I have read that MPL (Muslim Personal Law) has become very problematic in India.

Answer

MPL in India has been mangled and mutilated into a hotch potch of kufr by the Hindu judges of the secular courts. The MMB clique here wants the same to happen in South Africa. Although the MPL proposal in India was not as corrupt as the MPL in South Africa, those Ulama of India who had supported MPL were extremely short-sighted to expect that the Hindu atheists and idolaters of the Indian secular courts would honour the Muslim Personal Law which had been legislated. The Hindu judges are interpreting and mutilating the laws of the Shariah to render them subservient to the secular constitution. There are some flabby protests, but to no avail. The MMB clique here in South Africa has mangled and mutilated the Shariah with their haraam, kufr MMB (Muslim Marriages Bill) even before it has been legislated. Despite professing to be Muslims, they are doing the kufr work of the Hindu judges of India. Some extremely short-sighted molvis who are supporting MMB are aiding the process of destroying the Shariah. Neither do they understand what MMB entails nor do they have a valid understanding of the Shariah.

The vital and indispensable links in the Chain of the Shariah leading up to Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) are the Aimmah-e-Mujtahideen such as Imaam Abu Hanifah (Rahmatullah alayh), Imaam Maalik (Rahmatullah alayh) and many other Mujtahid Imaams of the Salafus Saaliheen era of the first and second centuries of Islam. The Aimmah Mujtahideen had structured the edifice of the Shariah on the basis of the Qur'aan and Ahaadith which reached them authentically from the Sahaabah. Numerous of the Taabieen Ulama were among the Aimmah Mujtahideen. Minus the Aimmah Mujtahideen, there is no Islam. These Mujtahid Imaams are a special group of the greatest Ulama created by Allah Ta'ala for the specific task of formulating and codifying the Shariah. Hence, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) ordered his Sahaabah to deliver to posterity every Hadith. He added that some of those to whom the Ahaadith would be delivered will understand it more than those who had delivered it. This was a reference to the Aimmah Mujtahideen. Numerous of them were the direct Students of the Sahaabah.

Nothing of Islam can be separated from the Aimmah Mujtahideen. Grievous errors are nowadays perpetrated by mediocre molvis who ludicrously seek to elevate themselves to the pedestal occupied by the illustrious Mujtahideen of the early eras of Islam. The miscreant molvis, due to half-baked or quarter baked knowledge, awed by the methodology of the deviate Salafis of our time, commit the fatal blunder of digging in the Kutub of Ahaadith. They extract a Hadith, subject it to their opinion to formulate masaa -il to appease the Salafi ideology.

Formulating masaa-il on the basis of the Hadith and Qur'aan was the function of only the Aimmah-e- Mujtahideen. That methodology has ended during the era of Khairul Quroon. The corrupt methodology of the Salafis is haraam, and may not be emulated. Masaa-il decided and finalized by the Aimmah Mujtahideen are not open for interpretation/reinterpretation and mutilation. Islam was finalized and perfected during the very time of Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) as the Qur'aan confirms. Re-interpretation is explicit KUFR.