The Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN) Kaduna State chapter, has urged Nigerians to embrace child-spacing to facilitate healthy family.
The Amira (Head) of the group, Hajiya Badiyya Sa’id, who made the plea while speaking newsmen in Zaria, said Muslims had initially rejected the programme due to the name “family planning.”
“In my own opinion, the name family planning was what made the people, especially Muslims to reject the programme, instead, we should call it child-spacing. A woman needs a space between each birth for her to regain strength. Islam is a complete way of life, therefore, it left
no area of human life untouched.
“The Qur’an explicitly declared two years as a child-bearing period, within which a mother could nurse her child. If mothers will abide by
this injunction, then they would have two or more years in between births, in essence they adopt child-spacing,” she said.
The Amira said though Islam encouraged men to marry more than one wife, but this was only if such a man had the ability to take care of
all them.
She said: “It is unwise for a man to marry two, three or four wives while he knows that he only has the ability to take care of just one
wife.
“It is clear that the only way to produce responsible children that Prophet Mohammed will be proud of, is when you marry and produce
according to your resources not producing without proper upbringing.”
