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The Rights and Duties of Spouses

THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SPOUSES

Book Contents

• Objectives of the Marital Law  
• Preservation of Morals and Chastity
• Love and Compassion
• Marital Ties with NonMuslims
• Compatibility
• Principles of the Law  
• The First Principle
• The Duties of Man
• Injury and Oppression
• Not Being Just to Wives
• Rights of the Husband
• Man’s Powers
• Counselling, Admonition, Punishment
• The Second Principle  
• Conditions for Divorce
• Khula
• Khula Precedents from Early History
• Mandates Concerning Khula
• Basic Errors About Khula
• Powers of the Court in Khula
• The Shari’ah Tribunal
• Fundamental Issues About the Shari’ah  
• The First Condition for the Court
• Independent Thinking is Essential
• Harm Done in India by the Absence of Shari’ah Bench
• The First Step Towards Reform
• Need for a Modern Legal Code
• Fundamental Instructions  
• Corollaries  
• Apostasy of One of the Spouses
• Discretion of Adulthood
• Obligatory Guardianship
• Conditions for the Exercise of Discretion
• Dower
• Living Expenses
• Undue Oppression
• Arbitration
• Option of Dissolution for Serious Disability
• Impotency
• Madness
• The Missing Husband
• Maliki Rulings About Missing Husband
• Return of the Missing Husband
• Invoking Allah’s Curse Three Simultaneous Divorces

• The Epilogue  
• Appendix   
• A Very Important Question
• Answers
• Appendix   
• Divorce and Separation Laws in the West