{"id":138844,"date":"2024-01-14T10:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/14\/approve-four-months-leave-for-widows-muric-urges-fg\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T10:13:42","slug":"approve-four-months-leave-for-widows-muric-urges-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/14\/approve-four-months-leave-for-widows-muric-urges-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Approve Four Months Leave For Widows&#8217; \u2014 MURIC Urges FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-860092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MURIC-Director-Ishaq-Akintola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"418\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) says the Federal Government should approve a four-month leave for female workers who have lost their husbands.<\/p>\n<p>Ishaq Akintola, MURIC\u2019s Executive Director, in a statement at the weekend, said female employees who lose their husbands deserve leave from work as they need to \u201cre-plan and re-engineer their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Akintola, the government does not give widows the chance to grieve or provide them with succour while mourning their husbands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur attention has been drawn to the predicament of widows nationwide regarding the way they are treated by their employers immediately after their husbands die.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019It is common knowledge that the Nigerian government does not recognize or give any particular succour to working women whose husbands die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore often than not, they are left at the mercy of their employers who may or may not give them one or two days off duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is heartless to say the least. A woman who loses her husband to the wicked hands of death is going through a harrowing experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing her husband to the cold hands of death is a tragic landmark in a woman\u2019s life. She needs sympathy, companionship and plenty of time to rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why the glorious Qur\u2019an in Chapter 2 verse 234 stipulates a recovery or waiting period of four months and ten days for Muslim women whose husbands just died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: MURIC Faults Phrank Shaibu For Linking VP Shettima With Boko Haram<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the command comes from the glorious Qur\u2019an makes it a fundamental human right enjoined by Allah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is Allah-given. It is divine, not human. Therefore, no individual homo sapien, institution or government should oppose or deny it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis period is called \u2018iddah in Islam. A new Muslim widow must observe the \u2018iddah not only for her to recover but also for her and her husband\u2019s family to ascertain if she has been pregnant before the husband died. She is expected to remain indoors throughout the period,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Muslim organisation is committed to advocating for the welfare of Nigerians, particularly women and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore demand a four and a half months leave for all widows working in federal, state and private establishments. We note with immense pleasure that even men now enjoy paternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis widows\u2019 leave therefore becomes a question of good conscience for states that have already granted paternity leave to men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor if men enjoy paternity leave when their wives deliver new babies, it stands both logic and good conscience on their heads if we fail to extend similar relief to distressed and twice vulnerable widows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMURIC charges Islamic organisations and Islamic scholars to begin the lobby on the corridors of state governments practicing Shari\u2019ah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have no alibi for not implementing this Shari\u2019ah-compliant policy for widows,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1967291609\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) says the Federal Government should approve a four-month leave for female workers who have lost their husbands. 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