A total of 20 couples tied the knot in the fourth mass wedding ceremony held under the auspices of Askari Friends Society on Sunday. The emerging tendency of holding mass wedding ceremonies is healthy omen and proved a great solace for the poor segment of society, who can not afford timely marriage of their daughter due to poverty and heavy demands of dowry.
Ashraf Kamal Butta, while expressing his views, said that it was an attempt to share financially the suppressed people for ensuring timely marriages of their daughters and to save their skin from heavy demands of dowry, adding that tendency of the mass wedding ceremony had become a blessing to share the burden of poor segment of the society in this materialist era.
He said it was shocking that most of the financially suppressed people were unable to marry their daughters well in time because of heavy demands of dowry as a result thousands of marriageable girls were confronting with this social problem. Under the prevailing situation the idea of mass wedding had become a major source for fulfilling the religious, social and moral responsibilities and provide an opportunity to wealthy people and philanthropists to share burden of the poor segment of the society for ensuring timely marriages of their daughters, he said.
Co-ordinator of Askari Friends Society Akhtar Majeed Kapur said that at this critical juncture collective efforts were direly needed to cope with social problems, especially the dowry issue, and to make sure the timely marriages belonging to the financially suppressed people of the society.
It is heartening to note that the Askari Friends Society of Sialkot wowed to continue the process of mass wedding ceremony to facilitate the poor section of the society, he said.
Co-ordinator Akhtar Majeed Kapur said that each bride received a dowry 30 items, including furniture and utensils and gifts amounting to Rs1,50,000, adding that Askari friends, philanthropists and well-off people generously donated in this noble cause that ensure the mass wedding ceremony.
Akhtar said that it was "our religious and moral obligation that we should care and share the problems, especially the financial constraint confronted by the poor people. The holding of mass wedding ceremony in the era of materialism had become very costly for the poor is not less than a miracle, he added. Expressing their views, Haji Aslam, Mian Altaf Rubani and Nasir Burar said it was our religious duty to look after the needs and requirements of the poor and needy and by virtue of collective efforts of the Askari Friends Society 15 daughters of destitute got married in the presence of a large crowd.
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