Islamic scholar Sheikh Ishmael Odum says the laws of Ghana have made it difficult for them to punish Muslim youth who indulge in premarital sex.
According to him, the act is forbidden and considered a grave sin that bears serious consequences in this world and after life.
Speaking in a phone interview with Max Morning Dew on Monday, Sheikh Odum explained that Islam gives sex a form of esteemed status by limiting it to the husband-wife relationship.
Therefore, youth were not expected to fornicate and considered it a double “Haram” should fornicators extend it to the month of Ramadan.
Sheikh said per the Islamic laws, any fornicator had to be canned 100 lashes, stressing that a man was not even supposed to see the thighs of a woman who he was not married to.
“However, the laws in the country are opposed to our Islamic laws. Now when a Muslim fornicates, we cannot give that culprit 100 lashes,” he lamented.
Sheikh Odum said sex only followed a commitment as a visible sign of total giving of self to and for others, and the gift became an act of bonding that was open to the creation of new life.
When used otherwise, he said it would diminish the gift, corrupt human nature, and destroy relationships with Allah; hence, he advised youth to desist from the act.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
