Law experts and scholars agreed that knowing the religion and Quran in better way will solve all the problems.
By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,
Guwahati: The status of women in Islam and the needs to reform the laws were discussed in a seminar ‘Status of women in Islam and the need to reform and codify Muslim personal Laws in India’ in Guwahati on Sunday. Experts from different fields joined the seminar and highlighted the rights of women given in Islam.
Law experts and scholars agreed that knowing the religion and Quran in better way will solve all the problems. “The religion has never deterred women from enjoying the rights. In fact Islam is the only religion in which women are given a high place. One has to be aware of one’s rights to be called a better citizen,” said senior advocate and professor Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury, addressing the seminar which was organized by My-FACTS and Bagh Hazarika Centre for Cultural Studies.
Senior Advocate Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury speaking on the occasion.
They also felt that lack of knowledge of Islam and Quran is the main reason of not being able to know one’s rights as a citizen and as human. “A good Muslim will never involve in any anti-national or any negative sort of activities which will harm the humanity,” he added.
Dr Ilias Ali, professor of surgery cum HOD of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Centre of Guwhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) who was also a distinguished speaker on the occasion said that Islam is a religion in which women’s place is very high. “To know the reality people have to read the history of Islam. The youths have to come forward to know the religion in a better way to know the truth and the rights,” Ali said.
The participants also advocated that by spreading awareness and education all the ill-concepts can be eradicated from the religion. Justice Aftab Hussain Saikia, chairman of Assam Human Rights Commission, who is also the former Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Sikkim High Court also attended the event. Justice Saikia also highlighted the status of women in Islam and Quran.