Thanks for the reply
Brother, ALLAH says in Sura Al-Nissa that man may marry to One, Two, Three and Four women.
Now if you feel the women’s right as wife is being compromised then we need to introduce more law that protects wife’s social well being
First of all this law contradicts the basic ruling that’s why it’s not exercised in Arab countries, because even ALLAH, PROPHETS and the Sahaba didn’t give this right to women and we think we Pakistani Muslim can protect women better after 1441 years ?
Wen a wife will sue her husband and he goes to jail for two years what do u think after getting released from jail will that husband keep the first wife? he will immediately divorce the first one?
Who will take care of wife and children for their livelihood during the jail period? So in fact this will fire back
Arab and other Muslims from other countries wen they listen about permission from first wife they laugh at Pakistan because this ruling is applied no where in the other countries?
We can not change or alter any Islamic law based on region. Ijtehad is done for over all Muslims not for a particular country.
Normally the state listen and put her weight more to the women than the man in family cases, wen first one keep fighting and insulting the husband for little little things then the husband will go for second that’s one of many reasons man go for second marriage despite knowing consequences
In my opinion this law should be revoked
Firstly I want to thank you for your well written comment. I would like to say that I in no way defend this law as being from Islam and Sunnah. But, I do feel that it is a necessary way of preventing the woman from being handicapped in a situation where her husband is getting married in secret. If you were refer to my last comment made to another individual, you will see that I've listed with source that the Islamic ruling is clear that it is Haram to get married in secret without announcing to the community and friends and family.
Secondly, your argument is that a woman should not take her husband to court because of this ordeal because then the husband would have more motive to divorce her, but doesn't that imply that even if a woman is not being given her dowry after being promised, and she goes to court, and court rules in her favor, then the husband will be humiliated and divorce her.
Or if a woman takes her husband to court, because he's not sexually satisfying her because he's too fat, lazy, busy, etc. And the court rules in her favor and tells the husband to get in better physical shape, or find the time to have sexual activities with her. The man will feel humiliated and divorce her.
Btw this was actually done during the time of the Prophet PBUH. A woman came to him and said she wanted to divorce her husband because he couldn't satisfy her sexual needs. And He PBUH ruled in her favor.
So your argument of that she shouldn't go to the court for any reason because then he'll just be more motivated to divorce her is invalid.
Another thing I'd like to point out is that you should not use Arab countries as a standard for Islamic lifestyle. I Don't think you've been to many Arab countries or have seen there culture and societies. The only Arab countries that are more or equally conservative as Pakistan are Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Mauritania, and Iraq.
I've been to Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, UAE, Jordan, Tunisia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Libya, Kuwait, and pre civil war Syria. And most of these countries are extremely liberal. Arab doesn't mean Muslim. And Arabs are not the benchmark on how to be the best Muslim. Morocco is known in the Arab world for it's women and Arab men go there to have fun with Moroccan women.
So let's stop putting Arabs on a pedestal and see them as a benchmark of Islamic standards.
