Browsing by Author "Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat"

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    Challenges of Female Participation in Tahfizu’l-Qur’ān: Ilorin as a Case Study
    (Lafiya Journal of Arts, 2024) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat; Imam-Fulani, Hajarat
    The practice of Qur’an memorization, initiated by Prophet Muhammad and his Companions, has been perpetuated by Muslims across generations to harness its numerous spiritual and intellectual benefits. Today, Qur’an memorization has evolved to include global competitions that test and celebrate proficiency among Muslims. Despite both genders participating, female memorizers remain significantly underrepresented. This paper investigates the specific challenges faced by female Qur’an memorizers in Ilorin, Nigeria. Using a descriptive and analytical approach, the study employs interviews and observations as primary data collection methods. Respondents were randomly selected from among female students, teachers, parents, and coordinators of Qur’an memorization centers in Ilorin. Findings reveal that societal misconceptions about female roles and rights in Islam, coupled with a lack of female-sensitive institutional support, greatly hinder female participation in Qur’an memorization. The study suggests that addressing these challenges requires providing both physical and psychological support to female students and restructuring Qur’an memorization centers to be more inclusive and supportive of female learners.
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    Gender oppression: Muslim women and post divorce issues in Nigeria
    (Anyigba Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2005) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
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    Girl-child upbringing in Islam: Where contemporary Ilorin Muslim women are getting it wrong
    (Ilorin Journal of Religious Studies, (IJOURELS), 2021) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
    Islam considers female child a treasure that must be well guarded due to her sensitive role to humanity. Hence, Islam gives special attention to her upbringing in a way to safeguard her against waywardness and prepare her for the role of shaping society. The shari'ah counts on the expertise of women (as mothers or female guardians) in the female-child upbringing. Consequently, they are to conscientiously monitor her in all the stages of development and serve as good models to her. Reports indicated how some ancient Ilorin Muslim women applied the Islamic template in nurturing their girls to ascertain their uprightness and efficiency as wives and mothers. Quite on the contrary, many modern Ilorin Muslim women are reportedly breeding ill-mannered female children, a development that negates the Islamic principle. This study is descriptive and analytical, probing into what modern Ilorin Muslim women are doing wrongly in girl-child nurturing, which has led to societal incongruity. Interview was the major research instrument used. The study revealed that most of modern Ilorin Muslim women downplayed the Islamic nurturing method in the bid for modernisation. This trend was observed to have led to many female children to be dysfunctional. The study concluded that the situation is redeemable if Muslim women adopt the Islamic guidelines to confront the contemporary challenges faced in female-child upbringing.
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    Husband Victims of Marital Violence in Nigerian Muslim Homes: An Islamic Assessment
    (International Journal of Religion, Arts and Humanities (IJRAH), 2024-06) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat; Arikewuyo, Abdus-Sami’i Imam
    Marital violence is an abusive behavior that is directed towards a partner by another partner in a marriage relationship. There are abound studies on marital violence against women but scanty ones on men. Contrary to the popular opinion that men are not prone to marital violence, studies revealed that they experienced it, but it was under-reported. Nigerian Muslim men are not excluded from this happening, they are abused by their wives. In recent times, the Nigerian media has been saturated with dreadful cases of marital violence against men, including Muslim men. It is against this backdrop that this study investigates marital violence against Nigerian Muslim husbands. The study examines its patterns and causes in the light of Islam. The study is descriptive and analytical, adopting participatory observation and media reportage as major research instruments. The study reveals that Nigerian Muslim men suffered major, physical, psychological, sexual, financial, and social abuses from their wives. The causes of this trend were identified to be vengeance, jealousy, poverty, and ignorance of Islamic ethical rules. The effects of these abuses constitute threats to the health and subsequent death of the victim. These revelations are antithetical to Islamic marital rules of peaceful cohabitation. Hence, the study recommends a proper understanding of Islamic marital ethics before marriage, and the establishment of Islamic family counseling centers where couples can seek guidance on steps to take, particularly during disputes.
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    Ilorin women and family life in retrospect: Implication for the future
    (Ilorin: Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), 2015) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
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    Internet services and the challenges of Muslim adolescents
    (Al-Fikr Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2007) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
    The Internet is one of the units of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It provides various services including: Electronic Mail (e-mail), Search Engines and File Transfer. This technological advancement poses a lot of challenges to Muslim adolescents. The paper focuses on the Search Engine Service of the internet and the varieties of uses it can be subjected to. The Islamic provision on child upbringing was used as a standard for measuring the pros and cons of this information service. The paper established that Search Engine Service enables the user to have access to unrestricted information and entertainments which expose them to trivialities and obnoxious experiences that are condemned by Islam.
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    Islamic ethics and human reproduction
    (Islamic Women/Youth Centre, Anwar-ul Islam Movement of Nigeria, 2000) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
    The focus here is also on reproductive health but with particular reference to Celibacy, Adoption, Widowhood Practices, Relations between Couples and the Muslim Family. The sacredness of the family institution is elaborated upon. Some reproductive health practices though common place, offend against Islam and stand discouraged, Though Islam recognises women's rights, it at the same time imposes some obligations on Muslim women.
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    Islamic mode of dressing for female as a globalised socio-cultural concept
    (Alore : Ilorin Journal of the Humanities, 2006) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
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    Islamic worldview on justice and polygyny among contemporary Yoruba Muslim families in Nigeria
    (Malaysia: Persatuan Ulama Malaysia, 2016) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
    In Islam, justice ('adl) denotes fairness in dealings; equilibrium in the distribution of rights and duties; a moral virtue and rectitude. Allah, in numerous verses of the Qur'an, unequivocally commanded mankind to be just in all dealings, while He also vehemently condemns any element of injustice and oppression. The legality of Islamic polygyny is unambiguously premised on justice. Ability of prospective polygynist to be just among his wives has enticed universal debate and divergent positions among Islamic scholars in particular. Some Islamic/Muslim countries outlawed polygyny on the ground of inability to do justice among wives; others permitted it through regulations, while some left it to personal discretion. Nigerian Muslims fall into the last category of subjecting polygyny to the hand of men. This study explores the Islamic concept of justice in Muslim Polygyny in Nigeria, putting into perspective the benefits, harms inherent in the practice and the implication of regulating Islamic polygyny rather than banning or leaving it to individual discretion. The study is descriptive. Interview is the major research instrument used in the study. The study reveals that while some Nigeria polygynous Muslim men abide by the Islamic provisions, others apparently disregard justice through their reckless and indiscriminate practice of the institution, the resultant effect of which is disintegration and destabilization of families; breeding of persistent acrimony, chaos etc. Recommendations that will enhance the practice of justice by polygynous Muslims in Nigeria and other Muslim societies are given in the paper.
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    Missing links between the Islamic marital vision and the Muslim practice among the Yoruba in Nigeria
    (Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2016) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
    Marriage is ordained in Islam to stabilize individual and the society. It is premised on tranquility, love and mercy that should permeate the Muslim matrimony. However, reverse is the case in many contemporary Muslim marriages among the Yoruba in Nigeria. Many homes have been turned into abode of tension, pain, grief, and regret. Rather than love and compassion, hatred, mistrust and distress now characterize family life with their attendant social and health hazards. This scenario depicts some missing links between the Islamic vision of the home and the reality of Muslim homes. It is these links that this study hopes to examine among the Yoruba Muslim couples of Nigeria. The study is descriptive, while interview is the major research instrument. The paper reveals that couple’s lack of commitment, mismanagement of marital discord, mishandling of polygyny, extended family interference and economic predicament are major causes of the failure of Muslim marriages among the Yoruba. However, it is suggested that if couples are committed to their marital pledges as prescribed by Islam, other problems are surmountable and peace, love and care would resurface as envisioned by Islam.
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    Modern Trends in Muslim Marriage Reception in Nigeria
    (International Journal of Umranic Studies, 2024-01-31) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
    Muslim marriage ceremony in the contemporary Nigeria society has witnessed numerous incorporations of new value system forming an aspect of marriage ceremony in the name of modernization. The reception segment of the marriage events was one that raises some questionable features of modernity. This segment incorporated complexities with programmes that are pricey and may incite people to vices. Moreover, the desirability for this is pursued recklessly as if it is the crux of marriage ceremony. This inadvertently, make marriage a dilly-dally affair and promotion of premarital cohabitation among the youth, whereas the Islamic requirements for Nikāḥ (marriage) are simple and against vices. In the light of this, this study evaluates activities in modern marriage reception of Nigerian Muslim elites. Using descriptive analysis, the paper focuses on the marriage reception in relation to wearing of outfits, event venue and seat arrangement, feeding, dances, music, cutting of cake, presentation of ring and other side attractions. Field observation and online materials are the major research instruments used with Lagos, Kano, Minna, and Ilorin in focus. The study revealed that the use of outrageous outfits and venue, arbitrary seat arrangement and feeding of guests, daunting dances and music, institutionalisaton of the cutting of cake, presentation of ring, with humorous games and speeches as elements of integration into the Muslim marriage reception. These scenarios put at stake the Islamic principles of decency, modesty and peaceful coexistence. The paper advocates that Islamic model of celebration of marriage is the most convenient, honourable and viable for all times. Hence, Muslims are urged to use Islamic model in their marriage events to safeguard their moral sanctity, money and time
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    Narratives from Nigerian career Muslim women in the workplace: The Islamic Perspective
    (Journal of Religion and Culture, 2022) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
    The 21st century Nigeria society witnesses the influx of Muslim women in the public workforce. Their participation in the economy was multidimensional and impelled by reasons ranging from necessity to personal fulfillment. As professionals in the public and private sectors, they experienced increasing forms of abuse and temptation. Prominent among these were forceful sexual relationship, intimidation and seduction among others. Yet, these women are guarded treasure in Islam and their contributions cannot be underestimated in the modern Nigeria society. This paper, hence, investigated the precipitating factors to the aforementioned ordeals and suggested Islamic remedies to surmount the problems. The study adopted descriptive and analytical methods, using established cases, interview and observation as major research instruments. One case each was purposively selected for the encounters listed, except the forceful sexual one that had two cases, but with differing contexts. The findings revealed that unethical professional conduct of male and female colleagues, desperate recklessness for position, and matrimonial dissension were some of the causes of the career Muslim women's ordeals in Nigeria workplaces. In addition, the ensued damages were of varied degrees: to self, the family and the society. These happenings were manifestations of the flouting of Allah's warnings on moderate interaction between the sexes. This study recommended that Muslim women should fortify themselves with the Islamic cautionary. This adherence will shield them from lascivious men and numerous misconducts.
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    The paradox of female headship of Muslim families in contemporary Ilorin metropolis
    (KWASU Journal of Religious Studies, 2017) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat