THE WORLD OF FATWAS by Arun Shourie

Author:Arun Shourie [Shourie, Arun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2013-12-23T18:30:00+00:00

A perfectly justifiable, even obvious question. But now see how the ulema deal with the querist and his query. The authority concerned first sets down some Hadis and obiter from law books like the Fatawa-i-Alamgiri to the effect that the triple divorce indeed ends the marriage. Next, he administers a stern admonition: laymen ought to stay clear of the subtleties of law, he declares, they should leave these to the experts. His admonition is indeed worth reading to see the assertions by which, and the fervour with which clerics safeguard their monopoly of ‘knowledge’, and thereby their hold over the community. Here is the admonition the Fatawa-i-Rahimiyyah administers:

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