Updated on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 18:53 IST Tags:Muslim, Marriage
Lucknow: With a view to checking ostentatious display of wealth, All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) today suggested using mosques and imambaras for holding marriage functions.
The board in its annual session in New Delhi later this month would be passing a resolution to this effect for making it mandatory for the community to use mosques and imambaras for holding 'nikahs' so as to check unnecessary expenditures, AISPLB president Maulana Mirza Mohamad Athar told reporters here.
There has been a growing trend among the community of solemnising weddings at banquet halls or hotels which add on to the burden on the bride's family, he said, adding this could be checked by using imambaras and mosques, which have ample land in and around, for holding such ceremonies.
Athar said there is no ban on holding such functions at mosques and imambaras and if brought into practice it will also narrow the gap between the rich and poor.
He said the annual meeting of the Shia Board on Oct 25 would also press on checking the practice of dowry. The practice of organising community feast after burial should also be stopped as it poses unnecessary burden on the poor.
The national policy for Shias and reservation for the community in Parliament are also some of the issues which will be discussed in the meet, he said.
Bureau Report
Restricting ostentation at marriages is one thing the Hindus also should emulate.
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Lucknow: With a view to checking ostentatious display of wealth, All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) today suggested using mosques and imambaras for holding marriage functions.
The board in its annual session in New Delhi later this month would be passing a resolution to this effect for making it mandatory for the community to use mosques and imambaras for holding 'nikahs' so as to check unnecessary expenditures, AISPLB president Maulana Mirza Mohamad Athar told reporters here.
There has been a growing trend among the community of solemnising weddings at banquet halls or hotels which add on to the burden on the bride's family, he said, adding this could be checked by using imambaras and mosques, which have ample land in and around, for holding such ceremonies.
Athar said there is no ban on holding such functions at mosques and imambaras and if brought into practice it will also narrow the gap between the rich and poor.
He said the annual meeting of the Shia Board on Oct 25 would also press on checking the practice of dowry. The practice of organising community feast after burial should also be stopped as it poses unnecessary burden on the poor.
The national policy for Shias and reservation for the community in Parliament are also some of the issues which will be discussed in the meet, he said.
Bureau Report
Restricting ostentation at marriages is one thing the Hindus also should emulate.
http://www.zeenews.com/news572378.html
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