On Orphan’s Day in the Islamic World: the OIC Renews its Call to Promote Awareness of Orphans’ Issues and Needs

Date: 15/04/2022

The Muslim world observes on the fifteenth of Ramadan every year the Day of the Muslim Orphan. The Council of Foreign Ministers of the Member States, in its Fortieth session, held in Conakry, Republic of Guinea, December 2013, passed a Resolution marking the fifteenth day of Ramadan of each year as an orphan day in the Islamic world to raise awareness of their issues and needs.

The observance of this day comes under exceptional circumstances requiring a different approach to ensure comprehensive care and sponsorship for orphans. More efforts are needed in this regard especially in light of the various repercussions of the COVID 19, disasters and conflicts in some OIC Member States.

In more than one place in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Islam has urged us to give orphans the best treatment to sponsor and take care of them at the level of education, health, social life and living conditions, and to preserve their rights, and to raise them well.

As an expression of the OIC interest in this cherished category of the society and their issues and concerns, the OIC General Secretariat will hold an interactive symposium on this occasion at 13:30 hrs, Makkah Al Mukarramah time, April 18, 2022. Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Shuaib, Head of Studies and Fatwa Department at the International Islamic Fiqh Academy will be the keynote speaker. The symposium will address the efforts of humanitarian and social bodies and institutions concerned with orphans in a number of Member States.

On this occasion, the OIC General Secretariat renews its invitation to all Member States and humanitarian organizations to carry out appropriate activities to serve the causes of orphans.

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