Abid Rasool Khan backs Salma Ansari’s assertion on Triple Talaq

Voicing his support for Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari’s wife Salma Ansari’s assertion on triple talaq, Abid Rasool Khan, the chairman of Minorities Commission, Andhra Pradesh, today said that one must study Quran and understand it in the proper perspective.

Stating that there is nothing wrong in what she has said, Khan said, “It is requirement of the day that we should study Quran, which is a complete way of life for human being specially for Muslims and Quran very clearly with examples and with instances show us how we should conduct ourselves in the day to day affairs, family affairs, how we conduct with neighbours, how we conduct with brothers of other community. How I be a good citizen of this country. All these are clearly explained.”

“And her being an iconic figure asking the Muslim women to study Quran with the translation who cannot understand Arabic is welcome. And I strongly support her statement and I also retaliate that we should study Quran in Hadis in the proper perspective understand it and if we have any doubts (then) we must talk to the elders of the community, clarify those doubts and practice and propagate it in our daily lives,” he added.

Talking to the media on the sidelines of a function in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, yesterday, Salma Ansari said that uttering ‘talaq’ thrice does not amount to divorce and asked the Muslim women to read the Quran thoroughly instead of relying on clerics.