One crude example, the moment a girl enters into a matrimonial agreement, she is forced to change her identity
LAHORE: This refers to Tayyaba Tahir’s letter titled “Sons and daughters” published in The Express Tribune on March 5. The writer has raised an important question over the uncivilised conduct and behaviour against women that is a practice almost all over Pakistan. The mistreatment of womenfolk has become the norm in our society. In recent years, some religious schools specifically for girls have spread all over the country, where women are brainwashed to the extreme and are forced to cover themselves from top to toe.
Ms Tahir has very rightly stated that, “As a society, we consider our men to be above all laws of respect. This runs contrary to Islamic teachings, which say that sons should be taught the same virtues of modesty along with daughters.” Ironically, in every field and in our every endeavour we, the Muslims of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, move against the basic teachings of our faith. One crude example of this is the moment a girl enters into a matrimonial agreement, she is forced to change her identity by the in-laws or the husband by changing her last name to that of her husband’s family name although we find no such example in Islamic history.
Aamir Aqil
Published in The Express Tribune, March 7th, 2015.
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