A total of 16 couples including one non-Muslim tied the knot in sixth mass wedding ceremony held under the auspices of The Askari Friends Society on Sunday. The Askari Friends Society was making adequate efforts to share the burden of poor and needy families for ensuring timely marriage of their daughters without any discrimination of caste and creed.
Akhtar Majeed Kapur the member of the society while talking to Business Recorder said that Mass wedding ceremony was source to support and reduce the financial burden of poor and needy families. It was our religious and moral obligation that we should care and share the problems especially the financial constrain confronted by the poor segment of the society which are hindering timely marriages of their daughters adding that dowry amounting Rs 1.75 lakh had also been provided to each couple.
The emerging tendency of holding mass wedding ceremonies is a healthy omen and proved a great solace to the destitute, who can not afford timely marriage their daughter due to poverty and heavy demands of dowry. The basic concept of holding this mass wedding ceremony was to extend support to the weak segment of the society to ensure timely marriages of their daughter in a respectable way and an attempt to save their skin from heavy demands of dowry. The holding of mass wedding ceremony in the era of materialism is not less than a miracle for weak segment of the society.
It was shocking that most of the financially suppressed people are unable to marry their daughters well in time because of heavy demands of dowry as a result of which thousands marriageable girls are 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 to provide an opportunity to wealthy people and philanthropists to share the burden of poor segment of the society for ensuring timely marriages of their daughters.
It is heartening to note that Askari Friends Society Sialkot wowed to continue the process of mass wedding ceremony to facilitate poor segment of the society.