HIJAB IN THE LIGHT OF THE QUR’AN AND HADITH

~ 18 ~ face, they go in for divorce to start a new life. This fact has been plainly stated by the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Commenting on the increasing rate of divorce in western society, it says: Actors, authors and other groups that have many contacts with the opposite sex tend to have a high divorce frequency.24 This western report links the high rate of divorce to regular contacts. This is significant in that it proves that the degree of freedom of the sexes in society has a marked bearing on the instability of married life. Where segregation of the sexes in society creates stability in married life, too much freedom creates the kind of instability in married life which ends in divorce. Putting a stop to freedom in society could be an experimental verification of the restricted society being a proper society. Only the placing of restrictions in society can provide a deterrent to divorce. While the lack of restrictions in society weakens the fabric of family life and creates many social evils, constraints, on the other hand,