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Matters of faith are personal, rules SHC
The Newspaper’s Staff Reporter
December 19, 2022
KARACHI: Dismissing a petition seeking mandatory teaching of Holy Quran and its translation in Urdu in all schools and colleges, the Sindh High Court has observed that matters of faith are personal and even otherwise best left to the individual.
A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh and Justice Yousuf Ali Sayeed dismissed the petition in limine for being misconceived.
A lawyer along with another petitioned the SHC seeking directives for provincial authorities to amend the curriculum of primary, secondary and higher secondary education and to make the teaching of Holy Quran in Arabic along with its translation in Urdu mandatory in all schools and colleges.
The bench in its order said that petitioners made no argument as to how the present curriculum offended any law or fundamental right but merely asserted that acquiring knowledge of the sacred text was the obligation of every Muslim and such teaching in educational institutions would strengthen the moral fabric of society.
