…..also published in Daily Trust
While the ongoing debate generated by Sarkin
Kano Muhammadu Sunusi’s social reform proposals is gradually subsiding, one
can’t fail to observe how what was supposed to be an intellectually rich debate
degenerated into a free-for-all argument replete with disparaging innuendoes and
even explicit insults.
Sarkin Kano Muhammadu Sunusi ll
Incidentally, though Sarki’s proposed solutions
to some negative social practices in the society that triggered the controversy
can be described as radical, yet, I, for one, consider the amount of the ensuing
controversy too disproportionate. Besides, I believe that, should those proposals
be exhaustively and objectively scrutinized under relevant Islamic
jurisprudential standards, and in the context of our peculiar socio-cultural
circumstances, most of them will certainly turn out to be compliant with the
intendment of the relevant Islamic provisions.
