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Muslim women go door-to-door to collect signatures against Uniform Civil Code


Signature form from AIMPLB against UCC

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net,

Mumbai: A signature campaign by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) against the Uniform Civil Code is finding good response from Muslim women who have themselves taken it as a responsibility of collecting signature from fellow women and thereby displaying strong opposition for any changes in Muslim Personal laws.

AIMPB, the apex body of Indian Muslims comprising organisations representing all schools of Islamic thought, has taken up the signature campaign while boycotting the questionnaire sent by the Law Commission. It has prepared a form that states Muslim women are satisfied with existing personal laws and do not want Uniform civil code, and is signed by Muslim women after providing her unique identification number – Aadhar card or Passport number of a PAN number.

The form provides AIMPLB’s address in the end and ask for posting the filled form there or to send scanned copy of the filled form to its email address. AIMPLB proposes to submit these filled-in forms to the President and the Law Commission.

Each form can be signed by women along with their names and addresses.

The form was distributed after Friday prayer at different mosques and Muslim women have decided to get it filled by local residents in the respective towns and cities, who are otherwise not worried or not aware of the happenings.

The form reads, “We the undersigned, Muslim women do hereby declare that we are fully satisfied with all the rulings of Islam Shariah, particularly Nikah, inheritance, divorce, khula and Faskh (dissolution of marriage). We deny that these need any reform or there is any scope for change therein. We fully support All India Muslim Personal Law Board and firmly stand with it in its endeavours to safeguard shariah law. We wish to make it absolutely clear that shariah law does not need any change, rather what really required is eradication of social evils, cultivation of good habits and overcoming weaknesses and honestly following the shariah.”