The Islamic Perspective on Child Abuse and Building a Healthy Society

Abstract

Child abuse has far beyond being a societal issue that worries me as it brings in a great renown challenge of both prevention and intervention that calls for a discussion of the proper solutions. Herein are cited Quranic verses and Hadiths indicating the Islamic worldview on cruelty against the children, including the overwhelming emphasis of the Holy Scripture on the well-being of the little ones and absolute prohibition of any violence. This essay goes on to discuss how through analyzing Islamic teachings associated with parental responsibility, compassion, and children's rights it seeks to epitomize how they come to be the basic pillars on which such communities find their solutions to preventing and eventually resolving cases of child abuse among Muslims In addition, the work points out the higher social risk associated with child abuse as a whole, which takes into account that this social problem affects the whole healthy part of the development and welfare state of children. Through a study of Islamic principles, this paper supports the taking of measures leading to the establishment of an environment that will cultivate and protect the health, rights and welfare of children and build for the people of this society the fundamental pillars that hold it together.

Keywords: Child Abuse, Islamic Teachings, Societal Issues, Parental Responsibilities, Rights