By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net
Out of 250 member of the All Indian Muslim Personal Law Board, 25 are women. Uzma Nahid is one among those twenty-five who represents women in this important Muslim organization.
She has utilized her position with the board to push for issues that matters to Muslim women. It is largely through her effort that few years ago AIMPLB finally approved a model nikahnama that is considered more equitable.
In an exclusive interview with TwoCircles.net she urged AIMPLB to take on bigger roles. She expressed the need that the time has come when AIMPLB should not limit itself only to the maters of personal laws. The Ummah, as she pointed out is increasingly becoming disenchanted from the Islamic leadership of the country because it sees that they don’t have any thing to do with the problems which they suffer on daily basis like unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, justice to the riot victims.
She said that AIMPLB is an important body and even with all the criticism placed on it, it shouldn’t be forgotten that the AIMPLB is a representative body of Indian Muslims. Even now the Muslim masses listen to the calls made by the AIMPLB.
Uzma Nahid comes from a family of the founders of University of Deoband. Her father Maulana Ahmad Salim Qasmi is the vice chancellor of the Darul Uloom Deoband Waqf.
The AIMPLB can work as an agency which can pressurize the government to formulate concrete policies which could solve the problems of the community. If the body has to make itself relevant to the community then it must expand its working areas urgently because it is the need of the hour, argued Uzma Nahid.
Detailed interview on this topic will be available on TwoCircles.net tomorrow.