Muslim women smash false propaganda against Muslim Personal Law; say so-called liberal groups used as tool by anti-Islamic forces.
Abdul Bari Masoud
New Delhi: Strongly condemning the false propaganda and tirade against Islamic law unleashed by some letter-head organizations and women andolans with a section of media, highly-qualified Muslim women today announced that they will not accept any change in the Muslim Personal Law and alleged the “so called” Muslims liberal groups and andolans are being used as tools by anti Muslim Personal Law forces in the country.
Muslim personal board woman members said they vehemently opposed any amendment in the Sharia Law arguing that it guaranteed them equal rights and protect their dignity and self respect. They asked the media and so-called sympathizers of womenfolk that why Muslims are only targeted and blamed for the poor status of Women in India. Dowry death, child marriages, female foeticide and crimes against women are rampant in India Society.
In the wake of continued attack on Sharia law, woman executive committee members of All India Muslim Personal Law Board addressed media persons at the Press Club of India here to smash the web of falsehoods created by some dubious character ‘Muslim women with the help of a ‘biased’ media.
Dr. Asma Zehra (Executive Member AIMPLB) asserted that divorce rate is least in the Muslim Community. Quoting an article published in the Hindustan Times to support her point, Dr Asma stated that in India the Divorce rate in metro cities of Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore has increased to 350% in last 5 years. Bangalore had 3 family courts which were increased to six last year. Majority of couples seeking Divorce belong to IT sector and there are many cases seeking Divorce within months of Marriage.
“Then why are Muslims targeted for Divorce, and why is Muslim Personal Law being attacked that it is prone to misuse”, she asked.
Woman members said the so-called and self-styled organizations have presented a false concocted data in their survey report, in which it was shown that 92% of Muslim women were in favour of Ban on Triple Talaq & amendments in the Muslim Personal Law. It was also presented that 50 thousand men & women have signed a petition to the NCW (National commission for Women) to abolish the Muslim code for divorce.
They said they strongly denounced such survey & self made petitions saying a section of Media is only highlighting the issue of Triple Talaq to show that huge numbers of Muslims Women are suffering because of this provision. However, it never pays any attention to towards pathetic condition of Muslim women.
In Islam Talaq “Divorce” is an unpleasant discouraged act. If both the partners fail to reconcile, then divorce is a Safe – exit for unsuccessful marriages.
The methodology & procedure of Divorce is clearly explained in Qur’an & Hadith. Triple Talaq or Divorce in one sitting is a Bidath (Discouraged) form of Divorce. The Media is portraying this matter with hype & out of proportion.
They said that such fringe groups & andolans have no credibility amongst Muslim masses and they have no right to advocate for any changes, amendments in Muslim Personal Law on behalf the Muslim community.
They said that Muslim women of this country have full faith with Muslim Personal Law and all those persons who want change and unprincipled life style are free to follow the civil code of the country. They can get married under the Special Marriages Act.
Secondly the allegation of Gender bias is repeatedly raised to attack Islam & Muslims. It is portrayed that Islamic Law is “Anti women” & “Cruel”
Islam guarantees equal rights to both Men & Women. Men are given the role of care taker of family and ordered to treat women kindly. India ranks 136 in gender equality. Some corners are raising demands for divorce through courts. The present Lower & High Courts are already burdened with large number of cases. Average time for disposal is 4 to 8 years. If any party files for higher court then the disposal time period will be more that 8 to 12 yrs.
In contrast Muslim personal Law has simple easier more successful way of solving family disputes though Darul Qaza or Shariah courts. Shariah courts support & lesson the burden of Judiciary.
Saira Banu and Afreen have filed a petition the Supreme Court. These cases may take years. No court in the world can ban Divorce & force any person to continue married life.
“We will not tolerate any interference in the Muslim Personal Law. All the Muslims Group, organizations, Jamaats, Masalak, unintedly oppose any effort to make amendments in “Divorce” Laws. We shall try to protect our basic constitutional right by peaceful democratic way”.
Besides Dr. Asma Zehra, the press conference was also addressed by Mrs. Mamduha Majid, Member AIMPLB, and Mrs. Zinat Mehtab Convener Islah-e-Moashra for Delhi Women, Prof. Samina Tabish Joint Convener Islah-e-Moashra for Delhi Women and Mrs. Umme Aimen Member Islah-e-Moashra for Delhi Women. They were flanked by AIMPLB executive member Kamal Farooqui who also spoke on the occasion.
Indeed divorce is a curse to human society.
Must we Muslin male go for Brides beauty & Dowry or look for the
ALLAH fearing people?
We know its a grave situation in both East & west.
Muslim Youth must come forward to mend the broken society if they want to live with piety social amity & honor.
We invite Muslim Society to create a Social welfare funds to help
poor Muslims in need..
Awesome!!
Organisation like Hizb-ut-Tahrir and iERA should be firmly established in India to counter media garbage and hypocrites.
5 women in support and 5 lakhs against the practise of triple talaaq? How is that a slap in the face?
hahah … nice reply
5 truthful are more than enough for 5 lakhs or more liars.
Ibrahim bhai – Yes, you are absolutely correct. This is world of ALLAH, the supreme LORD. He will reward 5 truthful and faithful, HE don’t bother 5 lakh astray people…………HIS command of 5 seconds of earthquake is sufficient to perish 5 lakh.
The Government is concerned about the triple talaq.Why government /court set free Muzaffarnagar and Gujrat rapists who mercilessly raped Muslim girls. Why the Government not concerned about the honor of these Muslim women who were raped by Sanghi teroorrists. Why justice was not done to Muislim women of Muzaffarnagar and Gujrat. Why Khattar said that the rape of Muslim Girls was a trivial issue. Where was Common Civil Code against the rapists
Sharia law was made 1500 years ago. It was based upon the mentality of society 1500 years ago which has barbaric mentality. How can such law is applicable now? Any law is based upon the current mentality of society. Now we live in a democratic world.
I also like to add here that any law has to be made by those who are going to follow it. No body else can prepare such law.. not even Allah can prepare law for muslim community.
Hence it is required that muslim community should prepare new modern laws which can study present social mentality so that new laws won’t be called as cruel.
Take an example of Hindu community. 200 years back Hindu women did not have right to remarry & they used to follow ‘Sati pratha’. Now such laws have been abolished & due to this social status of Hindu women has been cultivated…
Let me expose some fallacies that you have committed.
#1. First of all, the word Shariah itself means LAW. Just like the word Torah means Law for the Jews.
#2. Next, you are ignorant in To-To. Because you said Shariah is barbaric. Just to give you an example. When Islam was revealed, people used to bury their daughters alive. Shariah came and uprooted such practices.
#3. Next you say “NOT EVEN ALLAH CAN PREPARE LAW”. Excuse Me! This is God’s world and God’s Law should run not any Tom-Dick-Harry’s law. One Man shouldn’t tell another Man what to do and what not. Only God can command. Let me give you an example of Man Made Law. For e.g., In Nazi Germany it is okay to kill JEWS. I ask you was that Law BY Hitler a GOOD ONE? Of course not. Man has always made laws to fulfil their whims and desires and hence not Objective. You have an erroneous belief that God’s laws should adjust and change in order to fit our culture and societies. However, it is our culture and societies that should change in order to adapt to God’s laws.This is God’s world and God’s laws should be established to govern. Not the laws of any Tom , Dick and Harry.
#4. Finally, SHARIAH is Universal for all time and all places. It has no bound.
So Sharia says, a woman needs to get 3 eye witness to prove that she was raped? That is gods law, right? DNA Evidence, let it go to hell???
By the way are you educated enough to understand what is a DNA???
Dear Shazz bhai –
Thanks for your thunderbolt response to ignorant and venom spewing man Secular Hindu. His name does not match with his words. Better this man to be regarded as Extremist Hindu, not Secular Hindu.
Spewing venom against Islam is his nature.
May Almighty Allah Subhanahu Ta’ala bestow his blessings to you.
@shaaz..it means Allah is only 1500 yes old ..he he lol…law is only made for d betterment of society according to d time and place,u HV to go chaina or other country whr diff laws exist for Muslims nd follows too,tell me 1 tng if u HV to do something u can do only by law .dat is made by allah ,oo god hw ridiculous ,laws only made when to curb such wrong practices nd can b alter according to situations.. ppl can’t CNG it alter d law of Allah ..& dere is only law I understand DAT is if u will born ..u will die only day ..isn’t it..now dat law u can say its allah’s law …
@Shaaz Momin,
No law is perfect. People who follow the law makes it perfect. Unfortunately Shria is a barbaric law in present society & hence people won’t wish to follow it. Keep in mind people have also been created by God like Sharia. then why god created such people who do not wish to follow his laws?
You gave example of Nazi law. It is not acceptable since it was not prepared through democracy. I believe that democracy should be supreme & people opinion should be taken into account before imposing any law on society.
Laws are made to maintain peace & stability in the society. If any law cannot bring peace & stability then such laws need to be abolished.
Man-made laws are never perfect…But Creator’s law for his creation,that too by Creator about WHOME it has been stated that whole creation is HIS family(ayaal) depicting his love for his creation, is flawless…most perfect..and beneficial,, even if its stoning to death of a married rapist or cutting of hands of thief..God has created this whole universe HE alone knows its details and intricacies…if human beings use this universe as per HIS laws it will be most peaceful place to live and life will be bliss and if they follow their whims and desires, the system is bound to crash.. Android will never ever work on iphone..and if you try, you will destroy the phone..because iphone can function only using iOS…For this you must first accept that Apple developed iphone, but if you insist that I don’t recognise Apple and I will do whatever I want with my Phone because I paid for it…it will not be Apple’s lost but yours only…So do some research about God and His messengers and for purpose in life..Believe in HIM, practice as HE says and you will see fruits and benefits or after death, which no one of us can escape, everyone of us will for sure see the truth..But no use of knowing the answers after the paper is over when you didn’t attempt it in examination hall….THIS LIFE IS FIRST AND LAST CHANCE
HEARTY THANKS to brother NADEEM, BHIWANDI for your ‘TEETH BREAKING’ answer to Secular Hindu.
His name does not match with his words. Better this man to be regarded as Extremist Hindu, not Secular Hindu.
Spewing venom against Islam is his nature.
First you decide what is a meaning of perfect law? Either perfect law is the law that will get human being to heaven or perfect law is a law which will be followed by many people & bring peace in society.
Muslim community’s perfect law definition to get into heaven. And due to this you can see Islamic terrorists who are following inhuman practices like raping slave women on the religious grounds. You said that god has created this world & hence only god can prepare perfect law. I do not have any problem to follow gods law if it is under supervision of god itself. What muslims are doing is they are imposing Sharia & it is under supervision of human beings only. For example, in Iran, alcohol is banned. However, if you consume alcohol then you simply pay bribe to police & get acquitted. Now you tell me what is a use of such law?
On the other side, we believe that perfect law is the one which is made by men in democratic way so that it will be properly implemented & will bring peace.
The Government is concerned about the triple talaq.Why government /court set free Muzaffarnagar and Gujrat rapists who mercilessly raped Muslim girls. Why the Government not concerned about the honor of these Muslim women who were raped by Sanghi teroorrists. Why justice was not done to Muislim women of Muzaffarnagar and Gujrat. Why Khattar said that the rape of Muslim Girls was a trivial issue. Where was Common Civil Code against the rapists
“At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.”
? Criss Jami, Killosophy
Marriage in Islam is a sign of God’s power and glory. The Qur’ãn says:
“From His signs is that He has created for you spouses from yourselves so that you may get peace [and tranquility] through them; and He placed between you love and mercy. In these are signs for the people who reflect.” (Surah ar-Room, 30:21)
In Islam, the ideal marriage is the monogamous form of marriage. Limited polygyny is a provision approved by Islam for exceptional circumstances only; and that also with many stringent conditions.2
Vast majority of Muslim men are monogamous in their marriage relationships; those who have more than one wife are very few, probably less than zero point one percent of the Muslim world.
Islam did not invent the system of polygamy.
polygamy has existed from the earliest days of human history.
Lamech, the grandson of Adam, had two wives.
Abraham had two wives: Sarah & Hajar.
Jacob had two wives & two concubines:
The Twelve of Tribes of Israel are from these four ladies.
David had many wives.
How many wives is a Hindu man permitted?
Well, the fact actually is, that according to the Hindu scriptures, a hindu can have more than one wife.
According to the scriptures, a Hindu marriage is indissolvable in life. Still polygamy was rampantly practised in ancient Hindu society. An address by Bhishma to King Yudhishthira in the Mahabharata, succinctly endorses this fact: “A Brahmana can take three wives. A Kshatriya can take two wives. As regards the Vaishya, he should take a wife from only his own order. The children born of these wives should be regarded as equal.” (Anusasana Parva, Section XLIV).
It was only in 1954 that the Indian Constitution passed a law, as the Hindu Marraige Act that a hindu can marry only one. Otherwise before that polygamy was allowed,
In a survey, there were more hindus with many wives as compared to muslims. Hindus should fight for their right according to hindu scriptures. And practically, there are more females than males, so where would the rest of the females marry.
Hindu Gods has more then one wife. Lord Krishna had 8 wifes. And father of Lord Rama had Three.
At present it is the Indian Law that restricts a Hindu man from having more than one wife and not the Hindu scriptures.
Qur’an is the only religious book on the face of the earth that says ‘marry only one’. The context of this phrase is the following verse from Surah Nisa of the Glorious Qur’an: “Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one.” [Al-Qur’an 4:3] Before the Qur’an was revealed, there was no upper limit for polygyny and many men had scores of wives, some even hundreds. Islam put an upper limit of four wives. Islam gives a man permission to marry two, three or four women, only on the condition that he deals justly with them. In the same chapter i.e. Surah Nisa verse 129 says: “Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women….” [Al-Qur’an 4:129] Therefore polygyny is not a rule but an exception.
In Western society, it is common for a man to have mistresses and/or multiple extra-marital affairs, in which case, the woman leads a disgraceful, unprotected life. The same society, however, cannot accept a man having more than one wife, in which women retain their honourable, dignified position in society and lead a protected life. Thus the only two options before a woman who cannot find a husband is to marry a married man or to become public property. Islam prefers giving women the honourable position by permitting the first option and disallowing the second. There are several other reasons, why Islam has permitted limited polygyny, but it is mainly to protect the modesty of women.
What bullshit. It shows the deobandi mentality of this publication. Countless women’s lives are destroyed because of triple talaq. The world has rejected it. And these asses who claim to be muslim’s representatives – by the way who made them our representative? – oppose any meaningful changes!
Throw them in the Arbian sea.