Council of Islamic Ideology

Functions

1. To recommend laws conforming to Quran and Sunnah to the Parliament and Provincial Assemblies.
2. To advise the Parliament, Government of Pakistan, President of Pakistan, or Governor on any question referred to the Council as to whether a proposed law is or is not repugnant to the Injunctions of Islam.
3. To make recommendations to bring current laws into conformity with Islamic injunctions.
4. To compile guidance for the Parliament and Provincial Assemblies.

First members

• Justice Abu Saleh Muhammad Akram, former judge of Federal Court of Pakistan
• Justice Muhammad Sharif, former Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi, Punjab, Pakistan
• Mohmmad Akram Khan;
• Abdul Hamid Badayuni, Karachi
• Hafiz Kifayat Husain, Lahore
• Dr. Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Head, Islamic Research Institute, Karachi
• Abdul Hashim, Islamic Academy, Dhaka
• Another member from East Pakistan;
• Syed Najmul Hassan Kararvi

  Chairmen

• Justice Abu Saleh Muhammad Akram
• Prof. Allama Allauddin Siddiqui
• Justice Hamoodur Rahman
• Justice Mohammad Afzal Cheema
• Justice Tanzil-ur-Rahman
• Prof. A.W.J. Halepota
• Justice Mohammad Haleem
• Maulana Kausar Niazi
• Iqbal Ahmad Khan
• Dr. S.M. Zaman
• Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud
• Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani
• Dr. Qibla Ayaz

  Current members

• Dr Qibla Ayaz
• Allama Arif Hussain Wahidi
• Allama Syed Iftikhar Hussain Naqvi
• Dr. Abdul Hakeem Akbari
• Dr. Pir Fazeel
• Dr. Qari Abdul Rasheed
• Dr. Syed Muhammad Anwer
• Hafiz Fazal-ur-Rahim
• Justice Muhammad Raza Khan
• Justice Syed Manzoor Hussain Gillani
• Maulana Muhammad Hanif Jallandhry
• Maulana Muhammad Raghib Hussain Naeemi
• Maulana Shafiqur Rehman Pasruri
• Mr. Abul Muzaffar Ghulam Muhammad Sialvi
• Mr. Ahmed Javed
• Mr. Khurshid Ahmad Nadeem
• Mr. Malik Allah Buksh Kalyar
• Pir Rooh-ul-Husnain Mueen
• Professor Dr. Farkhanda Zia
• Sahibzada Sajid-ur-Rehman

  Views

• In 2016, the council rules that DNA testing could not be used as a primary proof in rape cases, but be used as a supplementary proof.
• The Council has also declared human Cloning and sex reassignment surgery as illegal in Islam whereas test tube births were allowed, within certain conditions. It further states that practice of secret recordings as evidence for court cases should not be part of general policy, but it can be done in selected cases.
• Regarding the existing law that requires a "written approval" from the first wife if a man wants to go for the second marriage, the council is of the view that these laws are against Islamic principles and therefore should be abolished. Maulana Sheerani chairman of the council said, "The government should amend the law to make the issue of more than one marriage easy and in accordance with Sharia. We urge the government to formulate Sharia-compliant laws related to nikah, divorce, adulthood and will." In spite of this recommendation from CII, in November 2017, a Lahore lower court ruled against a man who married a second woman without obtaining permission from his first wife. He was sentenced to a six-month jail term and fined Rs2,00,000.
• In a review of marriage laws in March 2014, CII declared them unislamic. According to the council there are two stages of a marriage, Nikah and Rukhsati. While Nikah can be done at any age, Rukhsati can only take place once she reaches the age of puberty and is the responsibility of her guardian.
• The council on 21 January 2015 ruled that Divorcing thrice at once is against the Sunnah of Muhammad, rather it should be given over a period of time, it asked government to make this act punishable. It also ruled that a woman older than 40 can serve as a judge.