Now,a fatwa against birthday celebration!

The Darul Uloom Deoband has in recent days issued edicts declaring that working in banks and opting for an insurance policy was against the tenets of Islam,sparking a debate. The seminary had also decreed that it was illegal according to the Sharia or Islamic law for a woman to work and for a family to accept a woman’s earnings.

Leading Islamic body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s spokesman Abdul Hameed Nomani had maintained that fatwas should not be generalised and should be seen in the context in which they have been issued.

“People must read between the lines and not generalise the fatwas,” Nomani had said.