22 Zul Hajj 1439
3 September 2018

QUESTION

THE HIGH COURT’S VERDICT, STALE & REDUNDANT

The non-Muslim Women’s Legal Centre has nothing to gloat about in the verdict handed down by the kuffaar court. What the court has decreed is old wine in a new plastic bottle. As far as Muslim marriages are concerned, the position remains unchanged in terms of even the kuffaar law.

The order to the government to introduce legislation within 24 months to recognize Muslims marriages and to plan for their consequences has really no practical significance. What the court has said in its verdict is precisely what all the courts in the country have been decreeing for about 20 years. The kuffaar courts have always, without exception, decreed that Muslim marriages are valid for purposes of maintenance, custody, inheritance, etc. regardless of the fact that such marriages have not been contracted in accordance with the secular laws of the land.

MUSLIM MARRIAGES

THE COURT’S RULING AND THE STUPID GLOATING

The Western Cape High Court has ruled that the State has a constitutional obligation to enact legislation to recognize Muslim marriages and to regulate the consequences thereof. The court ordered that Parliament enacts such legislation within 24 months. 

The kuffaar Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) which had sought this ruling stupidly gloated that the judgment is an “enormous victory for Muslim women”.  The gloating by these kuffaar women is stupid and fallacious. There is no victory for Muslim women in this kufr judgment. True Muslim women do not in the first place approach the kuffaar court for directives in matters for which Allah Azza Wa Jal has already issued His Decree more than fourteen centuries ago. The Divine Orders of the Shariah are binding and final on all Muslims. Therefore, Muslims will not efface their Imaan by resorting to kuffaar courts for rulings which have no validity in the Shariah. 

THE KUFR OF THE MJC

Its kufr of joining the kuffaar faith leaders

QUESTION

Please comment on the MJC’s support and participation in the silent march of the faith leaders against lawlessness in the country. Among the participants of this silent march will be the Western Cape Christian Ministers Association, the Western Cape Religious Leaders Forum and the MJC. The silent peace and prayer walk will commence at the St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town to the Castle of Good Hope where a prayer session will take place. Is it permissible for a Muslim organization to join such an interfaith assembly?

ANSWER