Re: how is divorce law fair in islam
Dear kchughtai, my take on the issue of law is fully explained in the thread, have we understood quran properly? Just to respond to your inquiry. To form laws is duty of muslim shooraa not of any individual so called mufti or mullah. It is up to ummah as a whole to form its own laws as per guidelines or limits set by the quran according to its own needs.
The verses in the quran taken as family laws have nothing to do with family laws they are related to explanation of what constitution is and what its structures, systems, procedures and practices should be.
Mullah claim the quran is constitution of islam but because they misinterpreted the quran and related in their interpretations verses to private and family laws so now they are stuck with it unless they give up their nonsense aqeedahs.
This was explain by iqbal and also by jinnah when he was asked how islamic laws would be derived from the quran. The fight of mullahs with sir syed was all about whether the quran is rational or irrational. Sir syed won that fight against mullahs. Despite opening up few fronts against sir syed they failed to turn back the clock. Before sir syed mullah too quran as book of religious doctrines and rituals. This changed the muslim focus. iqbal followed sir syed. Mullahs fight with iqbal was also based whether islam is a deen or a mazhab. Iqbal also won against mullahs. The only thing that still causing problem is whether so called shariah that was invented in malukiyat time by malukiyati mullahs was really islamic law or not. According to iqbal it was not and the same point of view was held by jinnah and parwez like scholars of islam. Although mullahs nearly lost that fight but then due to creation of pakistan and troubles that were caused by british and india and usa etc did not give jinnah time to deal with issue of islamic law and then soon he died so feudals and their mullahs made a come back and that is what is responsible for situation of paksitan today.
pakistan ki haalat
As for laws for marriage and divorce it is job of pakistani muslims legislature to form laws not of mullahs to dictate laws from their fiqh books of old. This nation must come out of slavery of feudals and mullahs and peer etc. Anyone pushing ummah back in to ignorance and use and abuse is no friend of this ummah.
All muslims are equal and are supposed to be locked in brotherhood then why some take others as their masters or slaves?
For more please keep an eye on the other thread because I like explaining things than get in to purposeless tit for tat arguments. It is understading of the issue that convinces not fighting over the issues to prove each other wrong.
It therefore better for us to use our time to gather information as much as we can and if we have any information we should spend it putting it together sensibly according to some accepted rules of wisdom and develop our critical thinking ability and then see for ourselves what we believe or do, how sensible it actually is.
A person only oneself can convince oneself not others, others can only help with information and how to put it together and how to develop our own criticial faculty.
regards and all the best.