President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished Muslim parents to invest in the education of their female children.
According to Akufo-Addo, Islam’s revered holy Prophet, Mohammed, spoke against what he described as ‘gender injustice,’ adding that any move in educating female children was synonymous to honouring the teachings of the prophet.
“It is important for us to recollect that one of the cardinal teachings of Prophet Mohammed is gender injustice. Remember that before the advent of Islam, women in Arabia were treated as secondary citizens and female infanticide was rife; a situation the Quran alludes to when it states that when the Day of Judgment ‘the female buried alive would be questioned for what crime she was killed.’”
“The Prophet restored the dignity of the woman, which we are required to uphold. It is not for nothing that the Prophet urges us to learn half of our religion from Aisha, a woman. This Prophetic admonishment resembles Kwegyir Aggrey’s oft-quoted statement that ‘if you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation,’” the president added.
President Akufo-Addo made the remark when he addressed Muslims at the Eid ul Fitr celebration held at the Independence square in Accra on Monday.
The Eid celebration is a day set aside to mark the end of a 30-day fasting by Muslims, and also begins the month of Shawwal in the Islamic calendar.
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