Epigraph: “And when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about, ‘For what crime was she killed?’” (Al Quran 81:9-10)
Source: By Mohammed Wajihuddin, TNN, Times of India
MUMBAI: After studying repercussions of one-sided pronouncement of talaq by Muslim men for months, several Muslim women groups have demanded a ban on oral and unilateral talaq.
At a public hearing titled ‘Jiski Kahani Uski Zubani’, held as part of the national convention of Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) at Marathi Patrakar Sangh on Monday, over a dozen women victims of one-sided talaq narrated their stories. Many broke down while sharing their experiences.
“My husband was a drunkard. Whenever I asked him to stop drinking, he would beat me up. When I continued to protested his drinking habits, he divorced me. I have a son and I don’t know how I will bring him up,” said Saba from Madhya Pradesh.
Nikhat from UP, who was married in 2010 and has three children, said her husband has deserted her and she has not seen her kids in months. “My husband told his relatives that he divorced me, but he has not told me,” she said.
“In most cases, qazis and muftis are on the side of the men. The women are not given alimony after divorce and the compensation, if given at all, is inadequate,” said BMMA’s founder-member Noorjahan Safia Niaz, who also protested the practice of halala, according to which: If a divorced woman wants to marry the same man again, she has to marry another man and it is up to him if he wants to divorce her.
Having received over 500 signatures against oral and unilateral talaq from across the country, women activists have demanded codification of the Muslim Family Law which will make registration of marriages mandatory…
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Categories: Islam
Wow this is so sad. This is what happens when you forget to accept the Imam of the age. Your lives get run by the ignorant Mulvies.
It’s truly sad when I hear such accounts or see it being played on television.
May Allah (swt) guide everyone to the right path.
Unfortunately Talaq uttered three times in one go to a wife is a problem even in Pakistan.
Well, even without such laws (as verbal talaq) divorce is a major problem all over the world. It seems the young generation has no more patience.