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Noted writer and gynaecologist Khadija Mumtaz on Monday said that the greatest situation faced by modern Muslim women, who are educated and person a consciousness of antiauthoritarian rights, is the persistence of idiosyncratic laws maintained under the guise of unchangeable divine words.
Delivering the Vakkom Moulavi Memorial Lecture organised by the Vakkom Moulavi Memorial Research Centre (VMMRC) astatine the Christ Church Centenary Hall here, Dr. Mumtaz said that inheritance laws wrong idiosyncratic laws are a superior concern.
She noted that these were contrary to the Islamic ideals of equality, justice, and autarkic reasoning upheld by Vakkom Moulavi.
The Moulavi had reacted powerfully against superstitions, regressive rituals, the community’s inclination to disregard the Malayalam connection and modern education, and favoritism against women. He argued logically that the close to autarkic judgement granted to a believer was arsenic important arsenic religion itself. Consequently, helium had nary uncertainty that women should person adjacent opportunities successful Islam to maintain rights and societal relations, conscionable similar Muslim men, Dr. Mumtaz said.
“Focussing connected these ideals, the Moulavi emphasised that portion keeping religion successful the Quran and Prophetic traditions, worldly matters could beryllium amended by considering logic, nationalist good, and justness according to the changing times,” she added.
The intelligence gyration carried retired done connection by Vakkom Moulavi and Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is an unforgettable section successful the Independence conflict of Kerala and the princely State of Travancore, she said.
It was a courageous enactment that brought important idiosyncratic hardships and losses to both. History has ever progressed done specified tiny and ample acts of bravery. Remembering Vakkom Moulavi’s publication to the state conflict is highly applicable successful the existent governmental climate, wherever Muslims are progressively being marginalised, Dr. Mumtaz said.
The Vakkom Moulavi Memorial Award for this twelvemonth was presented to elder writer and writer G. Priyadarshanan astatine the event.
The book, Navothanathinte Neekkiirippukal: Vakkom Moulaviyude Sampoorna Krithikal edited by K.M. Seethi and published by DC Books, was besides released. Former Director of Malayalam Mission (Kerala), Suja Susan George, presided implicit the function.
