Woman’s conversion to Islam at age four a nullity from the start, Federal Court heard

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court three-member bench on Tuesday (Jan 16) heard the appeal brought by a 37-year-old woman who claimed that her conversion to Islam in 1991 at the age of four by reason of her mother’s conversion to Islam was a nullity from the start.

Her lawyer Datuk Malik Imtiaz Sarwar asserted that the woman’s conversion to Islam contravened Section 147 of the Selangor Administration of Muslim Law Enactment 1952, the relevant law in force at that material time, which prohibited the conversion of children to Islam.