Woman Between Islam and Western Society
8. Concerning Divorce
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al-Khattab. The right to pass an executive order
belongs only to an administrator. The common man
has no such right, whatever the circumstances,
because, he does not have the requisite power to
deal with the social consequences of such a ruling.
AFTER DIVORCE
The question that arises immediately after divorce
is of ways and means to meet one’s necessary
expenses. One’s answer is to resort to the Islamic
law of inheritance. If women were to be given their
due share according to Islamic law, there would be
no question of a woman becoming destitute. But,
sad to say, the majority of Muslim women fail to get
their due share of inheritance from their deceased
fathers and husbands as stipulated by Islamic law.
If they could do so, this would be more than
enough to meet such emergencies.
However, Islam has not just left women’s financial
problems to the vagaries of inheritance, because
parents are not invariably in possession of property
which can be divided among their children. Further
arrangements have been made under the
maintenance law, but this has no connection with
