All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has released a statement regarding the issue of dowry in Indian marriages. This has come in the background of a heart wrenching widely circulated pre-suicide video by Aisha Arif Khan, a young girl from Ahmedabad city of Gujarat. In the video, Ayesha is …
Read More »Move to end polygamy divides Indian Muslims
A new confrontation between religious and social organizations has broken out in India as its top court seeks the government’s response to a move to ban polygamy among Muslims. The Supreme Court of India on March 26 decided to examine the validity of polygamy and several other Muslim marital practices while hearing …
Read More »70,000 Muslim women protest against Triple Talaq Bill in Malegaon
A large throng of approximately 70,000 women, mostly clad in hijab, stepped out of their houses in Malegaon to join a silent march protesting against the Centre’s Triple Talaq Bill. Holding placards, they stated they did not want any interference in Sharia (Islamic law) by the government. This is the …
Read More »Muslim Law Board to ask grooms for oath against instant talaq
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), which failed to convince the Supreme Court against banning instant triple talaq last year, is all set to make it binding on Muslim men to commit in the nikahnama (Islamic marriage contract) that they will not use the practice. Over a month after the Lok Sabha passed the …
Read More »Nikahnama to be modified to deter Muslims from giving triple talaq: AIMPLB
To deter the practice of triple talaq, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is all set to introduce a new provision in its model nikahnama in which the man has to commit that he will not give triple talaq (instant divorce), a spokesman of the board said. The development comes …
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