Syeda Hamed a member of planning commision and an expert on Islam plays the role of Qazi at a wedding in Lucknow. This is the first occasion since a long time when a women Qazi gets the Nikah solemnised. The response of local leaders and clerics has been positive and the leading cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad encouraged the idea saying that it is perfectly fine for a women to be a Qazi if she posses the same knowledge as her male counterpart. Another interesting facet is that the Qazi is a Shia whereas the couple are Sunni, this is also not unacceptable as the Muslims always have the choice of switching the School of thought.

Women used to play the role of Mufti, Qazi and General at the time of Prophet Muhammed but in recent times their has been a decline of some sort in their position.