4 June 2016 – New Delhi : The President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and well-known Islamic scholar Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari said that many in the Indian Muslim community were ignorant about their own personal laws and Jamaat will undertake a campaign to educate them on issues like marriage, alimony, inheritance, bequeaths and divorce including triple talaq.

 

Maulana Umari was briefing the media in the monthly press meet organized by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at its New Delhi headquarters. On the issue of triple talaq the Jamaat chief said that the Quranic method of divorce takes place over a period of time with a lot of conditions and attempts at reconciliation.

 

But if a Muslim husband pronounces three talaqs in one sitting and insists that he wants to divorce his wife immediately and irrevocably then the divorce is valid and this is endorsed by a majority of the Ulema and scholars of Shariah.

 

 

Earlier the JIH Secretary General – Muhammad Salim Engineer expressed deep apprehension at the large scale violence in Mathura by self-styled sena (army) as well as the open communalism practiced by so called self-defense training camps organized by the Bajrang Dal.

 

Jamaat feels that this is communalism unplugged and if allowed to continue without any intervention may cause a huge communal conflagration with disastrous consequences for the nation.

 

Jamaat demands that the Central government must intervene and stop such communal camps inciting people to attack the minority community, arrest its leaders and come out publicly against this openly practiced ‘’fascism’’.

 

The country will pay a very heavy price if the Central government continues its policy of turning a blind eye to rising communalism and minority baiting by the fringe and radical Hindutva outfits.

 

 

Salim Engineer also commented on the completion of 2 years of the NDA government and said that the Central government has failed to deliver on its election promises and needs to work hard to live upto its slogan of ‘’Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas’’.

 

The Secretary General of JIH also expressed deep concern at the reports in media about India having the highest number of people in the world trapped in modern slavery. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind blames the government for maintaining a top-down economy where illegal labor is thriving because of high unemployment and abject poverty in the countryside. .

 

Jamaat expects the government of India to take cognizance of the report by Australian Human Rights organization – Walk Free and take all the necessary steps to bring an end to modern slavery in India.