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This activity must be abandoned completely.”The seminary’s fatwa department took a strong exception to yet another ceremony in which maternal uncle lifts and carries newlywed niece to the ‘doli’.“Relations between a woman and her maternal uncle are very sacred. The bench further said: “Instead, it should be a normal letter or postcard or intimation by phone call. We fully subscribe to seminary’s point of view in which it asks Muslims to stay away from wasting money in weddings. A man cannot lift his fully-grown niece, it is certainly not acceptable in the eyes of Muslim law. Regarding uncle-niece tradition, this is one practice that must be stopped with immediate effect.”The fatwa comes just days after the influential seminary’ had issued a decree against women wearing nail paints..