Waqf Board decides to curb late night weddings

The TS Wakf Board will initiate action against qazis who solemnise marriages at function halls after 9 pm after February 1. This is being done to end the nuisance being created for the public at large with late night marriages. 

“Any qazi who solemnises marriages after 9 pm will be issued a notice. Next, the board will not issue him a marriage booklet or marriage certificate,” said board chairman Mohammed Saleem. The board will be holding awareness programmes, urging imams of mosques to educate the community. “The rest of the activities at function halls can continue till midnight,” he said.  

A meeting at Haj House attended by senior police officials, religious scholars and heads of religious schools of thought decided to curb



extravaganza and public inconvenience caused by late night weddings. 

“In the interests of the community and the poor families, we should get rid of such unnecessary practices,” said Mufti Khaleel Ahmed, rector of Jamia Nizamia.

The scholars felt it wasn’t right that marriage ceremonies drag on till 3 am. “Guests are made to wait for dinner. It is no less than an insult to them. Loud music and fireworks cause a lot of inconvenience to persons staying in the vicinity of the function halls,” said Mr Hamed Mohammed Khan, president, Jamaat-e-Islami, Telangana and Odisha. 

The scholars were against pomp and gaiety in marriages. “The money can be used for the welfare of the community,” said Mr Saleem.