Female circumcision (sunat perempuan)

Dear mummies (muslim parents), can I check if you mummies still send your female daughters for female circumcision in this day and era? I'm asking coz my husband is a bit unwilling to let our baby girl go through such procedure as we are not able to find any supporting facts in the Quran with regards to female circumcision. I told my mum that I may not send my daughter for female Circumcision however she was kind of upset and the other day she sends me texts saying that my other siblings / her friends keep asking if we have send our girl for circumcision. Any mummies here that didn't send their girl for circumcision and may I know why? #advicepls #firstbaby #1stimemom #pleasehelp #babygirl

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Hi everyone, please prevent yourself from imposing your views and beliefs on people who practices in their religion. Sunat is not FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION. Do not scare others like this. As a Muslim, please seek your knowledge on sunat and not just take it lightly. Our religion not only specifically based on just the Qur'an, rather it also needs the adab and hadith and fatwa etc. If it's just the Qur'an then we wouldn't even begin to know how to do our five daily prayers, that's why we have our prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him to guide us through the etiquettes and practical bits of the religion. Yes it is encouraged to sunat (encouraged) daughters and wajib (need) for sons. Some reliable asatizah to ask for advice professionally and has already shared on this topic will be ustazah Shameem Sultanah or ustazah Farhana Munshi. MUIS has always stayed neutral and will tread lightly with factual statements. In any case, we are adults and Muslim and clearly able to seek knowledge and practice well. So go ahead and put in the effort for the future of your children. Apologies if my words are not full of wisdom and eloquence for I am learning more about Islam too. May Allah ease.

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