ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) at the end of its two-day session on Tuesday ruled that there is no minimum age of marriage according to Islam, adding that Pakistani laws prohibiting marriage of underage children are un-Islamic.
However, the council said, the Rukhsati (consummation of marriage) is only allowed in the case that both husband and wife have reached puberty.
On Monday, the CII chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani told reporters after the meeting of the council in Islamabad that the laws regarding second marriage of a man in the presence of first wife were against religious principles.
“Sharia allows men to have more than one wife and we demanded that the government should amend the law,” Maulana Sheerani said.
The CII chairman said that the government should amend the law to make the issue of more than one marriage easy and in accordance with Sharia.
“We urge the government to formulate Sharia-compliant laws related to nikah, divorce, adulthood and ‘will’,” Maulana Sheerani said.
