No toilet, no Marriage
24/02/2017
There are two types of cleaning – one is external and the other internal. Both are interconnected, we will only be able to achieve the internal cleaning if our body is clean. Humans take birth and die, but once a good work is started, it never dies and stays forever. Change will come only through hard work and everyone should work hard to set an example for the whole country. No toilet, no nikah, Maulvis and muftis in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab have decided not to solemnise marriage in a house where there is no toilet. Maulana Mahmood A Madani, Secretary General of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has said having a toilet has been made a mandatory condition for Muslim marriage in the three states and will be soon be applied in all other states in the country. All religious leaders from all the religion throughout the country should decide that they will not conduct any rituals in houses where there are no toilets. Cleanliness should be our life’s goal. Even the greatest men in history including the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi and various monks and sages teach us to follow sanitation and cleanliness.
Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) also participated in the conference which brings together various faith leaders of major religions of India to put forward their faith-based message for WASH and take a pledge to work for it in their areas of influence. The concept of ‘Sanitation first’ is a step towards ‘Make India’, which is a new slogan along with Make in India which is started by the prime minister. For achieving sanitation, we need political, personal and public will. Today we need to take everyone together without any boundaries and gaps. This, in true sense will be ‘sabka sath sabka vikas’.
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