Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) has lauded the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department's (Jais) action of gate-crashing a Hindu wedding to take away the bride which it suspected was a Muslim.
According to Isma's official website, the NGO's ulama council chairperson Aznan Hasan (right) said Jais' action was an attempt to prevent vice from happening.
"In this case, Jais' action was 'saddu-al-zarai' (preventing vices)," he said, adding that the move was in accordance with'syarak' (Islamic law).
"In fact, it is the responsibility of (Islamic) religious institutions to ensure incidences that go against 'syarak' do not happen (and in this case) the marriage of a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim," he said.
Aznan conceded that it was better if Jais had conducted its investigation prior to the wedding but said the agency may have only received information at the last minute therefore the action was "correct and necessary".
The bride, Zarina Abdullah Majid, had said she was converted to Islam as a child by her Muslim convert father without the family's knowledge.
However, Zarina insisted that she has been a practising Hindu all her life and has not had any contact with her father, who abandoned the family 20 years ago.
Zarina said she had attempted to reverse the conversion for seven years but to no avail, thus finally deciding to marry a Hindu man regardless of her status.
Aznan also hit out at NGO Sisters in Islam for stating that Zarina's case was a product of unilateral conversion by one parent, insisting that the children belong to the Muslim parent if one partner converts to Islam.
However, he conceded that in Zarina's case, the father had failed his duty as a good Muslim by abandoning his family and called for new Muslim converts to receive proper guidance.
According to Isma's official website, the NGO's ulama council chairperson Aznan Hasan (right) said Jais' action was an attempt to prevent vice from happening."In this case, Jais' action was 'saddu-al-zarai' (preventing vices)," he said, adding that the move was in accordance with'syarak' (Islamic law).
"In fact, it is the responsibility of (Islamic) religious institutions to ensure incidences that go against 'syarak' do not happen (and in this case) the marriage of a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim," he said.
Aznan conceded that it was better if Jais had conducted its investigation prior to the wedding but said the agency may have only received information at the last minute therefore the action was "correct and necessary".
The bride, Zarina Abdullah Majid, had said she was converted to Islam as a child by her Muslim convert father without the family's knowledge.
However, Zarina insisted that she has been a practising Hindu all her life and has not had any contact with her father, who abandoned the family 20 years ago.
Zarina said she had attempted to reverse the conversion for seven years but to no avail, thus finally deciding to marry a Hindu man regardless of her status.
Aznan also hit out at NGO Sisters in Islam for stating that Zarina's case was a product of unilateral conversion by one parent, insisting that the children belong to the Muslim parent if one partner converts to Islam.
However, he conceded that in Zarina's case, the father had failed his duty as a good Muslim by abandoning his family and called for new Muslim converts to receive proper guidance.
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