Haidar's Corner

April 9, 2012 at 10:58am The degrading and inhuman living conditions that many women are forced to go through can never be justified under whatever guise. The worst part is that such living conditions aren't shared by many men who rarely go through these things being outside the home-front most of their time. And what is in need of being reformed transcends a woman going to work. It encompasses empowerment in the form of a woman knowing how to take care of her hygiene and that of her siblings/children. A woman having the enabling environment to make local spaghetti, sell it, and over time one day turn this into a mini factory that sells packaged spaghetti. A woman being able to stitch and weave cloths in her bedroom and use the proceeds to help her brothers and sisters and parents to make ends meet and perhaps her siblings can gain the educational resources that she couldn't get. And it is these sort of activities that need to be documented so that when...

There's so such much literature about women in general that one sometimes wonders whether it has not gradually become cliche-like to write about them. Yet with all the innumerable 'texts' that flood everywhere I stand to be corrected when I posit that 'The Woman' remains largely misunderstood both in the context of the male-dominated worldview as well as from the prism of many women's self-perception. For instance how else would you explain the endless abuse that women continue to endure.  Anyway, let me not digress from the crux of this writeup which I put up in an attempt to discuss Womanhood from the standpoint of Islam. To start with let us begin with 'Genesis'. As is common knowledge the first Woman - Hauwa'u(AS) - was created from the rib of Adam (AS). In the Holy Quran Allah (SWT) said:  .وَمِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ. [Wamin kulli shay-in khalaqn[a] zawjayni laAAallakum ta[th]...

If a person cannot dispose of a wrapper of sweet in the dustbin...then he is undisciplined and should not be considered for leadership. See why things don't work in Naija.... Today if a person was to start a tour from the early morning hours uptil bedtime...one would come to understand that the so-called corruption that we daily complain about has it's roots from our personal lives. Most people do not appreciate the value of doing many trivialities and it is these that grow into monsters that are uncontrollable. Many do not care about maintenance culture because they cannot 'afford it'!  Many do not ever think about their garbage once it leaves their gate (for those who are meticulous enough to dispose it outside).  Many do not care to suppress their brother or sister's property (some as little as N5) once we have a chance....tell me how there will not be embezzlement of billions when they reach 'there'... Many lie as a matter...

Many atimes we talk about various problems in our society and we seek to identify the causal factors behind them. In this piece, we intend to look at the root of most if not all the societal malaise that encumbers all and sundry in this modern day. This root is none other than the family institution. The institution of the family is being destroyed today by the ravages of modern agents of socialization and being that it (the family) is the bedrock of all communities, society is daily slipping into a chasm of chaos and moral degradation. I will go straight and say that at the centre of these happenings is the father-figure who is expected to be the guardian and leading light for his household guiding them towards value-driven and morally-upright up-bringing. Alas, today you find that such a fundamental role and responsibility has been abandoned by many and the duties incumbent upon men is no longer seen as a sacred trust that needs full commitment and continuous sacrifice ...