CHARMINAR: As the Central government is all set to oppose the practices of Nikah Halala and polygamy in Supreme Court, ladies rights activists within the city mentioned any choice taken via the government will have to now not be cleared with out consulting activists, lawyers and other stakeholders.
According to studies, the Centre would lengthen its support to petitioners when the matter comes up subsequent in Supreme Court.
Speaking out about the Centre’s choice, activists mentioned that the government will have to have in mind the Muslim ladies’s rights in family and marriage with out turning its choice into a device to criminalise Muslim males.
“An essential choice like this will have to now not be handed in haste. Consultations with a range of girls’s rights groups and civil society stakeholders will have to be taken into consideration,” mentioned Rafia Nausheen, a ladies’s rights activist working with Mahita NGO. However, she mentioned the practices of Nikah Halala or polygamy cannot be regarded as integral to the observe of Islam in these days's context.
Nikah Halala is a debatable observe which forbids a divorced couple from remarrying, after the pronouncement of third divorce, till the girl marries any person else, consummates her new marriage and will get divorced or widowed.
While some ladies are in opposition to the Centre’s choice, some have referred to as it backward and anti-women and need the SC to get it banned.
“I haven’t seen any Muslim guy in these days’s date marrying four ladies but when this still exists it will have to be totally banned. A complete ban on polygamy and Nikah Halala has lengthy been the will of the hour,” mentioned Alia Begum, every other ladies’s rights activist.
According to studies, the Centre would lengthen its support to petitioners when the matter comes up subsequent in Supreme Court.
Speaking out about the Centre’s choice, activists mentioned that the government will have to have in mind the Muslim ladies’s rights in family and marriage with out turning its choice into a device to criminalise Muslim males.
“An essential choice like this will have to now not be handed in haste. Consultations with a range of girls’s rights groups and civil society stakeholders will have to be taken into consideration,” mentioned Rafia Nausheen, a ladies’s rights activist working with Mahita NGO. However, she mentioned the practices of Nikah Halala or polygamy cannot be regarded as integral to the observe of Islam in these days's context.
Nikah Halala is a debatable observe which forbids a divorced couple from remarrying, after the pronouncement of third divorce, till the girl marries any person else, consummates her new marriage and will get divorced or widowed.
While some ladies are in opposition to the Centre’s choice, some have referred to as it backward and anti-women and need the SC to get it banned.
“I haven’t seen any Muslim guy in these days’s date marrying four ladies but when this still exists it will have to be totally banned. A complete ban on polygamy and Nikah Halala has lengthy been the will of the hour,” mentioned Alia Begum, every other ladies’s rights activist.
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