I came across one article in today’s news paper and it broke me into pieces. The thought stroke into my mind that even in modern world where Women have touched the sky, some people are available who want Women to sit at home. They can’t see the Women as so progressive and show their frustration on time to time by issuing this kind of FATWA.
Already there are many untold fatwa’s available for women in the society ,these fatwa’s are adding insult to injury.
Please read the article completely and give your valuable comment/vote against this incident. Please let them know that women are still alive. And they can’t impose this type of Un human rules on us. Its time to ask these people that Why their is no such fatwa for men?
The article was like this:
LUCKNOW: Darul Uloom Deoband has come up with a travel advisory for women. Latest fatwa issued by the Islamic seminary rules that a single female must not venture beyond 48 miles unless duly escorted by a `mehram'. Mehram is defined as a close kin with whom marriage or sex would be considered incestuous and includes father, grandfather, uncle, son or grandson. Apart from this category, a husband also qualifies as meharm.
The edict came in response to a query to Darul-Ifta (Deoband's fatwa department) "whether a married woman was permitted to travel to another country with her female sibling". The response ( 511/308/d) posted on the Deoband website on March 2 categorically maintained that "she cannot travel without a `mehram'. It is mentioned in the `Hadees' that a woman should not travel for more than 48 miles except in the company of a mehram relative".
Justifying the fatwa to media on Tuesday, Deoband's spokesperson Adil Siddiqui said the intent of the edict was to protect women's honour. The fatwa is relevant and timely considering growing incidents of crime against women and therefore no Muslim family should have any objections against it," he said.
"Don't modern educated women need protection," Siddiqi asked. They must not travel alone even with relatives apart from father husband or the meharam. This is to ensure their own safety during the journey, he said .
However, the ruling, made public on the eve on International Women's day, has raised the heckles of activists here who have strongly condemned the attempts to "shackle womenfolk by insecure maulanas". The issue was discussed threadbare at the meeting of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan ( BMMA) and each of the 253 participants vowed to ignore it completely.
The bid to impose 1,400 years old restrictions, when people travelled in kafila, is simply ridiculous, says Naeesh Hasan, the founder president of AMMA "specially in an era when a woman pilot can take a planeload of men across 14,000 miles without her father or husband lurking in the cockpit".
Beghaum Shahnaz Sidrat, president of Bazm-e-Khawateen, 76 years old well-known progressive outfit of women, wanted to know what happened to women who had no meharam. "I was a lone daughter of widowed mother and have been moving alone since the time I remember. The maulanas must think of better ways to make their presence felt," she said.
This is yet another attempt to subjugate women, said president of All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board, Shaista Ambar. A woman cannot be expected to be tied to her husband or father forever. What do maulvis have to say about long distance relationship, she asked and said such rulings only bring disrepute to clerics.
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Already there are many untold fatwa’s available for women in the society ,these fatwa’s are adding insult to injury.
Please read the article completely and give your valuable comment/vote against this incident. Please let them know that women are still alive. And they can’t impose this type of Un human rules on us. Its time to ask these people that Why their is no such fatwa for men?
The article was like this:
LUCKNOW: Darul Uloom Deoband has come up with a travel advisory for women. Latest fatwa issued by the Islamic seminary rules that a single female must not venture beyond 48 miles unless duly escorted by a `mehram'. Mehram is defined as a close kin with whom marriage or sex would be considered incestuous and includes father, grandfather, uncle, son or grandson. Apart from this category, a husband also qualifies as meharm.
The edict came in response to a query to Darul-Ifta (Deoband's fatwa department) "whether a married woman was permitted to travel to another country with her female sibling". The response ( 511/308/d) posted on the Deoband website on March 2 categorically maintained that "she cannot travel without a `mehram'. It is mentioned in the `Hadees' that a woman should not travel for more than 48 miles except in the company of a mehram relative".
Justifying the fatwa to media on Tuesday, Deoband's spokesperson Adil Siddiqui said the intent of the edict was to protect women's honour. The fatwa is relevant and timely considering growing incidents of crime against women and therefore no Muslim family should have any objections against it," he said.
"Don't modern educated women need protection," Siddiqi asked. They must not travel alone even with relatives apart from father husband or the meharam. This is to ensure their own safety during the journey, he said .
However, the ruling, made public on the eve on International Women's day, has raised the heckles of activists here who have strongly condemned the attempts to "shackle womenfolk by insecure maulanas". The issue was discussed threadbare at the meeting of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan ( BMMA) and each of the 253 participants vowed to ignore it completely.
The bid to impose 1,400 years old restrictions, when people travelled in kafila, is simply ridiculous, says Naeesh Hasan, the founder president of AMMA "specially in an era when a woman pilot can take a planeload of men across 14,000 miles without her father or husband lurking in the cockpit".
Beghaum Shahnaz Sidrat, president of Bazm-e-Khawateen, 76 years old well-known progressive outfit of women, wanted to know what happened to women who had no meharam. "I was a lone daughter of widowed mother and have been moving alone since the time I remember. The maulanas must think of better ways to make their presence felt," she said.
This is yet another attempt to subjugate women, said president of All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board, Shaista Ambar. A woman cannot be expected to be tied to her husband or father forever. What do maulvis have to say about long distance relationship, she asked and said such rulings only bring disrepute to clerics.
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