Breaking the age-old tradition of male qazi’s performing nikah, Uttar Pradesh State Planning Commission member Syeda Hamid, a Shia Muslim, performed the nikah of Sunni Muslims Naish Hasan and Imran at a Lucknow hotel on August 12.
Naish runs her own NGO, while Imran is a PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University and works for another NGO. Interestingly, the nikahnama was also the one drafted by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, a voluntary organisation founded by activist Muslim women, including Naish, who saw a male bias in the conventional nikahnama.
Mahmood said it was being projected by a section of the media as an epoch-making event but dismissed by the Muslim clergy as an insignificant incident.
Maintaining that there was nothing in Islamic law that prevented women from performing any of the roles traditionally considered to be monopoly of men, Mahmood said: “Assigning any such role to a woman, even though in an isolated case, is bound to impact the tradition-bound Muslim society. It must be hailed.”
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