India's top court has ruled that daughters have equal rights to Hindu family property

[PakFactor]

I am a father to a beautiful daughter and no law would stop me from giving everything i have to her. Few verses of Quran that should make all Muslims proud

“For men there is a share from what their parents and close relatives leave, and for women there is a share from what their parents and close relatives leave, be it little or considerable; a definite share.” Surah Nisa’ 4:7

“Allah charges you in regard with your children: a son’s share is equal to the share of two daughters; if the [children] are [only] daughters and two or more, their share is two thirds of the legacy, and if there is only one daughter, her share is half [of the legacy]; and each of the parents inherit one-sixth of the legacy if the deceased had children, and if the deceased had no children and the parents are the only heirs, the mother inherits one-third; if the deceased had brothers, the mother inherits one-sixth; [all this is] after executing the will and settling the debts of the deceased. You do not know which of your parents and children benefit you the most. This is Allah’s injunction; surely Allah is All-knowing, All-wise.” Surah Nisa’ 4:11

To all who are curious Surah Al Nisa is all about women rights.

Beautiful post, and the most important detail is this:

[all this is] after executing the will and settling the debts of the deceased.

How often we forget this and just forgive the individual, our scholars have done a dis-service by not teaching the proper value of inheritance, and settling one's debts before leaving.

 

[valkyr_96]

nothing to do with religion,
Lot of cultures still have polygamy..

Lot of cultures still deny women equal rights,
Lot of cultures still treat women subservient to men.

Don't get your knickers in a twist, since you are not alone in this disgrace.

Please carry on with your digital nautankipaan.

 

[peagle]

I am going to try to explain it the last time to you and you sound utterly incoherent.

For the record, Hindus have been protesting against state control of temples as long as I can remember from the British days. Against both BJP and Congress. While other religion orgs are not under state control, Hindu temples have like lakhs of acres of land in which politicians can steal. In a secular state, govt shouldn't control religious organizations.

Second, on the state of personal laws, again I am saying the state shouldn't have personal laws for every religion. Should have a common civil law. While it's not the fault of Muslims the state has various personal laws, it was the hardline Hindus in 47', who wanted an personal law for them. But as days went by, Hindu and Christian laws has been modified to such an extent that they are mostly in line with Common civil code. Muslim Personal Laws haven't been touched till recently.

As for the most childish argument, when new laws come in, like for Aadhar law or ID number number of every citizen, there was a conflict btw privacy law and this law and the SC has to decide which law is supreme in what scenarios. This is the job of the Supreme Court. Of course since democracy is sparse in Pakistan you wouldn't know what's been like to have many interesting judgements in democratic countries. I can forgive you for that. That's the same thing happened in this judgement and in the previous TT judgement as well. Individual rights vs religious law was the question. Individual rights was the answer from SC.

What kind of secular democracy an country should follow is upto the country. Not you or France. Do we reserve posts on based on religion? Do we send every law to an religious body looking for its approval before passing every law? That's what Indian secularism is based on. Indian minorities have made it big due to religion shouldn't be an factor governing the masses. The state of Andhra Pradesh is ruled by an Christian and so was his father before him and that's a major state. FYI.

Rest of your post is pure garbage which I would like to ignore. PS I am a Tamil and proud Indian at that.

I already told you I'm done with you, you need to learn how to have an argument, answer the issues on hand, not throw new things into the cauldron.

You don't have to declare anything, but at least have the sense to answer correctly, and not give a stupid irrelevant answer.
Tamilian is an ethnicity, not a religion, you are totally and completely incoherent.

I am not used to listening to parrots, so stop repeating yourself, go and learn something before you attempt to have a grown up discussion.

I pity you.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

But yes, I am in favor of India having a UCC ( Uniform Civil Code ) that should replace the separate religious laws here. The UCC should be based on socialist understanding.

UCC is a dumb idea to start with.

 

[xeuss]

UCC is a dumb idea to start with.

Most of the Hindus that support UCC do it for only one purpose, to cut a "perceived" benefit of Muslims.

Could you explain why you have a differing opinion?

 

[jamahir]

Could you explain why you have a differing opinion?

@SuvarnaTeja