 KARACHI: The Singh [sic] government has nullified a fatwa (edict) issued by a Hyderabad mufti declaring inter-sect marriages "haram" and calling those who resort to such marriages as infidels.
| "They're legal as long as the parties are closely enough related..." |
Sources in the Sindh Home Department said Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hafeez Qadri of Madrassa Ahsanul Barkat, Hyderabad, had issued a controversial fatwa declaring that marriages between Sunnis, Deobandis and Shias were "haram". The fatwa declares that "marriage between Sunni and Deobandi or Shia is invalid due to the latter's anti-Quran and Hadith beliefs and those not taking into account such beliefs would be infidels."
| "Which means they must be killed. So there." |
The sources said the home department had sought opinion on the fatwa from the provincial government's legal experts, who viewed that the fatwa was liable to forfeiture under Section 99-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) because it contained material intended to promote hatred and animosity between various sects of the Muslims of the country and to jeopardise brotherly relations and harmony existing among them. |