Giving woman right to annul marriage against Shariah, says CII

ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared giving right to first wife to cancel her marriage if her husband contracts second marriage without her permission against Shariah.

The issue of Supreme Court’s decision, which allows a woman to cancel her marriage if her husband married another woman without her permission, came under discussion at the two-day 241st meeting of the CII, which concluded here on Tuesday.

“Any such court’s decision which gives right to a woman to cancel her marriage is against Shariat,” the CII meeting in its decision said.

CII Chairman Allama Dr Raghib Hussain Naeemi chaired the meeting which deferred a decision on the establishment of ‘Human Milk Bank’. The CII had invited four experts from the Sindh Institute of Neonatology who responded to CII’s 33 questions.

The religious forum on its own also conducted thorough research in view of importance of the issue; however, the participants decided to take up the matter in the next sitting.

The meeting also decided that transplantation of any organ like liver and kidney could be carried out if there is no danger to the life of donor.

The CII meeting also directed that Arabic words like ‘ Salaat, Ayat, Masjid’ should be used instead English-translated words ‘ prayers, verses, mosque’.

With regard to electricity theft, the CII meeting stressed that intellectuals should raise voice against the practice.

The council ruled that newly hired employees can be required to participate in the contributory pension system, but existing employees cannot be compelled to join it. It was also recommended that pension fund should be separated from interest-based system.

It was also recommended that test for Thalassemia disease could be made part of Nikahnama at discretion of the two sides.

The CII meeting also recommended that the amount of Zakat should be distributed among deserving people at the earliest. However, in case of delay, the same amount could be kept in profit accounts but the government would be responsible in case of any loss.

The meeting also decided that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Transgender Bill also contains contents against Shariah having clauses similar to that of Transgender Act 2018. “The Federal Shariat Court had already declared this Act as against Shariat,” the religious forum noted.

The CII meeting also offered Fateha for the departed soul of mother of Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir.

CII members Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry, Dr Abdul Ghafoor Raashid, Sahibzada Pir Khalid Sultan Qadari, Muhammad Jalaluddin, Mohtaram Farida Raheem, Altaf Ibrahim Hussain Qureshi, Dr Aziz Mahmood Al Azhari, Pir Shamsur Rehman Mashahdi, Allama Muhammad Yousuf Awan, Mufti Muhammad Zubair, Syed Iftikhar Hussain Naqvi, Muhmmad Shafiq Khan, Professor Dr Mufti Intikhab Ahmad, Hassan Haseebur Rehman, Sahibzada Hafiz Muhammad Amjad, Syed Saeedul Hassan and Muhammad Attiqur Rehman attended the meeting.