الهند: جهود إسلامية لوقف عادة دفع المرأة المهر للرجل

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعلن مجموعة من علماء "الهند" عن مساعيهم لتصحيح التعاليم الإسلامية المتعلقة بالمهر؛ وذلك بالامتناع عن عقد الزيجات التي تدفع فيها المرأة الصداق للرجال خلافًا لما هو معروف إسلاميًّا، وهو أمر منتشر في "الهند".

وقد أكد الشيخ "قازي مولانا منصور علام" - رئيس "جمعية إمارة الشريعة" - أن هذه الخطوة في إطار توعية المجتمع ومقاطعة الرجال الذي يستحلون ذلك؛ حيث يؤدي ذلك لوضع الأسر في حرَجٍ، ودفْعهم للاقتراض، ومنع الفتيات من مواصلة الدراسة؛ وذلك لجمع الصداق اللازم للزواج، وبلغ الأمر ببعض أولياء الأمور إلى بيع كليتهم لتوفير الصداق لتزويج بناتهم.

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Indian Scholars Launch War on Dowry

A group of Muslim scholars in India's northern state of Bihar have decided not to conduct marriage contracts for those who give or take dowary, pointing at the disturbing social ills related to it.

“We have decided not to conduct nikah (marriage) for those who take and give dowry in the district,” Qazi Maulana Mansur Alam, the head of Muslim organisation Imarat-e Sharia of Biharsharief in Nalanda , told Times of India on Sunday, January 5.

“It is a historic move to discourage dowry and create awareness. It is a kind of social boycott to warn dowry takers.”

Announced on Saturday, Muslim scholars from Bihar's Nalanda district have declared that they will not conduct marriage ceremonies for Muslims who 'give' or 'take' dowry.

The move won the support of the Muslim community who asserted that in Islam, it is the man who pays dowry to the woman. The case was reversed in India.

“It is only in Islam that at the time of the marriage, the groom hands over to the bride a sum of money called 'Mahr',” said Haji Mohd Shafiullah Khan, a retired railway official and now a social worker in Gewal Bigha in Gaya district.

“Which is a token of his willingness to accept the responsibility of bearing all expenses of his wife,” Khan said.

According to Shar`iah, dowry is an obligation upon the groom that he has to pay to the woman, and this dowry is a full right of the woman which totally belongs to her and not to anybody else.

In Indian society, however, the family of the bride pays the dowry.

As a result of high dowries tradition, several young girls were obliged to discontinue education because the parents have the responsibility of getting them married off.

Several parents were also forced to take loans from banks to pay dowry to the groom.

The campaign by Bihar scholar is not the first against dowry.

Several activists have warned that the sale of brides has become prevalent in India’s rural areas in the past decade.

Parents in some rural areas were also selling their kidneys to pay for dowry.