POLYGAMY
There is without iota of doubt about the fact the strongest argument in favour of a ban on polygamy is that no woman can lick one's lips the idea of permanent rival sharing the bed of her husband.Mariyam jameela”s arguments loses much of its weight in the eyes of an ordinary Muslim woman because she happens to be the second wife of her husband. It is well known that it is the first wife and not the second who usually suffers most in a polygamous family . However polygamy is necessary not only to check morality and the promiscuous propensities of men but to a very great extent to save innocent women from being thrown to the vultures.a husband who has decided to marry another woman will do so whatever the law . Those who demand a total ban on polygamy consciously want that whoever want to marry a new wife should turn his first wife out of his house together will all her children, polygamy be banned but divorce too should not e allowed in any case and men should be forced to live with their first wives whatever the circumstances.this is what Christianity prescribed before the advent of modern age . How disastrous that provision proved to be is not secret .
It is matter of shame and regret that the family laws are being mutilated in many Muslim countries so that the Holy Prophet his companions and our greatest divines. who nearly all married more than one wife. Would be considered as “criminals”under contemporary legislation.
The Islamic laws pertaining to divorce have been almost as harshly condemned as polygamy. The permission grated by the shariah for a man to divorce his wife in private is cited as another woman inferior status under Islamic law . “talaq” or repudiation is an unpardonable evil,they insist, because it allows a man to divorce his wife arbitrarily for the most trivial and flimsy reasons. Therefor talaq should be a punishable crime and only that divorce on such drastic ground as adultery or incurable insanity should be recognized as valid by the court . While the shariah provides a decent, honourable and dignified way for an unhappy couple, miserable in each others company to part in each, out modernist reforming insist that men and women of hopelessly incompatible temperaments be compelled by law to remain in wedlock. And because no secular law can compel a man and woman to love each other if they do not , if they can not find gratification together they will be compelled to seek it elsewhere. The only alternative is to persuade the court , through lies and slander. To grant them a divorce and create a public scandal, thus both ending as moral wrecks.because a man who would divorce his wife without good reason would be of bad character, the woman is infinitely better off free to marry again. Yet our modernist reformers strive to enact legislation to compel him to keep her and abuse her more than ever .
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