosoever places his or her trust in Christ.
      No one is saved through ifa, but if you must follow ifa, it’s your choice, but it is not wise to base your eternity on the dead works of our forefathers.
      I wish you well.

    • @kunlejacob874
      @kunlejacob874 3 года назад +2

      The age of Reason.... By Thomas Paine....... After reading it, you will begin to ask questions you have been suppressing...

  • @ay1ism
    @ay1ism 3 года назад

    The class in England he talked about has nothing to do with Christianity but culture. In fact, this class is virtually not existing today.

  • @bolasalak7360
    @bolasalak7360 Год назад

    It is high time we redefine our culture and religion from the gory picture been painted by the imperialist and get our right direction.

  • @toyinadebiyi779
    @toyinadebiyi779 3 года назад +2

    😇never heard of him ..before..he will soon know the truth

    • @wahabodusola6484
      @wahabodusola6484 3 года назад +7

      If I may ask ma'am, what's the TRUTH??

    • @w1l1t1
      @w1l1t1 3 года назад +4

      And what is the truth if I may politely ask?

    • @kunlejacob874
      @kunlejacob874 3 года назад +4

      Did you mean the truth that was forced upon your ancestors?....

    • @toyinadebiyi779
      @toyinadebiyi779 3 года назад +2

      @@kunlejacob874 nobody forced anything on me.. I discovered that by myself. I am learned and know that I am not prepared to worship any idol...who needs to be fed with red oil,eko etc. Who has no single currency to generate to the economy of the nation. I worship the God of the Universe. The owner of all wealth . Why are we poor in Africa with all the idols?.. And the white man is getting richer and richer without worship of Ifa?

    • @toyinadebiyi779
      @toyinadebiyi779 3 года назад +2

      @@wahabodusola6484 JESUS CHRIST is the Way and the TRUTH . For me. I will not force anyone or accuse anyone of their own truth. Ifa worship never made the continent rich...if he believes in Ifa, then fine with him

  • @akinolaayodele8409
    @akinolaayodele8409 3 года назад +1

    What is the different between what your father practiced then as aladura priest and what you are doing now?truly, your parents never practice true Christianity rather,they disguised as servants of God and followers of Jesus Christ.they set false foundation for you to follow

    • @tboy5443
      @tboy5443 2 года назад

      What gives you right to judge people for what their conviction is. People like you will remain blind forever and still not make heaven