south african muslims oppose the MPL (muslim personal law) Bill
%u201CThen We established you on a Shariah with regard to (your affairs). Therefore follow IT, and do not follow the base desires of those who do not know (what they are doing).%u201D
(Qur%u2019aan)
Resurrecting the haraam mpl bill
Muslims will recall that not so long ago there was intense argument in the community on the so-called Muslim Personal Law Bill (MPL). The vehement objection of the Muslim community to the proposed MPL Bill which was an abhorrent act of mutilation of the Shariah, had compelled the votaries of the Haraam Bill to shelve and abandon the exercise. While they had gone into hibernation, it appears that they had no real intention of abandoning the Haraam Bill. Moves are currently being made to resurrect the Bill and to have it imposed on Muslims in contravention of their Islamic and constitutional rights.
In the past, the MPL plot had failed on three occasions. Each time that the satanic MPL head appeared, it was beaten down by the Muslim community. This time, those molvis and sheikhs who are bent on tampering with the Shariah, have adopted another cunning stratagem. They have taken cover behind the skirts of non-Muslim women whom they have put up as a front for their nefarious MPL conspiracy. Their front is the Women%u2019s Legal Centre (WLC) which is a non-Muslim women%u2019s organization.
The WLC has brought an application in the Constitutional Court seeking an order to compel the government to introduce an MPL Bill for the enactment of legislation to %u2018recognize%u2019 Muslim marriages and to regulate the consequences of such legal recognition. By %u2018recognition%u2019 is meant legal recognition by the secular non-Muslim government. Our marriages are recognized in the Heavens and are recorded in the Sacred Tablet in Looh-e-Mahfooz. We do not need a %u2018recognition%u2019 at the cost of tampering and mutilating the Shariah of Allah Ta%u2019ala.
In the past we have explained in detail in booklets as well as in many issues of The Majlis the evils, harms and dangers of MPL which is a plot to cancel the divine Shariah of the Qur%u2019aan. The MPL conspiracy originated in the West. It is a plot to bring about change of Islam from within in subtle ways and stratagems, and by camouflaging the kufr with Islamic nomenclature. We shall, Insha%u2019Allah, once again be publishing a series of literature to educate Muslims on this haraam MPL issue.
The immediate demand is for the Muslim community to voice strong objection and to protest against the legal action which the WLC has initiated against the government. The non-Muslim Women%u2019s Legal Centre has no right to represent the Muslim community, least of all Muslim Women. While the plotters against Islam are clamouring for a Muslim Personal Law Bill, their silence regarding a Jewish Personal Law Bill and a Hindu Personal Law Bill is deafening and sinister. Why did this non-Muslim women%u2019s organization select the Muslim community for its suspicious action?
It is the Waajib duty of every Muslim %u2013 man and woman %u2013 as well as of organizations, to write to the WLC to make them aware that we detest their intrusion in our religious affairs. They must be warned to abstain from entanglement in Islamic affairs. Write to them, and highlight the following facts:
(1) You (i.e. the Women%u2019s Legal Centre) do not represent the Muslim community.
(2) You have not been mandated by the Muslim community to speak on behalf of its women.
(3) Muslim women are satisfied with the Shariah of the Qur%u2019aan, and they do not need your interference.
(5) We do not want any Muslim Personal Law legislation. We are opposed to it and reject it.
(6) Abandon your legal attempt to have imposed on us laws which are in conflict with our Shariah.
The contact details of the WLC are: The Women%u2019s Legal Centre, P.O.Box 5356, Cape Town 8000. Fax 021-421 1386.
%u201CThen We established you on a Shariah with regard to (your affairs). Therefore follow IT, and do not follow the base desires of those who do not know (what they are doing).%u201D
(Qur%u2019aan)
Resurrecting the haraam mpl bill
Muslims will recall that not so long ago there was intense argument in the community on the so-called Muslim Personal Law Bill (MPL). The vehement objection of the Muslim community to the proposed MPL Bill which was an abhorrent act of mutilation of the Shariah, had compelled the votaries of the Haraam Bill to shelve and abandon the exercise. While they had gone into hibernation, it appears that they had no real intention of abandoning the Haraam Bill. Moves are currently being made to resurrect the Bill and to have it imposed on Muslims in contravention of their Islamic and constitutional rights.
In the past, the MPL plot had failed on three occasions. Each time that the satanic MPL head appeared, it was beaten down by the Muslim community. This time, those molvis and sheikhs who are bent on tampering with the Shariah, have adopted another cunning stratagem. They have taken cover behind the skirts of non-Muslim women whom they have put up as a front for their nefarious MPL conspiracy. Their front is the Women%u2019s Legal Centre (WLC) which is a non-Muslim women%u2019s organization.
The WLC has brought an application in the Constitutional Court seeking an order to compel the government to introduce an MPL Bill for the enactment of legislation to %u2018recognize%u2019 Muslim marriages and to regulate the consequences of such legal recognition. By %u2018recognition%u2019 is meant legal recognition by the secular non-Muslim government. Our marriages are recognized in the Heavens and are recorded in the Sacred Tablet in Looh-e-Mahfooz. We do not need a %u2018recognition%u2019 at the cost of tampering and mutilating the Shariah of Allah Ta%u2019ala.
In the past we have explained in detail in booklets as well as in many issues of The Majlis the evils, harms and dangers of MPL which is a plot to cancel the divine Shariah of the Qur%u2019aan. The MPL conspiracy originated in the West. It is a plot to bring about change of Islam from within in subtle ways and stratagems, and by camouflaging the kufr with Islamic nomenclature. We shall, Insha%u2019Allah, once again be publishing a series of literature to educate Muslims on this haraam MPL issue.
The immediate demand is for the Muslim community to voice strong objection and to protest against the legal action which the WLC has initiated against the government. The non-Muslim Women%u2019s Legal Centre has no right to represent the Muslim community, least of all Muslim Women. While the plotters against Islam are clamouring for a Muslim Personal Law Bill, their silence regarding a Jewish Personal Law Bill and a Hindu Personal Law Bill is deafening and sinister. Why did this non-Muslim women%u2019s organization select the Muslim community for its suspicious action?
It is the Waajib duty of every Muslim %u2013 man and woman %u2013 as well as of organizations, to write to the WLC to make them aware that we detest their intrusion in our religious affairs. They must be warned to abstain from entanglement in Islamic affairs. Write to them, and highlight the following facts:
(1) You (i.e. the Women%u2019s Legal Centre) do not represent the Muslim community.
(2) You have not been mandated by the Muslim community to speak on behalf of its women.
(3) Muslim women are satisfied with the Shariah of the Qur%u2019aan, and they do not need your interference.
(5) We do not want any Muslim Personal Law legislation. We are opposed to it and reject it.
(6) Abandon your legal attempt to have imposed on us laws which are in conflict with our Shariah.
The contact details of the WLC are: The Women%u2019s Legal Centre, P.O.Box 5356, Cape Town 8000. Fax 021-421 1386.
we the undersigned wish to bring your attention to the following:
The WLC has brought an application in the Constitutional Court seeking an order to compel the government to introduce an MPL Bill for the enactment of legislation to %u2018recognize%u2019 Muslim marriages and to regulate the consequences of such legal recognition. By %u2018recognition%u2019 is meant legal recognition by the secular non-Muslim government. Our marriages are recognized in the Heavens and are recorded in the Sacred Tablet in Looh-e-Mahfooz. We do not need a %u2018recognition%u2019 at the cost of tampering and mutilating the Shariah of Allah Ta%u2019ala.
In the past we have explained in detail in booklets as well as in many issues of The Majlis the evils, harms and dangers of MPL which is a plot to cancel the divine Shariah of the Qur%u2019aan. The MPL conspiracy originated in the West. It is a plot to bring about change of Islam from within in subtle ways and stratagems, and by camouflaging the kufr with Islamic nomenclature. We shall, Insha%u2019Allah, once again be publishing a series of literature to educate Muslims on this haraam MPL issue.
The immediate demand is for the Muslim community to voice strong objection and to protest against the legal action which the WLC has initiated against the government. The non-Muslim Women%u2019s Legal Centre has no right to represent the Muslim community, least of all Muslim Women. While the plotters against Islam are clamouring for a Muslim Personal Law Bill, their silence regarding a Jewish Personal Law Bill and a Hindu Personal Law Bill is deafening and sinister. Why did this non-Muslim women%u2019s organization select the Muslim community for its suspicious action?
It is the Waajib duty of every Muslim %u2013 man and woman %u2013 as well as of organizations, to write to the WLC to make them aware that we detest their intrusion in our religious affairs. They must be warned to abstain from entanglement in Islamic affairs. Write to them, and highlight the following facts:
(1) You (i.e. the Women%u2019s Legal Centre) do not represent the Muslim community.
(2) You have not been mandated by the Muslim community to speak on behalf of its women.
(3) Muslim women are satisfied with the Shariah of the Qur%u2019aan, and they do not need your interference.
(5) We do not want any Muslim Personal Law legislation. We are opposed to it and reject it.
(6) Abandon your legal attempt to have imposed on us laws which are in conflict with our Shariah.
our religion is sufficient for us
We value our religion too much to allow people uneducated in Islamic law to tamper with or change these laws.
the Muslim community rejects this bill. please respect the muslims
Please stop meddling in muslim life. We do not need your new bill, it only regulates the agenda's of politicians and anti muslim bigotry. Leave us alone. We have gold and you are trying to sell us brass. You are invading the sanctity of our religion and our privacy
Dear Madam, I and my family wish to add our voices to that of those who object to your organisation – non-Muslim organisation – meddling with the religious affairs of the Muslims. I am sure that you are aware that the attempt to pass the bill on Muslim marriages was shelved after a storm of protest broke out in the community against the bill. Despite this, you feel so strongly about the so-called “injustices” (Laudium Sun March 13, 2009) suffered by Muslim women who abide by Islamic law, that you are going to the trouble and expense of forcing the bill on the Muslims of the country. The obvious implication is that you are quite happy with the situation of women in other groups and that is why you are not so energetic in having parliament pass laws “protecting” women in these other groups. The fact that Muslims form only approximately 2% of the population, while these other groups combined are in the majority, makes your action appear very strange From the above I can conclude the following: (1) Your values are different from ours. (2) You are not fully aware of the rights women enjoy under Islamic law. With regard to (1) above let me give you just one example: I have had many unmarried women coming to me in order to conceive. When asked why do they not wait until they are married, the answer given is that, traditionally, the boy-friend wants to see if she is fertile and can fall pregnant before marrying her. If they do not fall pregnant, the boy-friend ditches them for somebody else. In some instances, the boy-friend does not marry the girl-friend even after having fathered her child, as he finds another girl-friend more appealing to her. The fact that you have not forced the government to pass a bill for the “Protection of Traditional Marriages” in all these past decades indicates that, in your eyes, these women are “liberated” and not suffering any “injustices”! With regard to (2) above, you and your group obviously need to be informed about the true rights enjoyed by Muslim women under Islamic law. I will send to you articles on this subject from time to time. Kindly circulate these articles (and this note as well) to all the women belonging to your group. A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE WHEN YOU READ THESE ARTICLES: PLEASE PERUSE THE ARTICLE BELOW, BY SOME CHRISTIANS, VERY CAREFULLY AND THEN COMPARE THE SITUATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN TO THAT OF THE WOMEN MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE Yours faithfully, Drs. I. Mangera & A.B. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Frank Stone To: deboraP@etv.co.za Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 7:50:19 PM Subject: Fw: Campaign to remove bad verses from the Bible! Hello Debora Patta Please join in this campaign to have the following verses from the Bible removed as it degrades women by calling them 'dogs' , plague, and encouraging the killing of babies and innocents. With your high profile I am sure it can be done.. Kind regards, Frank I call upon every one of us to take a stand and inform our Church Leaders to remove the vulgar and dangerous verses and revise this book called The Bible, as it makes the people who believe in this book to be labeled as brutal and murderous peoples with no compassion towards humankind and animals. Perhaps you can publish this in your esteemed magazine and ask people to please lobby their local Church leaders to do something urgently, PLEASE!!!! Also forward this email to your contacts to also join in this campaign to inform them of doing their bit. I say that it is really commendable that the state organs [and the state] places so much emphasis on the safety of the vulnerable, especially the elderly, women and children. This must be a priority all over the world, but how can we as a society call for a halt against violence when the Holy Book the majority of the European nations, the USA , and South Africa is full of teachings of hate and cruelty against women, children and humanity. Read for yourself and verify with your own Bibles. BIBLE ORDERS TO KILL BABIES AND TO BE HAPPY WHILE DOING IT: Happy To Kill Children: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.." (Psalms 137:9, KJV) "How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock." (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible) BIBLE ORDERS THAT A WIFE’S HAND MUST BE CUT OFF BY HER OWN HUSBAND IF SHE HELPS TO SAVE HIS LIFE: Cut Off Her Hand! "When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her." (Deuteronomy 25:11-12) BIBLE TEACHES WOMAN ARE INFERIOR: Female Inferiority: "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.." (I Corinthians 11:3) "For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." (I Corinthians 11:8-9) BIBLE TEACHES THAT WOMEN ARE SLAVES OF MEN: Silence The Woman! "Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." (I Timothy 2:11-14) (See also I Cor.. 11:3-12, I Cor.. 14:34-36, I Peter 3:1-7, Ephesians 5:22-24, Col. 3:18-19.) BIBLE OKAYS RACIAL KILLINGS OF BLACK PEOPLES: God Slaughters Blacks: "And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots..." (II Chronicles 14:9) BIBLE OKAYS KILLING AND MURDER: Kill Man, Woman, Infant: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel , how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt . Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." (I Samuel 15:2-3) 1. DEATH TO THOSE WHO PISSITH AGAINST THE WALL: Pisseth Against Walls: "And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends." ( I Kings 16:11) BIBLE CONDONES SLAVERY AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SLAVES: God Accepts Slavery: "And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him forever." (Exodus 21:5-6) BIBLE DISCRIMINATES AGAINST A BABY GIRL: Female Births Get Penalty: "Speak unto the children of Israel , saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean." (Leviticus 12:2) "But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days." (Leviticus 12:5) BIBLE TEACHES THAT WOMEN ARE SUBSERVIENT TO MEN: Wives, Submit Yourselves! "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24) These words of Paul describe another instance for the calling of the submission of women to their husbands. Note that the all inclusive "everything" could allow husbands to submit their wives to anything, including rape, beatings, slavery, etc. (See also I Cor. 11:3-12, I Cor. 14:34-36, I Timothy 2:8-15, I Peter 3:1-7, Col. 3:18-19.) Women Shall Not Speak: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." (I Corinthians 14:34-35) If one ever wishes to find an explanation of woman's inferiority to men, one only has to look in the Bible. Paul makes clear and delineates the importance of woman recognizing her place, "ad nauseam." (See also I Cor. 11:3-12, I Timothy 2:8-15, I Peter 3:1-7, Ephesians 5:22-24, Col. 3:18-19.) "THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WOMEN BROUGHT SIN AND DEATH INTO THE WORLD, THAT SHE PRECIPITATED THE FALL OF THE RACE, THAT SHE WAS ARRAIGNED BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF HEAVEN, TRIED, CONDEMNED AND SENTENCED.. MARRIAGE FOR HER WAS TO BE A CONDITION OF BONDAGE, MATERNITY A PERIOD SUFFERING AND ANGUISH, AND IN SILENCE AND SUBJECTION, SHE WAS TO PLAY THE ROLE OF A DEPENDENT ON MAN'S BOUNTY FOR ALL HER MATERIAL WANTS, AND FOR ALL THE INFORMATION SHE MIGHT DESIRE... HERE IS THE BIBLE POSITION OF WOMAN BRIEFLY SUMMED UP." -- ELIZABETH CADY STANTON BIBLE SAYS WOMEN ARE WICKED AND LIKE DOGS, AND MUST BE DOMINATED BY MEN: The Wicked Woman: "Give me any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman." (Eccles. 25:13) "Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die." (Eccles. 25:22) "If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go." (Eccles. 25: 26) "The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids. If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty." (Eccles. 26:9-10) "A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord: and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.. A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued." (Eccles. 26:14-15) "A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is shamefaced will fear the Lord." (Eccles.26:25) "For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness. Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach." (Eccles.42:13-14) Ecclesiasticus of the Apocrypha does not appear in most Bibles. However, in Catholic Bibles, the inferiority of woman still appears in the verses of Ecclesiasticus. These verses give only a sampling from this book that lowers the status of women. It is high time that these types of words/ verses should be removed from the Bible. In predominantly Christian countries it is a shame on the Vatican and Clergy not to remove these verses. Is it any wonder then, that because of these types of Bible teachings thousands have abandoned this brutal and violent religion of Christianity and adopted other religions? Who in their right minds will want to have their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters and family females derogated in such horrile language, and believe that God would say that ?!!! Regards; Frank
My personal point of view, we are living in a democratic country and most of the islamic laws should be brought in to the constitution.
Take some time and familiarise yourself with Islam, before trying to pass judgement. Guaranteed, you will be shocked at finding just how deomocratic our religion is and what rights are afforded to every single person, be it man, woman or child, male or female. Under Islam even our animals are catered for. Please familiarise yourself with the comments from: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, MICHAEL H. HART, Lamar Tine, MAHATMA GANDHI, THOMAS CALYLE, DIWAN CHAND SHARMA, EDWARD GIBBON, SIMON OCKLEY, SAROJINI NAIDU (poet), PROF. HURGRONJE, K. S. RAMAKRISHNA RAO, to name a few. And none of the above are muslims, but look at what they say about our Prophet Muhammed (SAW)& Islam. The above people are held in very high esteem by the "Western" world, so should you not believe them? The state should have no rights over any religion just as religion does not have any rights over the state. Who mandated you to carry out this action?
I am deeply concerned with the plight of our muslims throughout the world and hope you will sign as well
If you have a pebble of no value, would you place it in a safe ? If you have a diamond of value, would you have it lying around ? The Islamic culture regards woman as diamonds whereas Western culture regards woman as pebbles.
The history of culture in Western society has been a tragedy up to the middle ages when under the blind grip of the Church, women were considered to be the incarnation of evil ! In Islam, the Glorious Qur'an emphasises, "that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" ! Those religions that portray the woman as a filthy creature are still in existence. Islam further emphasises the fact that the woman is the more important component of humanity & it is on this basis Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) stated as to why the woman is three times superior to man !!!! (extracts from : Islam To The Modern Mind)
