Wednesday, May 3, 2006

I have logical and some valid reasons to be happy. I am pleased in the sense that even the Almighty Allah listened to my reasoning.

If you recall dear readers, some two weeks back I had printed one sad event wherein one very happy Muslim couple with two kids somewhere near Calcutta, India, had to face terrible circumstances as per the Muslim Shariayat.

The event was that the husband in the family one night inadvertently or in his dream uttered the words Talaq..Talaq..Talaq which later brought disaster in the otherwise happy family of four including the couple.

The husband and his wife, as printed in the media, loved each other beyond explanation. However, the Muslim law and the Moulvis in the vicinity took the words in dream in a terrible way and thus the couple have had to separate. I had then pleaded my Muslim friends here and there that such drastic practices should change with the time and the changing societal patterns.

My modest appeal to the Muslim friends was rejected by the Moulvis and the couple had to divorce.

But then the happy news is that the wife, say one of the victim, filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court of India.

The Court became serious and provided a unique verdict recently.

It should have been the third week of April last month, one of the Indian Television news channels reported that the Court gave its verdict in favor of the petitioner that is the lady.

The court apparently said that Marriage was a bond that could not so easily be broken and since the husband was found to have gulped Alcohol so his words could well be dismissed.

The court further suggested the Muslim high priests to reconsider their verdict and allow the freshly divorced couple to reunite.

That was a decision I liked because I too feel that the mere utterance of the very special word for three times in series should not be encouraged in this modern society.

I wish all the best for the couple, which got reunited by the Court's verdict. I appeal the Muslim high priests also to change their old mind-sets and come up with new ideas and laws that encouraged a family to continue forever. Let happiness prevail in that family for all along they live in this earth. After all marriage is a sort of bond and also a contract in between the husband and the wife. How could this glued unbreakable bond be left to the mercy of the husband alone? After all, the wife, a lady, a woman, a mighty human being who gives birth to a personality and later shapes the society everywhere be treated this unkind way?

However, I beg pardon from my Muslim friends if my write up in any way has hurt their sentiments. I respect their laws and the traditions. Nevertheless, I would wish certain changes they bring in order to make their own society more prosperous and a modern one suiting to this modern age.

We the Hindus believe that where women are respected, Gods prefer to live in such vicinity. It is not that we the Hindus treat women in a manner that we preach. No! We too become dangerous creatures at times when it comes to the matters related to the women folks.

Take it easy. I mean no harm to my Muslim friends.