The internationally reputed Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband and other Islamic institutions have welcomed the recent judgment of the hon’ble Delhi high court upholding the right of a 15 year old Muslim girl to stay married and rejecting her mother’s claim that she was a minor girl who had been abducted against her will. One should understand that there is Muslim personal law in our country and Muslims are governed by it.
The hue and cry made by some activists’ against the judgment has no meaning. In fact the above judgment is a shining example of a very rational approach to a burning issue like marriage. The hon’ble judges actually saved the marriage and also the couple.
There have been child marriages taking place throughout the world. It depends upon socio-economic conditions. All the religions Hinduism, Christianity, Islam etc. are not opposed to the marriages of girls below 18 years. Many Sankaracharyas have said that girls should be married as soon as they attain puberty.
UNICEF’s “State of the World’s Children-2009” report says that 47% of India’s women aged 20-24 were married before the legal age of 18. Even in the United States laws regarding marriage vary in different states. Generally girls 16 and over may marry with parental consent although 18 is the minimum age in most states to marry without parental consent. The report also shows that 40% of the world’s child marriages occur in India.
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