Live-in OK? What Next? Incest? India Needs Morality-Based Statute to Survive as a Civilization

Live-in OK? What Next? Incest? India Needs Morality-Based Statute to Survive as a Civilization

Written by

DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI

Published on

August 13, 2022

DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI voices his concern about the judgements of our courts which are legalising immoral sex and undermining the time-honoured moral values.

“The Supreme Court has given liberty to live-in relationships and it has held that pre-marital sex is not an offence,” so observed Mr. Justice Kailash Gambhir on July 13.

And on the basis of the Apex Court’s standpoint, the Delhi High Court judge suggested to Delhi University that the pregnancies of single women should also be treated sympathetically by educational institutions.

The truth is that after the significant but unfortunate observation of the Supreme Court, which is the highest palladium of justice in India, there is no room left for deviation from the guideline.

THE POINT

The point is: Is the guideline the last word, too sacrosanct to be commented upon or disputed with? The Muslims of India have their own views on the subject, which they feel, are in consonance with those of the countrymen at large.

Mr Justice Gambhir, while further strengthening his argument, said: “Motherhood is not a medical condition but a promise. We all kowtow to our mothers to whom we owe our existence, and to punish a woman for becoming a mother is mother of all ironies. By not granting these students relaxation will be making motherhood a crime, which no civilized democracy in the history of mankind has ever done or will ever do. We cannot make them pay the price for the glory that is motherhood.”

EMPHATIC SUBMISSION

May we aver: To Islam or Muslims, motherhood is neither a crime nor do we ask the revered mothers to pay the price for the glory that is motherhood. Our simple but emphatic submission is motherhood should be legitimate in the eyes of morality and law.

If the current legal trend of laxity towards sexual crimes continues, we are afraid, India would sooner or later turn into an America where marriage as an institution has died or is fast dying, and live-ins are ruling the roost, producing children lacking in legitimacy. Today the majority of the population of America consists of illegitimate personages.

Consider the following in the light of their lordships’ observations: There are a whopping 3,88,751 registered prostitutes (officially called sex workers) in Bharat. According to NACO, their number comes at 12.63 lakh. Delhi tops this list with 37,900. This embarrassing information has been dished out by the government in an RTI reply. According to the updated report, Andhra has 1,05,985; Karnataka 79,120; Tamil Nadu 71,529; Maharashtra 56,929 and West Bengal 43,211. Add to it the fact that today India has 6,88,751 HIV patients.

PROSTITUTES AND PATIENTS

It has to be noted that the said figure of prostitutes and patients is official which in simple language means too watered down. To prove the point, we refer to urban prostitution in cities where men and women rub shoulders in almost each and every walk of life.

What goes without saying is in metros like Mumbai there exist a good number of “male prostitutes” who cater to the needs of higher society.

It would be naïve to think that by effectively outlawing promiscuity or deviant sex, the national problem would be solved.

By the way, is promiscuity or premarital sex and deviant sex a national problem? The point comes under sharper focus after paving the ground legally for sodomy, as Article 377 has already been declared, for all practical purposes, irrelevant by the Delhi High Court. But to Indian Muslims immoral sex is illegal and they are highly disturbed at the lenient view taken by the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court.

UNENDING SILENCE

As Rome was not built in a day, this day when the apex court and the subordinate courts look favourably at immoral sex, has not come in a day. For decades, those who could sternly say NO have kept quiet. It is their unending silence which has brought this day when immoral sex is being sought legally to be described as legitimate.

Now, inspired by the Supreme Court observation, young educated boys and girls in cosmopolitan cities, who are going to don the mettle of leadership of future Bharat, have been telling the plural nation through talk shows on TV channels that they feel there is nothing wrong in premarital sex and they stand for it.

It is obvious that tomorrow another justice, like Mr Justice Gambhir, would observe: “Society today is changing at a rapid pace and we must be in tune with its realities.”

MOVING GOALPOST

And if this is how we continue to move the goalpost, a time might soon come in future when highly abominable crimes like incest and bestiality would find legal cover. And those of you who think it is impossible, please travel just years back in time and ask yourselves: “Was it not beyond imagination back then to provide social and legal acceptance to a one night stand and its result?”

Abnormal sex is not in India’s grain. That is why homosexuality continues to be seen as an aberration. If our judicial system keeps pace with time (read the West) this way, it might give in to the demands of gay rightists. And then there is a sick section in society which does not have any regard for morality and loves too much to act like animals.

Another point that should not be missed is:  Promiscuity and perversion are norms in the animal kingdom. Therefore, they cannot be legitimised for humans. Humankind is God’s best creation hence the institution of marriage befits its dignity. If some humans still insist on going for promiscuity, they would be well in tune with their time if they walk on all fours.

YOUTH CRAVING

The younger generations’ round-the-clock craving for illegitimate sex is the logical corollary of the apex court’s laissez faire towards the important subject.

To think that the rot can be contained by plugging the loopholes in the law amounts to childish thinking. Before ultimately thinking in terms of reorienting the entire Statute on moral grounds, we feel widening the gamut of the basic structure by adding Morality also into what is considered the Basic Structure can do for a while.

The Muslim leadership envisions a situation in the country in which nothing immoral or evil goes without appropriate censure.

This is not a communal approach that may be rejected simply because it has come from Muslim quarters. Thinking sections of all strata of life, all communities and sub-communities hate sleaze, filth and dirt. Our conviction is that the Indian society loves cleanliness and freedom from all varieties of taint. Muslims envision a society free from muck.

Let the Muslim leaders and opinion makers approach the guardians of Indian society, the conscience keepers of other communities, and together start a moral jihad against all sorts of immoral acts which lead to bestiality.