Muslim Personal Law Board to approach SC on Hijab ban in educational institutions | India News

NEW DELHI: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday said that they have decided to approach the Supreme Court to appeal against the Karnataka High Court‘s order that upholds the ban on hijab in educational institutions.
The Board has also appealed to Muslim clerics, leaders, intellectuals, education issues and industrialists to come forward and set-up schools for girls to encourage Muslim girls to enroll and continue their education.
Also they have called for holding peaceful protests in any state where girls wearing head scarves are prevented from attending classes.
A decision to approach the SC to appeal against the HC order was taken at an online meeting attended by the members of the Board’s legal cell and other senior functionaries. A consensus was reached that they must approach the Supreme Court as they feel the HC order disregards the rights pertaining to personal liberty and tries to decide what is essential and not essential in Islam.
Reacting to the HC verdict on March 15, AIMPLB general secretary,
Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani had refuted the claim that hijab is not essential to Islam and said banning it is intrusion in constitutional rights of Muslim citizens.
“Islam and Shariat have made certain things farz (duty) and wajib (obligatory) on Muslims and it is lazim (pre-requisite) that they be followed. Hijab is one such obligation which is a prerequisite. If certain Muslims in their ignorance and laziness do not perform namaz or roza, they cannot be eliminated from Islam but they do commit a sin. Similarly, if certain Muslims don’t follow the hijab, it does not make the act non-essential to Islam,” explained Maulana Rahmani.
“Secondly, it is the constitutional right of every individual to wear what he deems fit,” he added.
In that context, the AIMPLB general secretary said, stopping Muslims students to wear the hijab appears to be discriminatory on the basis of religion. “Definitely schools have the right to decide upon a uniform as far as their boundary walls are concerned, but it has also come to our notice that the case that went in court was not related to schools but was for colleges, where the coercion of uniforms cannot be made,” he said.

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