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No provision for child adoption in Islam
Legal and social experts have stressed the need to galvanise individual and national efforts to prevent orphaned or lost children being handed over to adults that are not blood relations. Besides ongoing relief efforts and the reconstruction of affected areas, the government has been urged to make the protection of orphans and children a priority. According to a rough estimate, some 50,000 children have either been orphaned or separated from their parents by the earthquake. So far no programme exists to ensure the psychological rehabilitation or care of these children. The future of these children has legal, social and moral implications. Although the government has recently banned the adoption of orphans to prevent the risk of child abuse, the illegal transfer of minors into âunsafe handsâ is said to have continued. Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, while defining the current adoption policy said, âA narrow view of the adoption policy is that Islam prohibits adoption. This is derived from Quranic injunction regarding âZaydâ who was companion of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him). The Quran prohibits adoption so that no illegal heir can inherit the orphanâs property.â Nonetheless, he said, the adoption was perfectly legal as the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) himself was adopted by his grandfather and then, on the demise of his grandfather, by his uncle. Posted by: Fred 2005-10-21 |
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