Deal with lawlessness during Eid - Chief Imam
The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, has urged the security services to deal with young people who over-indulge in the Eid celebrations to cause harm to others.
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“We call on the security services to be up and doing and apply the law when it becomes necessary, so that we won’t uphold the culture of impunity,” the Spokesperson for the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu, told the Daily Graphic in an interview.
He said to over-indulge in the celebrations was contradictory to the spirit of Ramadan.
Ramadan & Eid
The Eid celebrations in some communities across the country are characterised by reckless driving and motorbike riding, sometimes resulting in serious injuries to other celebrants and some members of the public.
But Sheikh Sharubutu said such acts were a “demonstration of indiscipline which should not be encouraged and allowed to continue unaddressed. It is the downside of the celebration where people ride recklessly and jeopardise the lives of others”.
Election peace
With the 2016 elections less than 130 days away, the Chief Imam urged Muslims and all Ghanaians to intercede on behalf of the country through prayers and supplications for God to maintain and deepen the peace the country was currently enjoying.
While commending the Muslim community, Sheikh Sharubutu said: “By God’s grace and providence, we were granted good health and means of sustenance that kept us going throughout the period.
“The celebration affords us the opportunity to be thankful to God, glorify and magnify Him for taking us through the spiritual exercise.”
Reflect
He said as the faithful enjoyed the period, it was important that they reflected and contemplated on the inner meaning of fasting.
“We must go beyond the symbolic abstention from eating and drinking and connect our minds, spirit and souls with the very purpose for which fasting was done as a pillar of our religion.
“We must emerge out of the season as changed people, morally transformed, ethically conscious and spiritually revitalised. This condition will become our strength as we journey through the coming months,” he said.