New Delhi: The All India Muslim Private Regulation Board (AIMPLB) on Sunday asserted that the Supreme Court docket verdict on upkeep to Muslim girls was in opposition to Islamic legislation and authorised its president to discover all attainable measures to make sure that this choice is overturned.
The board additionally determined to problem within the Uttarakhand Excessive Court docket the Uniform Civil Code introduced within the state. After a gathering of its working committee right here, the board adopted a decision which acknowledged that the latest judgment of the Supreme Court docket on the upkeep of Muslim divorcee girls is “in opposition to the Islamic legislation (Shariah)”.
The Muslim physique’s assertions got here days after the Supreme Court docket dominated {that a} Muslim lady can search upkeep from her husband underneath Part 125 of the CrPC and stated the “faith impartial” provision is relevant to all married girls no matter their faith.
A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih in a separate however concurring verdict stated, “(a) Part 125 of the CrPC applies to all married girls together with Muslim married girls. (b) Part 125 of the CrPC applies to all non-Muslim divorced girls.”
In a press release, issued after the assembly, the AIMPLB stated, “The Board emphasised that the Holy Prophet had talked about that amongst all permissible deeds probably the most abhorred is divorce within the sight of Allah, therefore it’s fascinating to proceed the wedding by making use of all permissible measures to safeguard it and observe a number of tips talked about in Holy Quran about it.”
“Nevertheless, if married life turns into troublesome to keep up, then divorce was prescribed as an answer to mankind,” it stated. The board noticed that this judgment will create additional issues to girls who’ve efficiently come out of their painful relationship, the assertion stated.
The AIMPLB authorised its president, Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, to provoke all attainable measures “authorized, constitutional and democratic” to make sure that this choice by the Supreme Court docket is “rolled again”, AIMPLB spokesperson SQR Ilyas stated at a press convention right here.
5 different resolutions, together with one in opposition to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), have been additionally handed through the assembly of the working committee of the AIMPLB.
The board identified that in keeping with Article 25, all non secular entities have the proper to observe their faith, which is a elementary proper enshrined within the Structure, the assertion stated.
The AIMPLB additionally acknowledged that in “our multi-religious and multi-cultural nation, UCC is impractical and undesirable” and therefore, any makes an attempt to implement it’s in opposition to the spirit of the nation and the rights ensured for minorities, in keeping with the assertion.
Subsequently, the central or state governments ought to chorus from drafting UCC legal guidelines, it stated. The board additional noticed that the choice to implement UCC in Uttarakhand was incorrect and pointless, and in addition in opposition to the constitutional safeguards given to the minorities.
Subsequently, the board has determined to problem the Uttrakhand UCC within the excessive courtroom, and directed its authorized committee to file a petition, the assertion stated. It was additionally resolved on the assembly that the Waqf properties are a legacy created by the Muslims for particular charity functions, and due to this fact, they alone needs to be entitled to be its sole beneficiary, it stated. The board strongly condemned any makes an attempt of the governments to weaken or eradicate the Waqf legislation.
In a decision, it was famous that the outcomes of the parliamentary elections indicated that the folks of the nation have expressed their deep resentment in direction of the agenda based mostly on hatred and malice.
“It’s anticipated that the frenzy of mob lynching would finish now. The federal government continues to fail in its obligations to supply safety to the disadvantaged and the marginalized Muslims and decrease castes residents of India,” the assertion stated. In one other decision, the board pressured on the implementation of the Locations of Worship Act.
“It’s a matter of nice concern as to how the decrease courts are entertaining the brand new disputes associated to the Gyanvapi masjid and Shahi Eidgah of Mathura. The Board noticed that the Supreme Court docket whereas announcing its judgment on Babri masjid had clearly acknowledged that the ‘Locations of worship act, 1991’ has now closed all such doorways,” the assertion stated.
The board expects the Supreme Court docket will put an finish to all the brand new disputes and circumstances, it stated. The AIMPLB additionally noticed that the NDMC, whereas utilizing the site visitors problem as an excuse, tried to demolish the Sunehri Masjid in Delhi, though the courtroom intervened and put a keep on the matter.
Nevertheless, the Board expressed warning over Sunehri mosque and 6 different mosques within the Lutyens’ Zone that are shortlisted and “more likely to be focused by the disturbing components”, in keeping with the assertion.
It was additionally resolved on the assembly that the Palestine disaster is a humanitarian downside as Israel has illegally occupied and displaced the residents of Palestine and made them stateless. “It has damaged all data of cruelty and atrocities and is persistently selling genocide and barbaric acts of violence on the harmless Palestinians,” the board stated in its assertion.
The AIMPLB pressured that India has all the time stood by the Palestinian folks, proper from Mahatma Gandhi to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and even after that. The AIMPLB appealed to the Muslim World to exhibit real concern for the folks of Palestine.
