Bareilly: The Dargah-e-Ala Hazrat on Wednesday issued a 'fatwa' against love jihad law meant to curb rising cases of forced religious conversions through fraudulent means.
The fatwa, which is making rounds on social media, stated that deliberate forceful conversions solely for the purpose of marriage are wrong.
National Sunni Ulama Council President Maulana Waitat Ahmad Qadri asked, "Can a Muslim boy force a non-Muslim girl to change her religion for the purpose of getting married? Does the Sharia law talks about the existence of Love Jihad?"
The fatwa issued by Darul Ifta president Mufti Musibur Rahman Rajvi states that in the light of the Quran and Sharia, that it is illegal to force someone to get their religion converted by alluring them. Rajvi extended support to the Uttar Pradesh government's love jihad ordinance draft which recently got the governor's nod.
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"Islam has no mention or place of social evils like love jihad which are influenced by the western culture," it said, adding that even the religion does not permit nikkah without a girl's consent.
It said, "Love is an English term and Jihad an Arabic, and they are not connected to each other. People who indulge in such fraudulent activities have no place in Islam."
Two days earlier, a first FIR under the newly promulgated ordinance on love jihad was registered in Bareilly.
Tikaram, a resident of the Sharif Nagar village under Devraniya police station, had filed a complaint that youth from his village lured his daughter and is now forcing her for religious conversion.
