To women who would want a divorce just because husband takes another wife

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Re: To women who would want a divorce just because husband takes another wife

@PashtunWarrior

In the U.S. the family law is under the states. I live in a state where there is no law for fornication, adultery, cohabitation and does not recognize common law marriage. You can have as many partners as you want. In Islam the religious laws override everything from culture and costumes to laws of other nations. It is true that one must respect the laws of the nation they are in and if they cannot practice their religion they must leave. The ruling in my state is that as long as you have the religious marriage done properly it does not matter. The state simply does not care.

That is fine … but if someone actively gives a divorce but really it is not a divorce - that is not allowed Islamically.

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Islamic law pervades the law of the land where the law of the land is allowing things that Islam forbids. Such as fornication, etc … But where the law of the land requires one legally married wife and Islam requires all wives to be legally married - that is a conflict where there is more than one wife and should a person choose to stay in that country then they should remain legally married to one wife with one relationship. Islam does not allow one wife to be in the eyes of the law a marriage and another to be legally viewed as a girl friend. You can’t call your Islamic wife a girlfriend … that is a lie.

Look say there is a case where a man dies and leaves behind the legal wife and the illegal wife … who will inherit? Islamic constitution has to be kept aloof of our personal desires or ideas of justice - or else we end up making more problems rather than solving them.