The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, a leading organisations of Islamic scholars belonging to the Deobandi school of thought has made it categorical that the hijab is mandatory in Islam and stopping Muslim students from wearing it was against Article 25 of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of practising religion.
This declaration was made during a meeting of its Working Committee of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind led by the Arshad Madani faction.
He also said that Muslim children are in need of schools and colleges in which they can get higher education in a environment without any hindrance or discrimination.
The whole right to wear hijab started in Karnataka where a bunch of girls demanded that they should be allowed to wear this piece of clothing inside the classroom and now Madani who is an influential Islamic cleric known to provide lawyers to terror suspects said some “so-called educated people are giving a wrong impression that hijab is not obligatory in Islam and there is nothing mentioned about it in the Quran,”.
“There are Islamic guidelines on hijab in the Holy Quran and Hadith which clearly say that hijab is mandatory in Shariah,” Madani said.
The leader of this Islamist organisation called the hijab issue constitutional and said the prohibition of Muslim students from wearing the hijab is against Article 25 of the Constitution which gives rights to minorities and pointed out India has no state religion and it gives complete freedom to all citizens to practice their religion.
Though the Karnataka High Court concluded the hearing related to the ‘hijab’ case on Friday, it however decided to reserve its order.
A judicial Bench was constituted on February 9 comprising the Chief Justice, Justice Krishna S Dixit, and Justice Jaibunnisa M Khazi heard this case on a day-to-day basis over the last two weeks.
The whole hijab row started when a group of Muslim girls was allegedly denied entry into a pre-university college for girls in Udupi in December because wearing a hijab is violating the dress code.
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