The Idara-e Shar'iyya as a rival to the Imarat-e Shar'iyya

Question

Question: An institution has been established in Patna under the name “Idara-e Shar'iyya Bihar” (the Shari'a Administration of Bihar), one of whose aims, among other aims, is the establishment of a dar al-qada (Shari'a court). The need for it was felt as follows: in today's turbulent age piety is becoming a rare commodity; in India the married life of hundreds of thousands of women is under threat. There are many women whose husbands are missing (mafqud al-khabar)

Answer

The needs mentioned in the questions — and some other needs besides them — cause Muslim women and men severe hardship, which throws their lives into confusion, and they fall into all kinds of calamities and sins.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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