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Islam and Divorce 1 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Islam and Divorce 1 2023-02-23 410 Views Islamic Rulings , Divorce The first point this chapter must make is that divorce is contrary to the laws of nature. The annulling of the marriage bond and the separation of those who should be life partners is a denial of the true nature of man as created and at his best.

Any society, in which divorces become numerous, with the consequent break-up of families, evidences its deviation from nature and its requirements.

Psychologists, jurists and sociologists, concerned by the effects of divorce on the moral and juridical personality of those involved, have gone deep into the subject and given it as their considered verdict that the ejection of a man and wife, let alone the children, from the warmth of home-life into the cold unwelcome of any substitute establishment they may find, deals a mortal blow to their spirits and exposes their children to the onset of moral ailments and psychic traumas against which family life had immunized and protected them.

These scientists further hold, almost to a man, that for these reasons divorce should be rendered practically impossible by severe sanctions, except in a few cases where some cause, generally from outside, like the onslaught of insanity or criminality, makes an exception to the rule. But what should be done in cases of irreparable breakdown of relationships? Must the partners stay in the hell they have made? Or, may a way-out be found for them? Christianity says blankly.

“No divorce!” However, Islam more realistically faces the consequences of irreparable breakdown as a fact and provides a way-out. Every possible safeguard is laid down in the statute book to prevent such a way-out by divorce being abused. But, it is clear that the bankruptcy of the relationship is only worsened by forcing the partners to stick together; and their misery is only increased.

Hence divorce, though stigmatized as ” the most loathsome of states in the eyes of the Lord” is made possible when it is the better of two bad roads. It may even be that the very separation removes the cause of the irritation between man and wife, while the lapse of time in absence softens the hearts and recalls the good points which had been lost under the pains of discord; so that the couple seek reunion, and in some cases actually start the same partnership up again in pardon and joy.