This is continuation of my anti - fatwa rant...based on the firm belief that religious rulings have no place in a secular/pretending to be secular country like ours...
Power of judiciary questioned in affairs of Muslim community
The story is basically abt the religious body Darul-uloom of Khargone district that has issued a 'fatwa' recently annulling the divorce decree by a court in Sendhwa town of Madhya Pradesh in the Arjumand Bano case on the ground that the judge was a non-muslim.
Whenever I read stories like the one mentioned above I get annoyed...
Once an intervention of court is requested, there is no reason for taking into consideration what the religious leaders of a community(Hindu or Muslim or anyother) have to say...whats the point of having a Constitution or the judiciary then?
Thankfully a voice of reason has come from within the community...
Chief of Badwani (district) Muslim Jamat Tasawwar Mirza said the community will boycott the Mufti if he did not revoke the fatwa. ‘‘Though all Muslims believe in Shariat, we strongly condemn the reference to ‘‘non-Muslim magistrates’’.
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apart from the obvious issue of 'non-muslim' magistrate.. i think this case again demonstrates how patriarchal our society and how male dominated the muslim laws are.. the man says he has not 'given' her divorce.. so how can she.. a woman hv any right to go and take it from the courts if she wants to..really.. wat do these people think they are? is the law all crap for them..
As a student of law you are in a better position to answer it and also do something abt it!!
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