A Historical Judgement: Victory for our Muslim Sisters
" A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new… when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance….. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?” This quote from India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech, immort alised a moment – the stroke of midnight on 15 th August 1947 - and heralded a new age, as India breathed freedom and unburdened itself of the yoke of centuries of servitude. These words could be perhaps used as appropriately for the historic Judgement that was pronounced on 22 nd September 2017, against the practice of Triple Talaq by the five member bench of the Supreme Court. While there are three forms of initiating divorce under Muslim law, this particular form of divorce named t alaq-e-biddat or instant and irrevocable talaq , an increasingly popular form adopted by m...