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TROUBLED
RELATIONS AND HARASSMENT |
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However, as in any human relationship, things can
go wrong in a marriage. In such cases, Chapter
4
lays down that: -
"If
a woman fears ill-treatment or desertion on the
part of the husband, it shall be no offense to seek
mutual agreement (to separate); for agreement is
better (than strife). Man is prone to avarice but
if you do what is right.... God will know."
(From
Holy Qur'an 4/128)
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Illusory opiates like "A marriage is made in
heaven, forever, till death does us part" or
that it remains "valid from birth to birth,
for seven births" are not fed to a woman in
Islam (so that she is fooled into meekly accepting
humiliation and maltreatment because the husband
is "as God"). Since times immemorial,
a favorite ploy used by man to harass a wife is
to cast aspersions on her fidelity. Islam does not
permit such injustice. Chapter
24
thunders: -
"The
adulterer and the adulteress shall each be given
100 lashes. Let no pity for them detain you...
Let their punishment be witnessed by a number
of believers. (But) those that defame honorable
women but cannot produce four witnesses shall
be given eighty lashes."
(From
Holy Qur'an 24/2)
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This
is deterrent punishment indeed, for not many can
survive beyond 40-45 lashes. The result is that
while adultery as such is ruthlessly stamped out,
no one dares to level baseless charges of infidelity
against innocent women in a Muslim society
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