Nikah solemnized by woman in Lucknow

The nikah of Naish and Imran, which was solemnized by a woman qazi, has created much controversy and debate among the Islamic clergy in Lucknow.

At their wedding here Tuesday night, the qazi's task was performed by Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, who is a member of the Planning Commission of India.

Naish Hasan, 34, is a postgraduate in economics and women rights activist running her own NGO, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, which had recently brought out its own draft of nikahnama.

Its version of nikahnama was in sharp deviation from the traditional one but it was claimed to be in the larger interest of Muslim women and had no room for separation by triple utterance of the word talaq.

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