<p class="title">Close on the heels of a fatwa, a Muslim outfit has threatened to stone Nida Khan and Farhat Naqvi to death.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both Nida and Farhat are crusaders against the practice of triple talaq and halala, which requires a woman to sleep with another man to return to her first husband. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The outfit All India Faizan-e-Madina also declared a cash reward of Rs 11,000 to whoever cuts the braids of the two woman and stones them to death.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In its fatwa, Muin Siddique, the president of the outfit, asked the two women to ''leave the country'' within three days lest they should be ready to face serious consequences.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It said that Nida and Farhat had questioned the tenets of Islam and Shariat (Islamic law), which was a ''sin'' and that they must be punished.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another fatwa issued by a prominent cleric Mufti Khursheed Alam barred the people from helping Nida in case she falls ill.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It also said that after Nida's death, her body will not be allowed to be buried in the graveyard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nida, however, remained unfazed and vowed to continue her fight against triple talaq and halala.</p>.<p class="bodytext">''I will not be cowed down by such fatwas... No one has the right to excommunicate any person... My fight against triple talaq and halala will continue,'' she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barely two days back, a fatwa by the prestigious Ala Hazrat Dargah in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly town, about 250 kilometres from Lucknow, had excommunicated Nida from Islam after she filed a case against her husband accusing him of assaulting her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband had given her triple talaq, which had been held illegal by the supreme court.</p>
<p class="title">Close on the heels of a fatwa, a Muslim outfit has threatened to stone Nida Khan and Farhat Naqvi to death.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both Nida and Farhat are crusaders against the practice of triple talaq and halala, which requires a woman to sleep with another man to return to her first husband. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The outfit All India Faizan-e-Madina also declared a cash reward of Rs 11,000 to whoever cuts the braids of the two woman and stones them to death.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In its fatwa, Muin Siddique, the president of the outfit, asked the two women to ''leave the country'' within three days lest they should be ready to face serious consequences.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It said that Nida and Farhat had questioned the tenets of Islam and Shariat (Islamic law), which was a ''sin'' and that they must be punished.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another fatwa issued by a prominent cleric Mufti Khursheed Alam barred the people from helping Nida in case she falls ill.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It also said that after Nida's death, her body will not be allowed to be buried in the graveyard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nida, however, remained unfazed and vowed to continue her fight against triple talaq and halala.</p>.<p class="bodytext">''I will not be cowed down by such fatwas... No one has the right to excommunicate any person... My fight against triple talaq and halala will continue,'' she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barely two days back, a fatwa by the prestigious Ala Hazrat Dargah in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly town, about 250 kilometres from Lucknow, had excommunicated Nida from Islam after she filed a case against her husband accusing him of assaulting her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband had given her triple talaq, which had been held illegal by the supreme court.</p>