‘Existing personal law enough to handle most situations’
Speakers at a seminar organised by the All India Muslim Personal
Law Board on Thursday unanimously conveyed their feeling that there was no need
for a separate law for Muslim women as was being proposed by the government in
recent times.
The day-long event drew the participation of several persons of
eminence and students from across the country. Maulana Khalid Nadvi of the Nadwadul-Ulema
and Khalid Saifullah Rehmani, both members of the Board spoke extensively,
explaining how the existing personal law was enough to handle most situations
that arose in the community.
The Nadwadul-Ulema, Lucknow was till a few years ago, the first
and only Arabic university, before two more, including the Al Mahad Al Diniya
Al Arabiya and another such educational institution where the medium of
instruction is Arabic, were established here in Hyderabad.
GOs resented
Over a dozen speakers expressed their resentment against
Government Orders in some States seeking the imposition of ‘Surya Namaskar and
Vandemataram’ on school children and said it had hurt the community as a whole.
Further, they regretted that the current syllabus in schools was
coloured in ‘saffron’.
The faith of Muslims they said, was badly affected by the
concepts that were imposed on them, like ‘yoga, Surya Namaskar and Saraswati
Vandanam’.
Prohibited in Islam
According to the teachings of Islam, they said the sun, moon and
the universe were made subservient to man by God. The aim of their creation was
to benefit man and in turn, man was instructed to bow before God and express
his gratefulness.
Treating the sun as god and conveying man’s wishes and bowing
before it was prohibited in Islam, they said.
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