الهند: اللجوء للمحكمة العليا للاعتراض على تحديد سن الزواج

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أعلن مجموعة من العلماء المسلمين وممثلي الهيئات الدينية في "الهند" عن عزمهم اللجوء للمحكمة العليا للحصول على حكم باستثناء المسلمات من تحديد سن الزواج قانونًا وقصره على 18 عامًا؛ لكون ذلك يخالف أحكام الشريعة الإسلامية.

وأشار بعض العلماء إلى أن القانون يخالف حق المرأة في الإعراب عن قدرتها على الزواج شرعًا، وأن الشريعة لا تحدد سنًّا معينة للزواج، وأن القانون يعتبر قيدًا على الحرية الدينية، وانتهاكًا لحق ممارسته، وهو ما يلزم الحكومة المركزية مراجعة النظر فيه من هذه الحيثية، التي تهم المسلمين الذين يشكلون نحو 160 مليون نسمة من مجموع سكان "الهند" الذي يبلغ مليار و100 مليون نسمة؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Marriage Age Divides India Muslims

A galaxy of Muslim scholars and religious bodies have announced their plans to approach the supreme court to seek an exemption from marriage age restrictions for Muslims, the move criticized by various Muslim groups as legitimizing child marriage and restricting girls’ education.

"Making 18 years the marriageable age is against the Muslim Personal Law,” Sunni Yuvajan Sangh state chief Nasir Faisy Koodathai, told the Indian Express on Sunday, September 22.

“The state's decision was against Shari`ah, which allows a girl to decide on her marriage."

Led by Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), prominent Muslim organizations in Karela announced on Saturday their plans to ask the Supreme Court to exempt Muslims women from the minimum age for marriage law.

According to the Muslim Personal Law Protection Committee in Kozhikode, fixing legal age for marriage in an 'encroachment' of the Shari`ah law, which doesn't set a marriage age for women.

“Shari`ah Law does not recommend marriage age for Muslims,” Mustafa Mundoopara, Samastha Employees Association general secretary, said.

“Laws being enacted in the country setting age restrictions for marriages are against the religious fundamental rights of the Muslim community. The Central as well as the state governments should take urgent steps to solve the issue,” he added.

Mayin Haji, secretary of IUML, shared a similar opinion.

"Fixing marriage age for Muslims is an encroachment into the religious rights of the community and hence the state and central government need to take suitable steps in this regard," Haji told the Economic Times.

Along with IUML, the committee included representatives from Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen, Naduvathul Mujahideen Kerala, Jamaat-e-Islami, Dakshina Kerala Jemiyyathul Ulama, Kerala State Jemiyyathul Ulama, Muslim Educational Society and Muslim Service Society.

Islam highly appreciates marriage and gives it due care stating detailed rules and ruling in every single and small matter.

Islam doesn’t impose a specific age for eligibility for marriage and leaves it for the legal authorities to decide the proper age for marriage in order to maintain interests of both husbands and wives.

This, of course, changes from one country or community to anther depending on many considerable factors.

In Islam also it is not permissible for the guardian to compel the one under his guardianship to marry someone she does not desire to marry.

Rather, it is necessary to seek her consent and permission.