New Delhi, May 15: The Muslim community was today divided over the Centre's statement in the Supreme Court that it would enact a law to govern marriages and divorces among Muslims if the instant triple talaq was outlawed. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind secretary-general Salim Engineer told this newspaper that no one supported the instant triple talaq, but added: "Our apprehension is that in the guise of banning the instant triple talaq, the government wants to take away our right of 'single' talaq." Even previous Congress governments could theoretically have done this as the instant triple talaq, Javed said, is not a Quranic provision. "We have always demanded a codified Muslim personal law just like other communities have laws," Zakia Soman of the Andolan said. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which does not want the courts or the government to interfere in the community's personal laws, went into a huddle planning for tomorrow's hearing in court.

Source: The Telegraph May 15, 2017 21:45 UTC