Bareilly: Bareilly’s Dargah Ala Hazrat has issued a fatwa, in which Muslim youths have been prevented from hiding their identity, indulging in love affairs and marrying non-Muslim girls. In addition, a fatwa has been issued instructing men against getting hair transplants and forbidding women from shaping their eyebrows or setting their hair as it states that such practices is viewed as “intrusion into the natural body” and goes against the Shari’a.
In a fatwa issued by Darul Ifta, an organization run from Dargah Ala Hazrat, one of the most revered religious places of the Barelvi sect of Sunni Muslims, it has been termed ‘haram’ for Muslim youths to hide their identity and love girls. of other religions.
The order was issued in response to a question asked by Dr Mohammad Nadeem of Barabanki on the allegation of increasing cases of “love jihad”. All India Muslim Jamaat President Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi said that this fatwa has been issued. The matter is of Bareilly. “Young Muslim boys are indulging in ‘un-Islamic’ acts and falling in love and marrying non-Muslim girls,” he told a press conference here on Sunday.
He further said, ‘These un-Islamic acts include wearing kada and kalava in hand, applying tilak on head and talking to non-Muslim girls on social media by hiding their identity. A fatwa has been given regarding this. has been issued from Bareilly, and such activities have been called illegitimate and ‘haram’ in it. “In addition, a fatwa issued on March 3 prohibits women from shaping their eyebrows and setting their hair.
Furthermore, men are prohibited from getting hair transplants as such practice is against Sharia “as it is an invasion of the natural body”. Similarly, if a husband gives ‘talaq’ to his wife through ‘SMS’, then Sends the message multiple times, and then accepts to send the message, the divorce will be considered valid as per Sharia,” the cleric said.
In Uttar Pradesh, the Adityanath-led government’s new law against forced conversions or ‘love jihad’ came into force in November 2020. In November last year, a Lucknow court sent a Muslim man to judicial custody who was accused of pushing a 19-year-old. A one-year-old Hindu girl on the fourth floor of a building in Lucknow, allegedly after refusing to convert to Islam. The man, identified as Sufiyan, was arrested after a police encounter in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.
Based on the complaint of the girl’s family, it has been alleged in the FIR that accused Sufiyan used to pressure Nidhi to convert before marriage. Lucknow Police has registered a case against the accused Sufiyan under Section 302 and Section 3 and 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Conversion Act.
According to the law, conversion from one religion to another by “misrepresentation, force, fraud, undue influence, coercion, inducement or marriage” is prohibited and any marriage with the sole intention of changing the religion of the girl child shall be declared null and void . ,