The Delhi High Court has permitted a 73 year old man, convicted under the NDPS Act in 2010, to travel abroad for a month to Saudi Arabia for performing Hajj or Umrah pilgrimage. “The Hajj pilgrimage holds immense significance in the Islamic faith, representing one of the five pillars of Islam, and is a religious duty for every Muslim,” Justice …
The Kerala High Court has held that a mosque is a place of worship and every Muslim has the right to offer prayer in the mosque and bury their dead bodies in a graveyard on the premise of a mosque and it cannot be obstructed merely because they belong to a different sect. The court made the observation while dismissing …
The Kerala High Court recently ruled that every Muslim has the right to offer prayers in any mosque or bury their dead bodies in a public khabarsthan and that this cannot be obstructed merely because they belong to a different sect.A Division Bench of Justice S.V. The Kerala High Court recently ruled that every Muslim has the right to offer …
Slate is making its essential coronavirus coverage free for all readers. “This is something infectious disease experts talk about pretty much every year,” says Zahra Jamal, associate director of Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance. She says that although the decision to severely limit the hajj this year over COVID-19 concerns is the correct one, gathering in the millions …
