WOMEN IN ISLAM

DIVORCE IN ISLAM The munificence of God refers to the vast provision that God has made for his servants in this world. In various ways, God helps such distressed people. For example, when a woman is divorced, it is but natural that the sympathy of all her blood relations should be aroused. As a result, without any pressure being put on them, they are willing to help and look after her. Besides, new willpower is awakened in such a woman, and she sets about exploiting her hidden potentialities, thus solving her problems independently. Furthermore, previous experiences have left her wiser and more careful, and she feels better equipped to enter into another marital relationship with more success. AFTER DIVORCE The question immediately after divorce is of ways and means to meet one’s necessary expenses. One’s answer is to resort to the Islamic law of inheritance. If women were to be given their due share according to Islamic law, there would be no question of a woman becoming destitute. But, sad to say, the majority of Muslim women fail to get their due share of inheritance from their deceased fathers and husbands as stipulated by Islamic law. This would be more than enough to meet such emergencies if they could do so. However, Islam has not just left women’s financial problems to the vagaries of inheritance because parents are not invariably in possession of property that can be divided among their children. Further arrangements have been made under the maintenance law, but this has no