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“साम्प्रदायिक सद्भाव एक मृग मरीचिका”

▶ क्या गांधी जी का देश बताने वाले साम्प्रदायिक सद्भावना की बात करके कभी उस सौहार्द को बना पाएं या गांधी जी भी कभी उस मृग मरीचिका को खोज पायें? अनेक महापुरुषों के कथनों से भी यही सत्य छलकता रहा कि हिन्दू- मुस्लिम एकता संभव नहीं अर्थात साम्प्रदायिक सद्भाव कहने व सुनने में अच्छा लगता है पर इसकी दूरी अनन्त है। पाकिस्तान के जनक मोहम्मद अली जिन्नाह ने भी कहा था कि हिन्दू मुस्लिम दो अलग अलग विचारधाराएं है और इनका एक साथ रहना संभव नहीं। जब मुसलमान जिहादी दर्शन का अनुसरण करेंगें और गैर मुस्लिमों पर अत्याचार या उनकी धार्मिक आस्थाओं पर निरंतर आघात करते रहेँगेँ तो कब तक कोई अपने अस्तित्व की रक्षा में उनके विरोध से बचता रहेगा ? अतः ये कैसे कहा जा सकता है कि हमारा देश सदियों से सांप्रदायिक सद्भाव की मिसाल रहा है ? इतिहास को झुठलाया नहीं जा सकता । भारत के कोने कोने में आप मुगलो की बर्बरता के निशान आज भी देख सकते है। क्या साम्प्रदायिक सद्भाव के लेखो व भाषणों से कोई इसको समझने के लिए तैयार होगा ? सन 1947 में देश के विभाजन का मूल कारण हिन्दू-मुस्लिम धर्म पर ही आधारित था।

▶आज समाज जागरुक हो गया है। अब असत्य व अन्याय सहकर प्रताड़ित होंते रहने का समय नहीं, हिंदुओं ने एक तरफा हुए अपने ही सगे-संबंधियों के भीषण कत्लेआमो को झेला है । उन्होंने अपनी भीरुता और कायरता से हज़ारों मंदिरो को विंध्वस होते देखा है और साथ ही अपनी व देश की अनन्त सम्पदा को लुटवाया है। अत्याचारों से चीखती -विलखती बहन बेटियों की चीत्कार को आज भी भुलाया नहीं जा सकता। कब तक इतिहास के काले पन्ने सार्वजनिक नहीं किये जायेंगें? एक वर्ग दूसरे वर्ग को लूटता रहें , उनकी बहन बेटियों को उठाता रहें, उसकी दुकान -मकान आदि सम्पति को जलाता रहें तो वो कब तक चुप रहकर क्यों कर सद्भाव की बड़ी बड़ी बातें कर पायेगा ? जबकि “द पॉलिटिक्स ऑफ कम्युनिलिज्म 1989″ की लेखिका एवं मुस्लिम स्कॉलर जैनब बानो के अनुसार यह स्पष्ट होता है कि 75% साम्प्रदायिक दंगों की शुरुआत मुसलमान ही करते है । दशकों पूर्व जब भिवंडी ( महाराष्ट्र) में हुए दंगो पर 14 मई 1970 को जनसंघ के नेता के रुप मे श्री अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी ने जो कहा उसके कुछ अंश… ” डेढ साल में हुए प्रमुख दंगो के कारणों की जांच एवं उसके विवरण भारत सरकार के द्वारा तैयार एक रिपोर्ट में उपलब्ध है। उस काल मे 23 दंगे हुए और मंत्रालय की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार उन 23 दंगों में से 22 दंगों का प्रारंभ उन लोगों ने किया जो अल्पसंख्यक समुदाय के माने जाते है।” (बही पृष्ठ-254)। ऐसे में साम्प्रदायिक सद्भाव एक मृग मरीचिका से अधिक और कुछ नही।

▶क्या यह भी सत्य नही है कि स्वतंत्र भारत की वर्तमान राजनीति अल्पसंख्यकों के नाम पर मंत्रालय व आयोग गठन करके वर्षो से नित्य नई नई योजनाओं द्वारा मुसलमानों पर अरबों रुपया लुटाती आ रही है? ऐसी विचित्र परिस्थितियों में अनेक प्रकार से अपने अधिकारों से वंचित होने वाले बहुसंख्यक हिन्दू समाज से यह आशा करें कि वह साम्प्रदायिक सौहार्द के लिए उदाहरण बन कर राष्ट्र की एकता और अखंडता बनायें रखें ? यह भेदभावपूर्ण नीतियां भारतीय राजनीति में एक जोंक की तरह चिपक गई है । इससे क्या हमारे लोकतांन्त्रिक मूल्य स्वस्थ व सुरक्षित रह पायेंगे ?

▶यहां पिछले वर्षों में हुई कुछ घटनाओं का उल्लेख करना भी अनुचित नही । ग्रेटर नोएडा के एक गांव बिसाहडा (दादरी) जिसमे 28 सितम्बर 2015 की रात को धार्मिक आघातों पर हुई घृणा से एक धर्म विशेष (मुसलमान) व्यक्ति की मृत्यु होने से मीडिया व राजनीति को एक धारदार हथियार हाथ लग गया था। समाज की ढोंगी धर्मनिरपेक्षता इस धार को अपने अपने अनुसार उचित अनुचित की फ़िक्र न करते हुए प्रयोग कर रही थी । विभिन्न साहियकारों ने इसके बहाने सरकार को घेरने व उसको बदनाम करने के लिए धीरे धीरे अपने पुरस्कार लौटाने आरंभ कर दिये थे। परंतु उसमें प्रमाण पत्र के साथ साथ मिलने वाली धनराशि भी सम्मलित थी या नही, अभी किसी ने स्पष्ट नहीं किया है। इस प्रकरण को सांप्रदायिकता के परिणाम से हुई हिंसा के लिए उस पर आक्रोश दिखाने का एक नाटक समझा जाये तो अनुचित नही होगा ? क्योंकि इस घटना के सहारे अनेक षड्यंत्रकारी तत्व भारत की छवि को देश-परदेश में धूमिल करके उत्तर प्रदेश की अखिलेश सरकार को कटघरे में खड़े करने के स्थान पर केंद्र में मोदी जी की सरकार पर आरोप-प्रत्यारोप लगाने लगे। इसमें सबसे अधिक सक्रियता उन स्वयं सेवी संस्थाओं ने दिखाई जो नियम विरुद्ध बाहरी देशों के धन पर फल-फूल रही थी और जिनको केंद्रीय सरकार जांच के घेरे में ला रही थी। इन संस्थाओं के कर्ताधर्ताओं ने देश और विदेश में भारत की धर्मनिरपेक्षता और साम्प्रदायिक सद्भावना पर भयंकर संकट का झूठा प्रचार किया। साथ ही अनेक मानवाधिकारवादियों को भी भ्रमित करने में सफल हुए। इन षड्यंत्रकारियों को कुछ माह बाद बिहार के चुनावों में बीजेपी की हार से बड़ा संतोष मिला था। इस प्रकार साम्प्रदायिकता के नाम पर राष्ट्रवाद को झुठलाना एक सामाजिक चुनौती बनती जा रही है।

▶यह भी नही भुलाया जा सकता कि कश्मीर, मालदा, कैराना व शामली के समान देश के विभिन्न क्षेत्रों में मुसलमान अपनी संख्या बढ़ा कर वहां रहने वाले हिन्दुओं पर अनेक दुर्व्यवहार व अत्याचार करते है। जिससे पीड़ित हिन्दू वहां से पलायन करने को विवश हो जाते है। इस प्रकार देश के हज़ारो क्षेत्रो में मुस्लिम बहुल बस्तियां विकसित होती जा रही है। जिनको कोई “मिनी पाकिस्तान” कह देता है कोई “मौहल्ला पाकिस्तान” बना देता है। जबकि विभिन्न हिन्दू बहुल बस्तियों में कम संख्या में रहने वाले मुसलमान भी कभी पीड़ित नही होते बल्कि सहिष्णु हिन्दुओं से प्रेम व सम्मान ही पाते है।

▶राष्ट्रवाद को झुठलाने की एक और घटना जब सितम्बर 2008 में बटला हाउस (दिल्ली) में आजमगढ़ के आतंकियों को मारा गया तो उसमे दिल्ली पुलिस के शूरवीर इंस्पेक्टर के बलिदान को ही संदेहात्मक बना दिया और (छदम्) धर्मनिरपेक्षता के नाम पर मुस्लिम आतंकियो के घर आजमगढ़ जाने की नेताओं में होड़ ही लग गयी थी। यहा तक समाचार आये थे कि उस समय सत्ता के शीर्ष को नियंत्रित करने वाली सोनिया गांधी ने भी आजमगढ़ के आतंकवादियों पर आंसू बहायें थे । सितंबर 2008 की इस घटना के बाद से आज तक आजमगढ़ के कट्टरपंथी मुसलमान और उलेमाओं की टोली जंतर-मंतर (नई दिल्ली) में प्रतिवर्ष सितंबर माह में विरोध प्रदर्शन करके आतंकियों को निर्दोष और हुतात्मा महेश चंद्र शर्मा के बलिदान को व्यर्थ प्रमाणित करना चाहती है। क्या यह कट्टरता साम्प्रदायिक सद्भाव बनने देगी ?

▶इससे अधिक भयावह व दर्दनाक घटनायें भी देश में होती रही है पर एक तरफ़ा देखने की प्रवृति का चलन बने रहने से स्वस्थ व निष्पक्ष विचार की सोच लुप्त होती रही है । साम्प्रदायिक सौहार्द की बात कहने वाले केवल कट्टरपंथियों के पक्ष में खड़ें रहकर ढोंगी धर्मनिरपेक्षता की आड़ में उदार हिन्दू समाज व राष्ट्रवाद को कोसने से बाज़ नही आते। अनेक देशद्रोही व मुस्लिम साम्प्रदायिकता के घृणित दुष्प्रभावों के समाचार आते रहते है पर देश के गणमान्य लोगो ने उस पर कभी प्रतिक्रिया नहीं करी । ऐसी अनेक चुभने वाली सूचनायें व समाचार दिलों से निकले नहीं है। हमारा मीडिया उत्तर प्रदेश के मुज़फ्फरनगर , बिजनौर, बरेली, लखनऊ, कानपुर, सहारनपुर,आगरा आदि में हुए पिछले पांच वर्षों के सांप्रदायिक दंगों की स्वस्थ पत्रकारिता से बचता आ रहा है।

इसी प्रकार पश्चिम बंगाल के बर्द्धमान , मालदा व धूलागढ़ आदि में पिछले वर्षों की मुस्लिम साम्प्रदायिकता के नंगे नाच की अनेक घटनाओं पर न जाने किस बोझ तले स्वस्थ पत्रकारिता का परिचय नही मिलता ?

जबकि मुस्लिम आतंकियों व धार्मिक भावनाओं पर आघात पहुँचाने के वशीभूत हुई किसी मस्लिम की मौत पर मीडिया जगत ऐसे व्यवहार करता है मानो कि हिंदू समाज ने मुस्लिम आतंकवादियों से भी बड़ा अपराध कर दिया हो .

▶यह सत्य है कि इस्लाम का जिहादी दर्शन आक्रान्ताओं को ही बढ़ावा देता है जबकि भारतीय दर्शन सद्भाव की बात करके वसुधैव कुटुंबकुम्ब की धारणा को बल देता है ।

परंतु आत्मस्वाभिमान मिटा कर आत्मघात सहकर अपने अस्तित्व को समाप्त करके जिहादियों के दारुल-इस्लाम के सपने को साकार करना या स्वीकार करने का सद्भाव ही भारतीयों को क्यों सिखाया जाता है ?

क्या अफगानिस्तान, पाकिस्तान , बंग्ला देश व कश्मीर में हिन्दुओ को सम्पूर्ण विनाश की ओर ले जा रहें जिहादियों के अंदर बैठे शैतान को कभी कोई नष्ट करने की सोचेगा ? आज पूरी दुनिया इसी जिहादी मानसिकता से जूझ रही है।

▶आज महात्मा कहे जाने वाले मोहनदास करमचंद “गांधी” अप्रसांगिक हो चुके है ,एक विभाजन झेल लिया है, अतः अब भारत माता को खंड खंड करने के षड्यंत्रों को रोकने के प्रयास करने होंगे .

मुजफ्फरनगर, बिसाहड़ा, मालदा व धूलागढ़ जैसे काण्ड पुनः न हो इसके लिए किसी की भी धार्मिक भावनाओं पर आघात नहीं हो ऐसा कौन सुनिश्चित करेगा ?

अतः जब तक जिहादी दर्शन व इस्लामिक शिक्षाओं में आवश्यक परिवर्तन नहीं होगा तब तक साम्प्रदायिक सद्भाव की बात करना व लिखना मृग मरीचिका ही बनी रहेगी .

 

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(राष्ट्रवादी चिंतक व लेखक)

गाज़ियाबाद

 

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From: Mohan Natarajan < >

Here’s why Muslims should give up claim on Ram temple land

By Sudhir Bisht

 

April 6, 2017

 

Give up claim on Ram Temple land

Give up claim on Ram Temple land

Give up the claims on Ram temple land.

 

As someone who was born in Delhi and lived in the Central government’s housing colonies in New Delhi area, I had no interaction at all with any member of Muslim community in my formative years.

 

The imagery of a Muslim man in my mind was that of Mohammad Rafi, the playback singer with a divine voice, Naushad Saab, the musician who was interviewed multiple times on TV by Tabassum in her famous Doordarshan program called ‘Phool Khiley Hain Gulshan Gulshan’, Nawab Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, the Captain of the Indian cricket team, and of course the crème de la crème among the Indian hockey players- Aslam Sher Khan, Zafar Iqbal and Mohammad Shahid. And then there was this fabulous star of Bollywood who was fading fast and yet he commanded respect from one and all, the thespian Dilip Kumar or Yusuf Khan.

I was asked by an elderly Muslim shopkeeper to close down my free coffee stall. He gently told me that the mood of the people was not upbeat and free coffee distribution would appear offensive to them as India has won the match.

 

Since there was no Muslim boy or girl who was my classmate in school or in college and even when I went to pursue my Master’s degree, I had not shaken hands with a Muslim till I was about 21 years of age.

 

My first interaction with Muslim community was in 1985 in Rampur in central Uttar Pradesh. I was a Trainee Sales Promoter at Foods Specialties Limited (Now Nestle India) and was promoting coffee drinking habit among Indians living in smaller towns.

 

I had set up a small stall outside a Kirana store and was demonstrating to people the easy way of preparing a cup of hot coffee with condensed milk called ‘Milkmaid’. There was this usual hubbub in the market, perhaps the market was called Shadab bazaar, and there were many men and some women who had gathered around my tiny kiosk to learn the art of making instant coffee.

 

By coincidence, an India-Pakistan One day international match too was taking place on the same day. I think it was being played somewhere in Middle-east and Pakistan had bundled out India at a very paltry score. Pakistan’s number one bowler Imran Khan had picked up six wickets and Pakistan was expected to win the match with much ease. There was a sense of excitement in the air. The shopkeepers, nearly all of them Muslims and those loitering around seemed happy to hear the commentary on All India radio.

However, something gloriously unexpected happened in the cricket field and Pakistan batsmen squandered their chance of an easy win and lost to India rather dramatically. And when Kapil Dev clean bowled the last batsman of the Pakistan team, a pall of gloom descended at the Rampur bazaar.

 

I was asked by an elderly Muslim shopkeeper to close down my free coffee stall. He gently told me that the mood of the people was not upbeat and free coffee distribution would appear offensive to them.

 

I still remember feeling terrorized even though no one tried to intimidate me in any manner but the feeling of despondency among the locals of Rampur was very much evident and that made me very scared. This was the question that kept rankling in my mind for Was I in my own country or in an enemy territory? many days after the incidence. I was disappointed with the Muslims of Rampur in the year 1985.

 

Muslim leaders in various parts of Hindustan have made light of the claim that Ram indeed was born at a place where we think he was born. Some of them have even questioned the existence of Ram.

 

I had all along thought that they were my countrymen who believed in Allah instead of believing in Ram like I do. This view was reinforced when I made friends with Khan, my colleague in the PSU oil company at Allahabad. What I also learnt was that his father was a science teacher in Bhagalpur and my friend had four more siblings. Since I and Khan shared a room, I learnt that he, a first-class Engineering graduate, had fixed notions about society and religious practices. He believed that children were God’s gift to mankind and family planning was a funny, phony notion. This coming from a young graduate engineer whose father was a teacher seemed very strange to me. I thought that Khan was a fine, educated young man but with a very conservative mindset.

 

A year later, I got married and I invited Khan and my other colleagues for a meal at my new place. He accepted the offer with enthusiasm. Khan, however, refused to eat the goat meat or chicken that was cooked by my wife. Upon my prodding, Khan said that unless he was convinced that the poultry and the meat were cut in ‘Halal’ way, he would not eat them. He said it in a matter-of-fact manner, without any fuss or inhibition. This reinforced the image of Muslims being very orthodox in my mind, in my subconscious mind at least.

 

And then in 1993, I was posted in Jammu and Kashmir and in my three-year stint in J&K, I was unable to visit Kashmir, a part of my own country due to the terrorism of fundamentalist Muslims who had overtaken the valley. It was clear to me that even if these terrorists were limited to a few hundred, they had the support of the majority of the Muslims residing in the valley. Nearly all the Hindus have driven away from the valley.

 

I left J&K in 1995 and by then I was convinced that wherever Hindus were in minority and Muslims were in majority, Hindus had to live in a state of fear. Even outside India, there was a significant population of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh but by and by the Hindus were reduced to a minuscule minority in Bangladesh and in Pakistan. On the other hand, the percentage of Muslims living in India hasn’t dwindled at all. And I thank God for that.

But what pains me that Hindus are actually living in a state of unease in many a district in West Bengal, Assam and in Kerala wherever Muslims are an overwhelming majority.

I look back in time and I find that a Hindu Prime Minister’s capitulation to the vote bank politics ensured that an old Muslim woman Shah Bano was denied a paltry alimony that she was entitled to receive from her husband, as the concept of alimony was not approved by the tenets of Islam. This after the Supreme Court of India had ruled that the old woman was well within her rights to claim and receive alimony from her ex-husband.

 

I travel back in recent time to find that our civil society torchbearers held rallies to save Afzal Guru, the enemy of the nation, from the hangman’s noose. They held demonstrations and freedom marches in favor of Umar Khalid, the man who raised slogans against our country.

I travel a few weeks back in time and find that Mayawati, a former CM of Uttar Pradesh was boasting that she would field at least one hundred Muslim candidates for the assembly elections, just to prove that she cared for their welfare. And that the poster boys of Congress and Samajwadi party were openly canvassing for the votes of Muslims.

 

As a Hindu and as an Indian, I belonging to the majority community felt that I was being ignored in the process. As if I, a part of the population that comprises 80% of India, didn’t exist.

I also find that the TV commentators keep deriding Yogi Aditya Nath, the newly elected Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He is referred to as a ‘Hindu monk’ and a ‘Hindu sanyasi’ by the likes of Tavleen Singh. His choice of clothes and the color of his attire are ridiculed.

 

In the past, I had never advocated that a Ram temple should be built at the site where the mosque was razed to the ground in 2002. I had even sympathized with my Muslim brothers and sisters who felt aggrieved after the disputed structure was felled by overzealous Hindus. But a lot has changed since 2002.

 

The 9/11 happened in the United States and 26/11 happened in Mumbai. The Muslim terrorists have caused havoc in many places in Europe and in Turkey and in Nigeria and even in their own countries like Pakistan and many more.

 

Now my heart has started telling my mind that a temple had stood at that very site in Ayodhya and it was razed to the ground and a mosque built upon the foundation of the temple. So, the Hindus have the right to build a grand temple at the site where a mosque stood till 2002.

My heart yearns for a Ram temple in Ayodhya. I have joined the chorus that “If a Ram temple will not come up in Ayodhya, will it then be built in Azerbaijan?”

 

I am gripped with Islam-o-phobia and I appeal to my Muslim countrymen to help me get rid of it. I ask them to let me have (We the Hindus do not need permission from any anti-Vedic to build Rama temple, or do anything else in our own homeland Hindustan. – Skanda987) my Ram temple. This will assuage my broken heart somewhat.

 

The wounds of Kashmir will not heal until Hindus go back to their homes in the valley but the effect of assault that my mind suffered when the Lordships sat up at midnight to see if Yakub Menon could be saved, would abate.

 

Muslim leaders in various parts of Hindustan have made light of the claim that Ram indeed was born at a place where we think he was born. Some of them have even questioned the existence of Ram. However, in retaliation, no Hindu has ever questioned if Allah ever existed. This is because we have a deep sense of respect for Allah. (No, the characteristics and qualities and desires of Allah as provided in Koran, Hadith and Sura are not like as given in the Vedic scriptures of Supreme God. We just respect the freedom of thought—that we don’t mind if Muslims think that way about Allah or haven; but as long as they do not impose their will upon us. While Islam does not give freedom to address god with any other name than Allah, we have many names of god. – Skanda987) He is ours as well. In fact, he is as much ours as He is of Muslims.

 

It is the time that a majority of Muslims come out of the stranglehold of their clerics and start a Give It Up hashtag on twitter for giving up the land in Ayodhya.

 

Let this be the end of a controversy and the beginning of a new era.

Author and columnist Saba Naqvi agrees with me. That’s a good beginning.

 

Note:

 

1. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of P Gurus.

 

About Sudhir Bisht:

Sudhir Bisht, is an Independent columnist, and is an author and a prolific independent columnist. His articles are often among the ‘most emailed’ and ‘most commented upon’ articles.

From: Mohan Natarajan < >

 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39480846

 The (Muslim) women who sleep with a stranger to save their marriage

Athar Ahmad

05 April 2017

 

[A number of online services are charging “divorced” Muslim women thousands of pounds to take part in “halala” Islamic marriages, a BBC investigation has found. Women pay to marry, have sex with and then divorce a stranger, so they can get back with their first husbands.]

 

Farah – not her real name – met her husband after being introduced to him by a family friend when she was in her 20s. They had children together soon afterwards but then, Farah says, the abuse began.

 

“The first time he was abusive was over money,” she tells the BBC’s Asian Network and Victoria Derbyshire program.

 

“He dragged me by my hair through two rooms and tried to throw me out of the house. There would be times where he would just go crazy.”

 

Despite the abuse, Farah hoped things would change. Her husband’s behavior though became increasingly erratic – leading to him “divorcing” her via text message.

 

“I was at home with the children and he was at work. During a heated discussion he sent me a text saying, ‘talaaq, talaaq, talaaq’.”

 

“Triple talaaq” – where a man says “talaaq”, or divorce, to his wife three times in a row – is a practice which some Muslims believe ends an Islamic marriage instantly.

 

It is banned in most Muslim countries but still happens, though it is impossible to know exactly how many women are “divorced” like this in the UK.

 

“I had my phone on me,” Farah explains, “and I just passed it over to my dad. He was like, ‘Your marriage is over, you can’t go back to him.'”

 

Farah says she was “absolutely distraught”, but willing to return to her ex-husband because he was “the love of my life”.

 

She says her ex-husband also regretted divorcing her.

 

This led Farah to seek the controversial practice known as halala, which is accepted by a small minority of Muslims who subscribe to the concept of a triple talaaq.

 

They believe halala is the only way a couple who have been divorced, and wish to reconcile, can remarry.

Halala involves the woman marrying someone else, consummating the marriage and then getting a divorce – after which she is able to remarry her first husband.

 

But in some cases, women who seek halala services are at risk of being financially exploited, blackmailed and even sexually abused.

 

It’s a practice the vast majority of Muslims are strongly against and is attributed to individuals misunderstanding the Islamic laws around divorce.

 

But an investigation by the BBC has found a number of online accounts offering halala services, several of which are charging women thousands of pounds to take part in temporary marriages.

 

‘Desperation’

 

One man, advertising halala services on Facebook, told an undercover BBC reporter posing as a divorced Muslim woman that she would need to pay £2,500 and have sex with him in order for the marriage to be “complete” – at which point he would divorce her.

 

The man also said he had several other men working with him, one who he claims initially refused to issue a woman a divorce after a halala service was complete.

 

There is nothing to suggest the man is doing anything illegal.

 

The BBC contacted him after the meeting – he rejects any allegations against him, claiming he has never carried out or been involved in a halala marriage and that the Facebook account he created was for fun, as part of a social experiment.

 

In her desperation to be reunited with her husband, Farah began trying to find men who were willing to carry out a halala marriage.

 

“I knew of girls who had gone behind families’ backs and had it done and been used for months,” she says.

 

“They went to the mosque, there was apparently a designated room where they did this stuff and the imam or whoever offers these services, slept with her and then allowed other men to sleep with her too.”

 

But the Islamic Sharia Council in East London, which regularly advises women on issues around divorce, strongly condemns halala marriages.

 

“This is a sham marriage, it is about making money and abusing vulnerable people,” says Khola Hasan from the organization.

 

“It’s haram, it’s forbidden. There’s no stronger word I can use. There are other options, like getting help or counselling. We would not allow anyone to go through with that. You do not need halala, no matter what,” she adds.

Farah ultimately decided against getting back with her husband – and the risks of going through a halala marriage.

 

But she warns there are other women out there, like her, who are desperate for a solution.

“Unless you’re in that situation where you’re divorced and feeling the pain I felt, no-one’s going to understand the desperation some women feel.

 

“If you ask me now, in a sane state, I would never do it. I’m not going to sleep with someone to get back with a man. But at that precise time, I was desperate to get back with my ex-partner at any means or measure.”

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QUOTE FROM THE BOOK “The World of Fatwas: Or the Shariah in Action” – Arun Shourie – Rupa & Co (1995)

 

QUOTE:

The situation is scarcely better if the husband, having thrown her out, repents, and wants the woman to continue as his wife. The ULEMA insist that she cannot be his wife again unless, after the IDDAT is over, she marries another man, unless that second marriage is actually consummated, unless that second man divorces her, and her IDDAT is once again over. This is HALALAH. (pp-361)

UNQUOTE.

 

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