IS Hindu marriage act which applies for Sikhs, Budh, n jains too based on Hindu religion?
Those technicalities I don't really know.
Up until last year Muslim men could legally get an instant divorce (faster than cooking Maggi noodles) now they just have to wait 3 months by pronouncing Talaq once in 3 months instead of just sending an SMS
Firstly, I believe I was the first person on this website to use the phrase "Instant Triple Talaq" and been doing that before the law was passing in the Indian courts forbidding that.
Secondly,
this is what I posted on another thread a few days ago :
Divorce is part of Islamic law and this happens over three months. There is a proper procedure. What is not present in Islam is Instant Triple Talaq by uttering "Talaq" consecutively three times over telephone, SMS, email or in person. Such men who do this are not following Islam. They may pray five times a day but if they do Instant Triple Talaq they are not following Islam.
True Islam gave dignity and rights to women in a culture that did not have them. The West gave divorce rights to women only recently. Islam had this 1400 years ago.
Who says Hindu marriage can't be broken by a court mandated divorce?
Section 13 in The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
13 Divorce.
(1) Any marriage solemnised, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, may, on a petition presented by either the husband or the wife, be dissolved by a decree of divorce on the ground that the other party
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(i) has, after the solemnisation of the marriage, had voluntary sexual intercourse with any person other than his or her spouse; or]
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(ia) has, after the solemnisation of the marriage, treated the petitioner with cruelty; or]
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(ib) has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of not less than two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition; or]
(ii) has ceased to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion; or
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(iii) has been incurably of unsound mind, or has been suffering continuously or intermittently from mental disorder of such a kind and to such an extent that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the respondent.
This law was inspired by Western law which itself was inspired by Islamic marriage law.
That is an old arrangement which mostly is not followed. Even when it did exist the law that such an arrangement should be done only if all the wives could be provided for equally.
zero maintenance obligation upon divorce
That is incorrect.
As said before, an Islamic marriage is a social contract that can be dissolved by a divorce.
The wedding is conducted like a modern court marriage. At a minimum, the wedding procedure will have five people : the bride and groom, two witnesses, a
qazi who is like a local jugde.
One of the main things discussed in the procedure will be the
mahr which is mainly a money amount that is pledged by the groom to be given to the bride in case of a divorce. The
mahr is compulsory. The wife may spend it any way she wants after the divorce. So that answers your point.
compulsive conversion Islam of non-muslim partner
That is disregarded by quite a few people. Did Arbaaz Khan convert Malaika ?? In Karntaka, the Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao is married to the Muslim, Tabu. Did she convert him ??
disregard for legal age of marriage fixed at 18 n marrying off pubescent teen is accepted as legal??
Tell me, do you really think that a person upon reaching the age 18 at the exact second becomes sensible ?? If a person did become sensible this way then we wouldn't have had all kinds of problems in the world - from hunger to war.
Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar became the Mughal emperor at the age of 14. Yes, he would have had older advisers but he would not have been an idiot at 14 and until 18.
Why was the age 18 thing adopted in the first place ?? I believe it was a combination of modern feminism, the modern Christian church and the modern male homosexuality who worked in conjunction to declare as sin any sexual relations between teenage opposite genders or a relation between a teenager of one gender and a non-teenager of another gender. For example, just a few years ago a British female teacher in her late 20s was legally punished for having sexual relations with a teenage boy student in her class. Homosexuality-promoting media agencies like Daily Mail called this female teacher as a pedophile.
Take Rajesh Khanna for instance. He married Dimple Kapadia when she was 16. In today's India, Khanna would have been declared a pedophile.
Take Romeo and Juliet as another example. On Google was this :
Romeo is about 14/15 in the beginning of the book. romeo has been said to be anywhere from 18-23 however, regardless of which it is, he is still quite a bit older then Juliet who is only 13. That's a good question, Romeo is supposedly to be around 18 or 19 years old.
Again, in today's world, Romeo would have been declared a pedophile.
Take a third example. I will quote the
Wikipedia page for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book, Love in the time of cholera :
América Vicuña – The fourteen-year-old girl who towards the end of the novel is sent to live with Florentino; he is her guardian while she is in school. They have a sexual relationship, and after being rejected by Florentino and failing her exams, she kills herself. Her suicide illustrates the selfish nature of Florentino's love for Fermina.
Again, what would a moralistic modern female feminist say about this ??
So, instead of following all this modern moralistic nonsense, let us listen to what Nature says in a more nuanced, calm, educated and sensitive manner.