Ahmedabad: A statement recorded before the death of a girl who allegedly committed suicide due to dowry in India sparked outrage and protests on social media.
As per the details, 23 days ago, a 23-year-old girl named Ayesha Bano Makrani recorded her video statement on the Sabarmati river banks in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, which later went viral all over social media. In the video, Ayesha Bano Makrani says that she came to the river intending to commit suicide and end her life.
Ayesha also said that she had no complaints from her parents, and today she is also freeing her husband. She said he [her husband] had good parents and friends, but he and his family were greedy, making life difficult for him.
After that Later, the recording of Ayesha’s last phone conversation with her parents before committing suicide also went viral on social media. In this audio recording, Ayesha’s parents stop her from taking this drastic step. However, she was continuously crying and saying she cannot fight anymore.
In the conversation on call, Ayesha admits telling her parents that she called her husband, Arif and informed him of her suicidal thoughts.
According to the case details, in July 2018, Ayesha married Arif from Jalore, Rajasthan. However, she returned to her parents’ house in Ahmedabad in March 2019 due to domestic violence.
According to her father, Liaqat Ali Makrani, a few months after her marriage in 2018, the son-in-law and his family started demanding for dowry money. In December of the same year, Ayesha was sent to Makkah.
Liaqat Ali says that he made peace with his daughter to send her father-in-law back, but then she was sent back to Makkah a few months later. Later, in January 2020, her son-in-law took her daughter back with the dowry of Rs. 250,000, where she ended his life on Thursday.
After the video made before Ayesha’s suicide came to light, demands are being made worldwide, including India, for her to be given justice. A discussion has started on the social tragedies arising out of dowry. She has also filed a case against her husband Arif Khan for inciting suicide.
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WHY ALL THE LEARNED ISLAMIC SCHOLARS (IMAMS, SHEIKHS, QAZI ETC..) HAVE KEPT THEIR MOUTHES SHUT ON THE MATTER OF DOWRY??
IS IT NOT “HARAM”? AS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING WHEREBY INNOCENT GIRLS ARE FORCED TO TAKE THE PATH WHICH HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS PROHIBITED IN ISLAM TOO??
THOSE WHO FORCE GIRLS TO REACH SUCH DECISIONS SHOULD BE STONED!!!
When Dowry from the Bride has been Banned in Islam, why then this draconic practice prevailing for ages ?
What are the so called learned Ulema doing ? They solemnize many such Nik’ahs to fill their pockets with the money given to them by both the bride and the groom.
Don’t they have the courage to demand what has been agreed upon by both sides and if they find out that there is even an iota of dowry in any form from the bride, then, to annul such Nik’ahs or walk away from that Haram event ?
Even, the families of the bride are responsible for encouraging this evil, because, they want to boast to their relatives and friends, that they have got a rich and affluent or a professional Engineer or Doctor and such sons in law. And are willing to offer a price for such an alliance.
Unless everyone plays his part in eradicating this evil, it will continue to thrive, and many many more brides will continue to suffer or get divorced or commit suicide, especially during the current times of commodity based life.
And Allah Will Continue to Send Down his Museebah in one form or another for not adhering to the Laws of Nik’ah.
And this case you have cited is yet another example of the consequences of this evil practice.