Speakers at a seminar organised by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Thursday unanimously conveyed their feeling that there was no need for a separate law for Muslim women as was being proposed by the government in recent times.
The day-long event drew the participation of several persons of eminence and students from across the country. Maulana Khalid Nadvi of the Nadwadul-Ulema and Khalid Saifullah Rehmani, both members of the Board spoke extensively, explaining how the existing personal law was enough to handle most situations that arose in the community.
The Nadwadul-Ulema, Lucknow was till a few years ago, the first and only Arabic university, before two more, including the Al Mahad Al Diniya Al Arabiya and another such educational institution where the medium of instruction is Arabic, were established here in Hyderabad.
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Over a dozen speakers expressed their resentment against Government Orders in some States seeking the imposition of ‘Surya Namaskar and Vandemataram’ on school children and said it had hurt the community as a whole.
Further, they regretted that the current syllabus in schools was coloured in ‘saffron’.
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The faith of Muslims they said, was badly affected by the concepts that were imposed on them, like ‘yoga, Surya Namaskar and Saraswati Vandanam’.
Prohibited in Islam
According to the teachings of Islam, they said the sun, moon and the universe were made subservient to man by God. The aim of their creation was to benefit man and in turn, man was instructed to bow before God and express his gratefulness.
Treating the sun as god and conveying man’s wishes and bowing before it was prohibited in Islam, they said.