Re: Women’s Second Marriage!
Its the mind set of the Hindu society of the sub continent. Hinduism does not encourage remarriage of women and we are aware of the trend where wife used to burn when her husband died. Living here for centuries has clouded our mind and even being a Muslim we have adopted that mentality. Divorced women are looked down upon by Hindu society not in Islam but we are more concerned with the tradition of the land than what our religion teaches.
Hinduism also encourages monogamy, and this trend has also been picked up by our society. Second marriage by a man becomes such a scandalous and serious issue that most men know that they will have only one marriage in their lifetime. With one chance obviously the choice will be a virgin/unmarried woman and divorced women will be overlooked.
Before accusing me of any evil please note that at anytime, the number of women in society are greater than number of men, and with divorce issue, there will be more women waiting for marriage or remarriage. When second marriage of man becomes impossible then divorced women will have less chance of remarrying when virgin/unmarried women are present in large numbers.
Middle east is relatively better where despite divorce women can remarry and men also have no issue with it. But it must also be noted that it is quite common in middle east countries for a man to have more than one wife.
You are right to some extent but this has been taken so wrong!! Dont you think making a man sure of ‘his wife cant remarry if you leave her’ can make a woman’s life hell!