Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
7. Concerning divorce
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illness; and the income taxes which for many
years he had neglected to pay now fell to me
to pay.
132
132. Bertrand Russell,
Autobiography,
(London,
1978), pp. 563-564.
Such a law had been passed in order to ensure
justice for women who had to resort to divorce. But
when people began to realize that divorce
inevitably led one into financial straits, the marriage
bond began to be dispensed with altogether. Men
and women simply started to live together without
going through the formality of the marriage
ceremony. Now more than fifty percent of the
younger generation prefer to live in an unmarried
state.
It was only natural that a reaction should have set
in against a law which so patently disfavored men
and brought corruption, perversion and all kinds of
misery in its wake. Children — even newborn
babies — were the greatest sufferers.
Now take the situation prevailing in Hindu society,
in which the extreme difficulty of divorce acts as a
