THE DRAFT MARRIAGES BILL WHAT TO OBJECT?
The Draft Marriages Bill which is open for comment until 31st August 2023 is not like the previous three KUFR marriages bills spawned by a motley of mixed Muslim, Zindeeq and Munaafiq characters. The previous trash bills were known as MPL, MMB and the latest was the KMB (Kufr Marriages Bill) of Mr.Ganief Hendricks.
The three kufr bills were directed against Muslims. Muslims were the targets. The current Draft Marriages Bill does not single out the Muslim community. It is a simple Taaghuti Bill just as all man-made laws are. Muslims should not confuse the current Bill with the previous three kufr bills.
Our objection should not be against the entire Bill which is just as Taaghuti as are all the other Acts of law. Our objection is not an attempt to acquire a Bill to conform with the Shariah. This is not the motive of our objection. The Bill is related to the entire population of whatever hue and ideology the people are.
We are required by the Shariah to object to a specific clause which provides for criminalization of performing our Nikahs in the Musaajid by our Imaams. There is no need whatsoever to object to the mass of kufr provisions in the Bill. Our objection is restricted to No.22 (8) of Chapter 7 of the Draft Marriages Bill
which states:
“Any person who knowingly, whilst not being designated as a marriage officer, solemnizes a marriage which he or she is not authorised, under this Act, to solemnize or solemnizes a marriage which, to his knowledge, is legally prohibited, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 5 years or both to such a fine or imprisonment.”
It is necessary for this provision to be rephrased and remedied to exclude Muslim marriages performed in the Musaajid by Imaams who are not registered marriage officers. The remedial measure is extremely simple. The clause should simply read that marriages not performed according to the Act are not valid.
There is no constitutional impediment to prevent this remedy nor is there any constitutional requisite to compel criminalization of religious marriages which do not conform with the Act. Just as all unmarried people are regarded as being unmarried, so too, may the government regard Muslims who marry in the Musjid to be ‘unmarried’.
Muslims are not seeking secular recognition. Those Muslims who are interested in secular recognition of their marriages for some secular reasons, may do so after their Nikah. But the Nikah cannot be eliminated under any circumstances. Legal recognition never was the clamour of Muslims. Misguided characters such as Ganief Hendricks and deviate entities have monotonously piped the theme of legal recognition on the basis of their hallucinated hardships for women.
Our marriages are recognized by Allah Ta’ala. The stupid phrase, ‘never married’ on some legal scrap papers does not bother us. It does not cancel our Nikahs. Only morons extremely deficient in Imaan or bereft of Imaan make a stupid issue out of this stupidity.
When lodging your objection, object, be concerned with only the aforementioned provision. It is Waajib for all Muslims to object.
Send your objection to:
E-mail: Moses.Malakate@dha.gov.za / Agnes.Molefe@dha.gov.za
23 Muharram 1445 – 11 August 2023