The meeting was called by Maulana Moin Ashraf, who heads the Madrasa in which over 50 Maulanas attended the meet
A group of Maulanas on Tuesday said the Triple Talaq Bill that was recently passed in Lok Sabha was interfering in the personal laws of Muslim community. They had gathered at the Jamia Qadria Ashrafia Madrassa near Grant Road to “Analyse and publicise the mischief behind Triple Talaq Bill”.
The meeting was called by Maulana Moin Ashraf, who heads the Madrasa in which over 50 Maulanas attended the meet. “The Bill is an interference in our personal law. We will take this issue to the Supreme Court,” said Mufti Saleem Akhtar, a cleric from Malad.
“We will go to SC if this happens. We are also planning a gathering of women against this. It is injustice and joke on democracy. It is against Article 25 and 26 of the Constitution,” said Ashraf.
When asked that since Supreme Court had declared triple talaq (instant triple talaq) as invalid and unconstitutional, should there not be a penal provision to punish people who continued to do so? And that women in the community demanded that there be a penal provision, in case people continued to give triple talaq, Ashraf said: “There are many things that are wrong but there is no punishment for them in Quran. Women who have been supporting this Bill are hired and paid Muslims. This is being done to harass the community. Ninety-nine per cent people in the community are against this Bill and only a handful is supporting it.”
However, Noorjehan Safia Niaz said, “These guys will never agree. It is foolish to even expect them to come around. They have realised that they are irrelevant. The whole world has legislated. It is the Ulemas themselves who had approached the British government for a law in 1937 and 1939. Demanding legislation is not new. This very board was responsible for the Divorce Act in 1986. Their contradiction and misogyny is evident. When they approach it is fine, but not when women do.”
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- Meeting was called by Maulana Moin Ashraf, who heads the Madrasa in which over 50 Maulanas attended the meet.
- “The Bill is an interference in our personal law. We will take this issue to the Supreme Court,” said Mufti Saleem Akhtar, a cleric from Malad.
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