Lighting conventional lamp will get IUML’s 1st lady MLA in Kerala into bother with clerics’ physique | India Information
3 min learnThiruvananthapuramJun 5, 2026 06:23 PM IST
Legislator Fathima Thahiliya, who grew to become the Indian Union Muslim League’s first lady MLA in Kerala after successful the latest Meeting elections from the Perambra constituency, has confronted criticism from a Muslim clerics’ physique for lighting a nilavilakku (conventional oil lamp) on the inauguration of an area restaurant final week.
After a gathering of its Supreme Consultative Council on Thursday, Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, a clerics’ physique historically recognized for its pro-IUML stance, mentioned that lighting the standard oil lamp is a follow of non-Muslims. If a Muslim performs such an act, relying upon the beliefs held by non-Muslims which are opposite to Islamic teachings, doing so may lead to that individual leaving Islam, the group claimed. Nevertheless, if the individual doesn’t settle for or base the act on such beliefs, however performs it merely as a type of imitation of non-Muslims, then that motion is taken into account forbidden and sinful, Samastha mentioned.
Outstanding Samastha chief Abdul Hameed Faizy Ambalakkadavu mentioned in a Fb put up on Friday that Islamic legal guidelines had been clear, exact and specific. “Islam has strictly prohibited the devoted from following and performing the traditions of different religions,” he mentioned.
Fathima Thahiliya has been generally known as a reformist voice within the IUML, and has fought for larger area for ladies throughout the get together. Within the latest Meeting elections, she defeated CPI(M) Central Committee member and LDF convener T P Ramakrishnan in his Perambra seat.
Her candidature had been opposed by conservative parts, together with a bit of Samastha.
Thahiliya was the founding state president of Haritha — the ladies’s wing of the Muslim College students Federation. Established in 2012, Haritha created a platform for ladies supporters of the IUML on faculty campuses. Underneath her management, Haritha performed a key position in increasing the MSF’s affect throughout campuses.
Thahliya’s political journey took one other flip when Haritha leaders raised allegations of sexual harassment in opposition to senior MSF figures. When the get together management allegedly tried to suppress the problem, she selected to talk out, resulting in her removing as MSF nationwide vice-president and the eventual disbanding of Haritha.
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Because the nilavilakku controversy continued to burn, Fathima mentioned, “I don’t need to touch upon that difficulty anymore.” She had lit the lamp on Might 25 as a part of the opening of a restaurant opened by a gaggle of girls in her constituency.
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