Female circumcision
Circumcision of females is a matter concerning which the fuqaha’
(“jurists”) and doctors differed, but many fuqaha’
regarded
circumcision as an honour for the female. With regard to doctors,
they differed concerning female circumcision. Many doctors feel
that circumcision of the female is a kind of mutilation and that it
undermines her rights. Some of them
think that the importance
of female circumcision is different for people in the East and
people in the West, each
according to their own nature, and for
each opinion there is evidence for its soundness. There are also
those who say that it is essential
to circumcise females, and they
quote as evidence the report according to which the Messenger
of Allah (S.A.W) said: “When
the two circumcised parts meet,
ghusl (“ritual bath”) becomes obligatory.”
This difference of opinion has provoked a great deal of
controversy and the subject of female circumcision has become,
as it were, one of the major issues of our time.
This is not meant
to undermine the importance of this matter, but it has to be put
in perspective and discussed within the correct shar‘i (Islamic
legislation), social and medical context.
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