- “Kuwait has issued a new fatwa (a ruling from the point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority) that will prohibit companies and banks from marketing their products in mosques.”
- “The Madhya Pradesh High Court [India] has delivered a complex judgment on inter-faith marriage. In a case involving a Hindu woman and a Muslim man, the court ruled that their marriage wouldn’t be considered valid under Islamic law, even if they registered under the Special Marriage Act (SMA) of 1954.”
- “The Allahabad High Court‘s Lucknow bench [India] has ruled that married Muslim individuals cannot claim rights to a live-in relationship as ‘Islamic tenets do not permit’ such a relationship while the spouse is still alive. The court said the position, however, might differ if the ‘two people were unmarried and the parties being majors chose to lead their lives in a way of their own.'”