The Nationwide Missioner and Important Imam of the Ansar-Ud-Deen Family of Nigeria, Sheik Abdulrahman Ahmad, has defined why some individuals could also be opposing Sharia in Nigeria.
In an interview with our correspondent, Sheik Abdulrahman blamed “ignorance and prejudice” at the a part of the ones opposing Sharia observe.
In step with him, Sharia has been current over the a long time in some portions of the rustic particularly within the North, with none controversy.
“I think people oppose it for two reasons. Either prejudice or ignorance. Ignorance because they don’t know. They don’t know what it entails,” he advised The PUNCH in a phone interview on Monday night.
“People should not bring sentiment into it. We must bring the facts. First, it must be made known that Muslims are calling for a system that recognises the uniqueness of their situation, that personal matters should be judged according to convictions,” the cleric added.
In step with him, shari’a panel has additionally been running in Lagos for two decades.
“We have now had shari’a panel in Lagos for just about two decades now. There is not any controversy about it. It’s no longer anything else fresh in Lagos and it’s been running with none itch or controversy in any way. That’s why I mentioned family must no longer convey any sentiment into it.
“What we should know is that there’s a provision within the Nigerian Charter for Muslims to have shari’a court docket if they would like.
“It is a constitutional matter and the shari’a court as presently constituted applies to what they call Muslim Personal Law, marriage, divorce, inheritance, custody of children, and so on. This is what the shari’a court is about.”
The PUNCH experiences that Christian and Muslim leaders on Monday clashed over the deliberate settingup of shari’a arbitration panel around the South-Western states of Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo, and Lagos by way of the Ideally suited Council for Islamic Affairs.
This comes because the proponents of the Islamic code mentioned there was once incorrect going again on their determination to arrange the panel to adjudicate and get to the bottom of problems a few of the South-West Muslim Ummah.