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SHARIA, FATWAS AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Ali Engineer, Asghar
Ali Engineer, Asghar
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"It is because of these fatwas that Islam is negatively projected in media and them we complain against media for its Islam bashing. A truly religious person should look at his/her own fault first before blaming others. As someone said we try to remove dust from mirror instead of from our own face. The mirror is going to show dust on our face in any case as long as it is on our face. Today it is highly necessary to dust off our own face and restore dignity of Islamic shari’ah by re-thinking several issues pertaining to personal laws restoring dignity and rights of women as given by Qur’an and taken away due to personal opinions of jurists in their own circumstances. Imitation should be thrown out of window and all eminent jurists from entire Islamic world should come together and compile corpus of laws giving equal rights to women in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, etc. There is no doubt if we keep maqasid al-shari’ah (objectives) and masalih al-shari’ah (welfare of people) and resort to independent thinking and freedom of thought the Islamic laws would become not only highly just but a model to be followed by all. Ibn Hazm, for example, was of the opinion that if man is economically weak and woman who wishes to be divorced well off, it is for divorced wife to maintain her former husband, something which modern law stipulates. We must go directly to Qur’an and accept only very authentic hadith and Muslim women will be more equal than in other laws."(pg 3)
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