Prison Yard Visitation

 

Prison Yard Visitation Committee is a standing committee under the social and welfare department of MSSN, University of Ibadan branch. The committee is set up to see to the Islamic and welfare of the prison inmates.

Its aim and objective

The aims and objective of PYVC are as follows:

  1. Islamic Reformation - The Committee aims at reforming inmates islamically and also to revert or convert Muslims and non-muslim to the fold of islam. This is to be achieved through visitation to prisons for Da'wah
  2. Relief Materials -The committee aims at providing relief materials like toiletries, food, Islamic materials, clothes and wears etc to inmates to take care of their needs.
  3. Keeping their hope alive – The committee keeps inmates’ hope alive for better future.

What we do

Litigation services – The committee with the aid of Muslim Lawyers intervene in cases of unjustly defamed prisoners in conformity with the constitution of the state and within the limit of the committee.

 

Quran

"(17. It is not for the Mushrikin, to maintain the Masjids of Allah, while they witness against themselves of disbelief. The works of such are in vain and in Fire shall they abide.) (18. The Masjids of Allah shall be maintained only by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day; perform the Salah, and give Zakah and fear none but Allah. It is they who are on true guidance.)"
TMQ 9:17-18
 
 

Hadiths

"O son of Adam, I fell ill and you visited Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so had fallen ill and you visited him not? Did you not know that had you visited him you would have found Me with him? O son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not? Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found that (the reward for doing so) with Me? O son of Adam, I asked you to give Me to drink and you gave Me not to drink. He will say: O Lord, how should I give You to drink whin You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: My servant So-and-so asked you to give him to drink and you gave him not to drink. Had you given him to drink you would have surely found that with Me."
Hadith Qudsi