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Khazis oppose government move

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VOICING OPPOSITION: Panakkad Syed Ummerali Shihab Thangal, Chairman of the Kerala State Wakf Board, inaugurating a meeting of Khazis in the city on Wednesday. —

Kozhikode: A congregation of Khazis and representatives of Muslim Mahals of Kerala held here on Wednesday decided to launch a campaign against the move by the State government to bring in a legislation for compulsory registration of marriage.

The meeting was organised under the banner of the Kerala Jam-Eyyathul Mahallu Val Khulathu attached to the Samasta Kerala Jam-eyyathul Ulama, a pro-Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) organisation. Over 700 khazis, mahal representatives, religious leaders from various parts of the State, Union Territory of Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh took part in the meeting.

They decided to form a State-level committee, a steering committee at the national-level and a legal committee in all districts to spearhead the movement against the proposal of the government. Such a meeting of khazis and representatives of Muslim Mahals was held for the first time in the State.

Inaugurating the conference, Panakkad Syed Ummerali Shihab Thangal, vice-president of the Samasta Kerala Jam-eyyathul Ulama and chairman of the Kerala State Wakf Board, said that registration of marriage at a government office would be inapplicable under the tenets of Islam.

Mandatory registration of marriages was un-Islamic under Shariat Laws. The government official entrusted to register a marriage should be a Muslim and even if he was a Muslim he may not know the Shariat laws in the conduct of marriages, he said.

Kerala Mahallu Jamaath Legal Council K. Noorudheen Musaliar and Mysore Khazi Syed Kudarathulla Al- Baquvi also spoke.

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