Speaking without thinking

i think the most common attitude malaysians have in themselves is talking without thinking especially during an interview.

Yayasan Salam consultant and Rumah NurSalam adviser Dr Hartini Zainuddin said people who had planned to adopt a child from the home had “pulled out.”

“Adoptive parents and certainly the father would have a reasonable expectation that he would be named as the father of the child as he fully expects to act in the role of the child's father for the remainder of the child's life.

“It is only natural that such fathers would remain reluctant to enter into any adoption,'' she added.

The latest that arises in our nation is that it is ILLEGAL to named adoptive children after the adoptive father. This in fact is TRUE in ISLAM which was made a rule 400 years ago and only do our honourable minister Syed Hamid Albar decides to act upon.

It has several implications of which i think Dr.Hartini has fallen shortsigheted on if ever the adoptive child is made to 'bin / binti' after the adoptive father. In Islam (as I learnt from Dr.Asri's Munakahat Classes, do correct me if im wrong) the adoptive child can never inherit from the parents, plus the limitations of fatherly-daughter relationship is limited due to the fact that it is not his child by blood, albeit he fed and clothes all her life. It is the same goes with adoptive mother-son relation, they are still considered non-mahrams unless the adoptive mother suckle the child herself then it is considered 'anak susuan'. this is another lengthy chapter in itself.

all in all what i am trying to say is that one must talk in the aspect of Islamic law when you consider all things in life. in the case of the Dr.Hartini; in all her experience of dealing with adoptions and process i would have thought that she knew better than to make such statements. Islam protects the family and the bloodlines so that cases of incest does not happen. A child with the adoptive father's name might never know that she has a biological father and cases where she wants to marry, she still have to have her biological father present as wali.

Therefore I totally agree with the new ruling as it saves a whole lot of hassle when it comes to the child's life in later years. I do hope Islamic Scholars and relevant authorities shed some light on this misconception, let the those parents pull out from applying for adoption as ts shows they know little of islamic way of life. the secular rule does not apply here, it is matter of islamic jurispudence and so i hope irrelevant personality would quit commenting on such matter. as always talk in way of islamic fiqah then present your comment; we are muslims after all aren't we Dr.Hartini?