France does not admit either grave chronic disease or lunacy...

France does not admit either grave chronic disease or lunacy as an adequate ground and insists that the healthy spouse must care for the leprous or lunatic partner. Undoubtedly, such longsuffering and loving kindness are highly praiseworthy. While extolling it as a counsel of perfection, Islamic realism prefers to leave the partners free to choose separation or continued care, according to their own conscience.

The West is suffering terribly from the laxity it has allowed in the break-up of marriages and the violently increasing incidence of divorce. These disasters are really reactions to overpressure by the churches, which prohibited and condemned divorce one hundred percent for many centuries, while the secular governments gave recognition to it. For instance, divorce was totally prohibited in France until the French Revolution of October 1789.

In 1804, in response to popular demand, divorce was legalized; but in the following 12 years, it increased so appallingly that the religious bodies brought renewed pressure to bear until in 1816 the law legalizing divorce was rescinded through physical separation of the parties was permitted. However, public pressure built up again so much that in 1884 divorce within certain limits was legalized once more.

Here follow the conditions on which in Western lands divorce for wife and husband was legal until recent times: a criminal act committed by either party which involves the penalty of life imprisonment, exile, loss of civil rights or temporary imprisonment with hard labour. physical violence, mercenary prostitution, and a few other similar criminal acts of one partner against the other.

adultery by either partner – though in such cases the wife has the right of divorce only if the man commits adultery with another woman in the house which belongs to his wife and himself. The following is the road by which a wife’s infidelity was proved: note it well! “The infidelity of a wife must be proved completely in the eyes of the police. The wife or the husband plan to be in different places for however a short time.

They must agree about some third person to be cited as co-respondent and this person must be prepared to undertake this service. And then at the stated hour, the wife must be caught in flagrante delicate with the third party, and the husband must have the police on the spot to catch her and so prove her infidelity.