Muslim opinion leaders working in the direction of the promotion of peace, safety, and prevention of conflict-related Gender-Primarily based Violence (GBV) have known as on stakeholders to spearhead efforts in the direction of ending the scourge.
The leaders expressed concern over allegations that the spate of GBV is being inspired by Islam, insisting that the Holy Quran doesn’t help violence in any type, particularly in the direction of ladies.
Deputy Chief Imam of the Nationwide Mosque, Professor Iliyas Usman, identified that spiritual and conventional leaders are robust instruments for public reorientation, as they have an effect on GBV.
He acknowledged this at a Two-Day Stakeholders Dialogue on Islamic Perspective on Gender-Primarily based Violence Prevention organised by the Improvement Analysis and Initiatives Centre (dRPC), in partnership with Muslim Opinion Leaders for the Prevention of GBV in Northern Nigeria (MOLs), the Centre for Islamic Civilisation and Interfaith Dialogue (CICID), supported by the Ford Basis, yesterday in Abuja.
The Deputy Imam noticed that Islam as a faith doesn’t promote or help gender-based violence; slightly, it preaches that the person takes duty for the care and safety of his spouse from all types of violence.
He mentioned that some up to date writers and commentators discover in some Qur’anic texts an unjustified discrimination between women and men by “claiming {that a} man has the suitable to beat his spouse each time he pleases and {that a} man has the suitable to dominate his spouse; it is a utterly false declare.”
Lead paper presenter and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Gamaleldin Ibrahim-Mohd, a former Dean of the School of Drugs in Al-Azhar College, Cairo, Egypt, mentioned that one out of three ladies are subjected to gender-based violence and, sadly, in a lot of the mass media, this scourge is falsely associated to Islam.
He argued that Islam as a faith doesn’t put it up for sale as a result of gender-based violence was current even earlier than Islam.
“While you look into the first sources of Islam—the Holy Quran, the Sunnah, which is the authenticated Hadith and sayings of the Prophet, the Ijma’, which is the unanimous opinion of the Islamic students, and the analogy or qiyas—we discover that every one these main sources of Sharia have condemned all types of gender-based violence, not solely bodily violence but additionally psychological violence, sexual violence, socio-cultural violence, and political violence.”
Ibrahim-Mohd, who can be the Director of the Worldwide Islamic Centre for Inhabitants Research and Analysis, insisted that “Depriving ladies of their proper to guard themselves and inflicting hurt on them by means of gender-based violence is certainly towards faith.”
Talking on the significance of equipping conventional leaders with the suitable instruments and information on the prevention of conflict-related violence, Member, Board of Trustees of the dRPC, Professor Balarabe Garko, mentioned spiritual and conventional leaders are highly effective drivers of social change.
In line with him, “Conventional authorities and religion management, when geared up with the suitable instruments, information, and steerage, can result in desired modifications.”
Talking on the significance of leveraging the affect of Muslim Opinion Leaders in addressing GBV in Northern Nigeria, Minister of Ladies Affairs Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim mentioned that “Any type of aggression, molestation, or transgression is strictly forbidden in Islam.
“The Noble Prophet (SAW) declared throughout his Farewell Pilgrimage that your blood and property are sacred; therefore, Islam offers clear codes of conduct for treating ladies with respect, fairness, and mutuality. If these are persistently noticed, there will likely be far much less GBV and, God keen, a GBV-free society as a result of these provisions, whether or not direct or oblique, safeguard all people, with explicit safety for girls and women.”