A dog would urinate on anything carelessly placed I think.
On 24 Jul 2013 10:50, "Cornelius Hamelberg" <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:--We have been here before with the much misunderstood and vilified Senator Yerima of Zamfara state, where Sharia Law operates. Since the Nigerian Village Square did not think it fit to publish my final reply to this series, I have nothing to do with that square and they can continue to profess freedom of speech and pontificate about it until their cows come home, but I refuse to play in such a theatre.
Maryam Uwais advances some reasonably sound and compassionate arguments on behalf of those she deems to be under age females, and this is especially so in the light of current modern day developments concerning the legal status of "the girl child" who is universally (almost) considered to be legally still a child until she is about sixteen, and in some places until she is eighteen years old. Without a doubt, this legal definition of childhood is a major problem for paedophiles, a major blow to paedophiles who would like to operate within the law.
Since Nigeria is still a secular state comprising about 45 % Muslims, an equal number of Christians and traditional religionists who continue to faithfully follow the marriage customs of their pious ancestors, it may be a case concerning which arguments on behalf of ethical relativism are invoked in this conflict between tradition and change in which the local is pitted against what is rapidly becoming globalised cultures in the name of either the United Nations or in the name of the globalisation of the major missionary religions and their adherents. Since this is so, I should hope that all the Maryam Uwais will agree with me that it is also reasonable to take into consideration these diverse approaches to both the indigenous and the imported standards of what is deemed permissible age limits to fulfilling marriage contracts – as legalised by al Islam.
In my view, since Nigeria is still a secular state the best solution would be to find a compromise in the wording of the relevant sections of Nigeria's legal code so that it can still accommodate and uphold the Sharia definitions according to the five schools of Islamic jurisprudence, so as not to outlaw or make unlawful, the honourable traditional Muslim marriage/ nikah - and from an essential Islamic point of view, when all is said and done, not to make unlawful that which Allah has made lawful. Now of course there is this kind of human dilemma that occurs in the twenty-first century and that perhaps occurred the many centuries after the advent of Islam which Muslims believe began with Adam – Islam's first prophet.. ( Meanwhile In Egypt we are approaching "the end of the beginning"
In conclusion, I should like to add that a Muslim makes a fundamental distinction between man-made law - however reasonable – and the law that is followed as a result of a belief in a divine revelation known as the Quran. Indeed, that's what makes someone a Muslim. A Muslim makes a distinction between divine law and idolatry – and idolatry can take many forms, including man-made forms and man-made laws, not to mention the laws of the jungle.
Here is an example of idolatry as narrated by Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
" For example in the South Eastern region of the Amazon jungle in Brazil, South America, a primitive tribe erected a new hut to house their main idol Skwatch, representing the supreme God of all creation. The following day a young man entered the hut to pay homage to the God, and while he was in prostration to what he had been taught was his Creator and Sustainer, a mangy old flea-ridden dog walked into the hut. The young man looked up in time to see the dog lift its hind leg and pass urine on the idol. Outraged, the youth chased the dog out of the temple, but when his rage had died down, he realised that the idol could not be the Lord of the universe."
All the above said sincerely and certainly not in the spirit of holier-than –thou.
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