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Awareness campaign launched
[The Source: Hadhramaut.info - 5/7/2008]
The general programme for Information and Communication in the Ministry of Information
in coordination with the Ministry of Endowments and the United Nations Population Fund has recently inaugurated a number of campaigns to increase awareness of family planning, and launched several of these campaigns in the houses of worship "mosques and Jamas" for those places have Holiness and acceptance among the citizens.
In Mukalla, many of the preachers of mosques and imams in mosques touched upon the subject of family planning and the view of religion about it .Sheikh Nadhim Bahabarah, director of the Center for Studies and Research in Omar mosque , authorizes the use of family planning methods and denied that our religion had rejected that.He pointed out that prevention was in birth control . He said :If any muslim have special circumstances of illness or poverty, then it is ok for him to use any means of family planning and called for the need for agreement between husband and wife to use the time as they deem appropriate. For his part, Sheikh Mohammed Saeed alrubakil - Alrawdhah mosque preacher , described the issue of populationas a case of Insomniac, pointing out that birth control is the best way to resolve the issue of population explosion witnessed by our country in difficult economic circumstances, indicating that the famous Hadeeth (Saying) of the the Prophet peace be upon him that says : "I will be proud of you outnumbering the other nations " has no contradiction with family planning that makes our society free from any health maladies.
Sheikh Hassan Abdul Kader Al-Jafari , imam of Bazaraa mosque, also confirmed that the family is the mainstay to build a strong and healthy muslim society, pointing out that family planning is permissible after an agreement between ahusband and his wife . It is worth noting that the city of Mukalla and Qaten have experienced, in June, the inauguration of the ongoing campaign to increase awareness of family planning during the period from the second until the eighth from the same month.
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