Lucknow, March 16, 2022 (PPI-OT): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has expressed ‘regret and disappointment’ on the ruling by the High Court of the in the Indian state of Karnataka upholding the ban on wearing of head scarp/ hijab by Muslim students in educational institutions.
The AIMPLB general secretary, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, told reporters that the board will be holding an online meeting soon to discuss the way forward on the issue apart from tabling the matter in an offline meeting to be held at the end of this month. AIMPLB has previously expressed intent to move SC in the matter.
Rahmani called Tuesday’s HC order a ‘discriminatory one towards Muslims’. He rejected the claim that head scarp/ hijab is not essential to Islam and said banning it is intrusion in constitutional rights of Muslim citizens.
“Islam and Shariat have made certain things farz (duty) and wajib (obligatory) on Muslims and it is lazim (pre-requisite) that they be followed. Hijab is one such obligation which is a pre-requisite. If certain Muslims in their ignorance and laziness do not perform namaz or roza, they cannot be eliminated from Islam but they do commit a sin. Similarly, if certain Muslims don’t follow the hijab, it does not make the act non-essential to Islam,” he explained.
He further said, it is the constitutional right of every individual to wear what he/she deems fit and the order is discriminatory towards Muslims. “Schools have the right to decide upon a uniform but it has come to our notice that the case that went in court was not related to schools but was for colleges, where the coercion of uniforms cannot be made,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has also said that it disagreed with the decision of the Karnataka High Court regarding the head scarp/ hijab ban in educational institutions. It urged Muslim societies and NGOs to approach the Supreme Court to challenge the verdict.
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