A Maulana has issued a FATWA (yes, another fatwa, no end to the fatwa news) asking all Muslims in a village to again solemnise the 'nikaah' with their respective wives as their marriages had turned 'haraam'.
This 'enlightened' man, Mufti Abdul Mannan, issued the fatwa when villagers near Moradabad offered namaaz-e-janaazah of a villager before an Imam who had come from another place and it was later found that the Imam was Deobandi (subscribed to Deoband school of thought).
Now villagers were Barelvis (theological school of Reza Khan Barelvi). The difference of 'maslak' dawned upon some villagers later. The person was buried peacefully but the peace of village shattered there after as the fatwa reached them. All Muslim men who had offered Namaz before the Deobandi Imam should re-marry their wives.
Men from the age of 20 to 80; Age doesn't matter. The fatwa is stern. And when asked Mufti Sahab told journalists, "You won't understand, it's an age-old issue between us and Deobandis, I have just re-issued the fatwa", said His Holiness ;)
Poor villagers were rushing to 'aalims' and some were even convinced that they should get a second 'nikaah' with the spouse. But the Mufti has at least proved that Indian Muslims are in no way a block or monolithic as many believe.
In many parts of the country the Deobandi Vs Barelvi rift has widened so much that if one person visits other's mosque they clean it (yes it happens in Eastern UP) and these sects live in separate clusters in some small towns of North India where they don't have the Roti-Beti relationship like other biraadiris who are at conflict.
And the rift is getting widened as I find in conversations 'Bhaaiyyon ham log bhi ek doosre ke jaan ke dushman haiN aur hamare andar har woh zaat-paat, unch-nich maujood hai jo hamare hindu bhaiyyon me hai".
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Fatwa Frenzy: Entire Muslim village asked to marry again
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Reminds me of the Mewati Muslims who follow the gotra system within themselves.
Indeed, unlike what the Hindutva-wadis would like us to believe, Indian Muslims are as much Indian as Muslims- the differences between them are deep and it is as much "monolithic" as the Hindus, or any other religious Indian community for that matter.
Long ago, M Mujeeb had addressed this question in his book Indian Muslims.
Could you explain the roti-beti relationship? (I'm guessing it means eating another person's roti and bringing his beti into your family in marriage).
jee haan....kuchh aisa hi hai...huqqa-paani band suna hi hoga aapne...yeh kuchh kuchh vaisa hi hota hai...biradari baahar...zaat baahar...qata' ta'alluq jaisa...
and Bhupinder Sahab, I haven't read M Mujeeb's book, would look for it now.
Saudi clerics want to restrict women praying at Mecca
So I had to see when these male Mullhas took out a fatwa against it. BTW, if there is a space restriction why not they restrict Men and let Women pray around Kabba.
Its really pathetic. Damn these mullahs especially barelvies..they are so stubbron and orthodox in their approach that they have brought shame to Islam.
This dehati islam is really the pits .
May Allah grant them Hidiyat
That's no news to me, that happened once in my moms village more than a decade back, when some people visited a Shia's funeral.
The Mullah's either barelvi or Tabligi have lost all their senses or are their just to make people fight so that they remain relevant. Poor people have so much faith in them that they follow whatever they say.
this is absolutely hilarious and absolutely shocking at the same time...i literally laughed out loud at the 'solution'! can you please put a news link or something here? thanks..
HYDERABADS SIASAT URDU DAILY EDITOR IN SEX RACKET
A Hyderabad based urdu newspaper siasat editor mr amir ali khan and mr mazhar and mr alamdar were involved in a sex racket today as exposed by MIM floor leader in the state assembly in which a young girl was sold to alleged sex racket after being brought in a trap by offering her a scholarship and then taking her to a farmhouse and raping her which are seirous offenses and even forcing her parents not to file a police complaint and threating them with dire consequences.Congress grilled on failure to check cases of kidnap The Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen on Tuesday took the Congress government to task for its alleged failure to control kidnappings and trafficking of young girls in the State, particularly Hyderabad.
Armed with statistics MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi said Hyderabad city alone records seven cases of missing youths, including five girls, every day. As many as five children are kidnapped every day on an average. The MIM leader said 1,118 cases of kidnap and missing of children were registered in Hyderabad during 2004 and of this 353 cases were registered within Cyberabad police limits. In 2005, 511 cases of kidnap and missing of children were recorded.
With regard to missing of youths, particularly girls, Mr Owaisi said 3476 such cases were registered during 2005. Of these only 1714 cases were traced. About 80 per cent of all missing persons are young girls who are kidnapped by professional human trafficking gangs. “There is a heavy demand for Andhra girls in other States. The kidnapped girls are sold in brothels outside the State. The CID has reported the existence of as many as 32 such gangs in the State. Andhra Pradesh has now become number one State in the country in terms of missing children,” the MIM leader pointed out.
Answering supplementary during the Question Hour, Home minister K. Jana Reddy said the AP High Court had observed the man missing cases are not cognisable offences and police need not register them. A note in the general register will suffice. However, as a social obligation police are tracing the missing persons.
The Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen on Tuesday took the Congress government to task for its alleged failure to control kidnappings and trafficking of young girls in the State, particularly Hyderabad.
Armed with statistics MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi said Hyderabad city alone records seven cases of missing youths, including five girls, every day. As many as five children are kidnapped every day on an average. The MIM leader said 1,118 cases of kidnap and missing of children were registered in Hyderabad during 2004 and of this 353 cases were registered within Cyberabad police limits. In 2005, 511 cases of kidnap and missing of children were recorded.
With regard to missing of youths, particularly girls, Mr Owaisi said 3476 such cases were registered during 2005. Of these only 1714 cases were traced. About 80 per cent of all missing persons are young girls who are kidnapped by professional human trafficking gangs. “There is a heavy demand for Andhra girls in other States. The kidnapped girls are sold in brothels outside the State. The CID has reported the existence of as many as 32 such gangs in the State. Andhra Pradesh has now become number one State in the country in terms of missing children,” the MIM leader pointed out.
Answering supplementary during the Question Hour, Home minister K. Jana Reddy said the AP High Court had observed the man missing cases are not cognisable offences and police need not register them. A note in the general register will suffice. However, as a social obligation police are tracing the missing persons.
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