Postby ZubeirAwal » Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:40 am
the big mistake Siad Barre made was tampering with the Quran, especially Surat Al Nisa, by saying that both males and females are equal in inheritance. As you may remember, 10 Somali sheikhs who objected to this and made speeches in Abdulkadir Mosque after Friday prayers were immediately imprisoned and executed, and several hundred were imprisoned.
He went against this verse:
"Allah chargeth you concerning (the provision for) your children: to the male the equivalent of the portion of two females, and if there be women more than two, then theirs is two-thirds of the inheritance, and if there be one (only) then the half. And to each of his parents a sixth of the inheritance, if he have a son; and if he have no son and his parents are his heirs, then to his mother appertaineth the third; and if he have brethren, then to his mother appertaineth the sixth, after any legacy he may have bequeathed, or debt (hath been paid). Your parents and your children: Ye know not which of them is nearer unto you in usefulness. It is an injunction from Allah. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise."