Dowry

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, strengthen family bonds, which greatly benefits the human race in different ways. Notes 1. Islam and the Modern Age, Urdu Edition (New Delhi), January, 1973. 2. Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Hijab al-Mar’ah al-Muslimah fil Kitab was-Sunnah (1914), p. 31. 3. Ibid., p. 7 4. Ibid., p. 13 5. Qur’an, 24:31. 6. Qur’an, 33:59. 7. Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, op. cit., p. 31. 8. Qur’an, 33:33. 9. Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, op. cit., p. 31. 10. Ibid., p. 56. 11. Ibid., p. 63. 12. Ibid., p. 65. 13. Ibid., p. 67. 14. Ibid., p. 77. 15. Ibid., p. 78. 16. Qur’an, 57:16. 17. Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Hijab al-Mar’ah al-Muslimah fil Kitab was-Sunnah (1914), p. 80. 18. Ibid., p. 80. 19. Ibid., p. 110. 20. Qur’an, 24:31. 21. Abu Dawud, Sunan, Kitab al-Libas, 4/62. 22. Muhammad ‘Ali as-Subuni, Rawai‘ al-Bayan, (Beirut, 1980), 2/155. 23. At-Tafsir al-‘Uthmani, with notes by Shaikh Mahmud ul-Hasan (Bijnor, 1950), p. 458. 24. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1984), vol. 7, p.163.