CENTRE HAILS ROLE OF WOMEN

By Cosmas Pahalah Dar es Salaam. The Cultural Centre of the Islamic Republic of Iran has called for emphasis on the role of women in families in order to build a good society for the country’s development. The Cultural counselor of the Iranian Embassy, Mr Morteza Sabouri, said there was the possibility of having a more productive and decent generation in the future if women would raise their children properly. Speaking during a one-day seminar on women’s rights in Islam held in Dar es Salaam over the weekend, he said women have a major role in shaping the future generation as they play a great part in the family. “It is important to emphasise the need to have good families because when you destroy a family, it means you have destroyed a society too,” Mr Morteza said. Attended by tens of Islamic women, the seminar was organised by the Iranian Cultural Centre in Collaboration with the Association of Muslim Women of Tanzania (Juwakita) in commemoration of the birthday of Hadrat Fatima, the daughter of the Holy prophet S.A.W. For her part, the chairperson of Juwakita, Ms Shamim Khan, said women have to monitor their children and give them timely advice. She said a woman was regarded as a role model to her children, hence, if by any chance a child went astray the first person to be blamed was the mother. “We as women have common areas of concern that need to be addressed with concerted efforts. One vital area is education, an ongoing process that many of us lack,” she noted. “An educated woman will be in a better position to teach her children the lawful and the unlawful… bring them up with good values and make them  reliable future citizens.” However, she blamed to a larger extent the deterioration in values in children on globalisation.

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