Women can offer prayers at mosques, ignore any fatwa barring item: Muslim Personal Law Board
(WorldNews India)

Entry of women into mosques to offer prayers, as per Islamic texts, is permitted, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said in a affidavit submitted before the Supreme Court. It also said any fatwa barring the item of women “may be ignored”. The submission was made in response to a plea seeking the apex court directions to allow women to enter a mosque and offer prayers. Last year, the Supreme Court admitted two pleas on the matter — one of which was moved by a Pune-based couple. The petition by Yasmeen Zuber Ahmad Peerzade and her husband Zuber Ahmad Nazir Ahmad Peerzade contended that `there is nothing in the Quran and the Hadith that requires gender...