The Madrassa Jamiatul Mominath in Moghalpura, is the Hydersabad’s first and only Madarasa that trains women to become muftias.
There are over a dozen of students who are being instructed in the Darul Ifta, or fatwa department in this class. Class room has books on Hadith (traditions of the Prophet), commentaries on the Quran in it and tomes on fatwas line on the walls.
Fatwa is an opinion that Muslims seek on a range of subjects, including marriage, menstruation, divorce, adoption, property issues, and rituals like namaz and roza. Countless madrassas in the country like Uttar Pradesh’s Darul Uloom Deoband, run training courses, but most of them are for men.
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“There are several questions that women hesitate to ask muftis. We thought women would be more comfortable discussing their issues with muftias. That’s why we introduced this one-year course 12 years ago,” said Hafiz Mastan Ali, Jamiatul Mominath’s founder.
The Madarasa set up in 1991 has 2,500 students today , of whom 400 are hostellers. The muftia course began with only five girls last year, but now it has 15. So far, the madrassa has produced 318 muftias.
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