CONCERNING DIVORCE

7. Concerning divorce ~ 175 ~ fathers and husbands as stipulated by Islamic law. If they could do so, this would be more than enough to meet such emergencies. However, Islam has not just left women’s financial problems to the vagaries of inheritance, because parents are not invariably in possession of property which can be divided among their children. Further arrangements have been made under the maintenance law, but this has no connection with the law of divorce. The answer to this question must be sought therefore in the Islamic law of maintenance. Here we shall briefly describe some of its aspects: 1. In case the divorced woman is childless or the children are not earning, according to Islamic law, the responsibility for her maintenance falls on her father. That is, her situation will be the same as it was before marriage. To quote from Fath al-Qadir147: The Father is responsible for bearing the expenses of his daughter till her marriage, in the event of her having no money. The father