Respected Kaduna based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad
Abubakar Gumi, has joined the fray on the issue of child bride by saying that
women can deliver children at 12 safely and thus there isnt such a big deal
with early marriage. Gumi made the revelation on his Facebook page.
His statement are as stated below;
WHO DETERMINES THE MARRIAGE AGE LIMIT?
Definitely it will not be a bunch of liberal
senators in a country majority of its citizen are Muslims. Marriage is a
sacrosanct religious contract. The secular constitution has already given, two
consensual adults (biological) the consent to engage in sexual intercourse, so
what is all this encroachment on religious sensitivities of people. It is truly
mischievous.
On religious issues that are liable to different
interpretation, Islam has accepted that only a medically scientific reason can
alter a decision.
Medically, from the age of 12, some girls can be
mothers. They can bear children and deliver them safely. Now in the west,
despite the laws against underage marriage (less than 18), thousands of
hundreds still gets pregnant out of illegal sexual activities. Islam as
pragmatic Religion thus permit any individual, matured to engage in legal
marriage to embrace all categories of human desires and protect teenagers from
irresponsible pregnancy. A married pregnant teen is absolutely in safer
socio-economic state of affairs than one in an illegitimate teen pregnancy.
“About 93,000 teenagers, 8,000 of them under the age
of 16, become pregnant in Britain each year. Just over half the pregnancies of
those under 16 end in abortion. In the West, only Canada, New Zealand and the
United States have higher rates.” The Prime Minister Tony Blair on learning
that two other 12- year-olds were pregnant by their teen-age boyfriends had to
call for a "new national moral purpose" and in June 2000, the
government announced a $96 million plan aimed at cutting in half the number of
teen pregnancies. The government also plans a major overhaul of sex education
and contraceptive services, which will be publicized more openly and made more
accessible”. \[CNN oct11,99.]
May Allah protect us all from the Dajjal of this
era.
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