CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Muslim Women’s Rights Day is observed every year on the 01st of August to celebrate the enforcement of the law against the ‘Triple Talaq’ rule among Muslims.

Detailed explanation-2: -The practice of talaq-e-biddat is said to have been around since the period of Caliph Umar, more than 1400 years ago. The Supreme Court described it as “manifestly arbitrary” and said that it allows a man to “break down [a] marriage whimsically and capriciously". Instant divorce is termed talaq-e-bid’at.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Quran explicitly states that men and women are equal in the eyes of God. Furthermore, the Quran: forbids female infanticide (practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia and other parts of the world) instructs Muslims to educate daughters as well as sons.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Islam a woman is a completely independent personality. She can make any contract or bequest in her own name. She is entitled to inherit in her position as mother, as wife, as sister and as daughter. She has perfect liberty to choose her husband.