The Quran permits divorce partly because of some countenance to the customs and partly to enable men get rid of an odious union.
Prophet Mohammad restrained the power of divorce and gave to the women the right to obtain separation on reasonable grounds. The Prophet is reported to have said,” if a women be prejudiced by a marriage, let it be broken off.”
In the year 1939 with the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, the attempt to improve the position of married women by recognizing certain new grounds of divorce was made as per which a Muslim woman could seek divorce in the court. Islamic law then allowed a man to divorce his wife at will but a wife did not have the right either to give divorce or seek one. The only way out for them was
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They seem to be under the false impression that a married woman is a mere shadow of her spouse- however abusive and violent he may be.
Although some respect them for having courageously come out of the marriage in a society like ours with all its taboo and archaic customs and practices, more people need to realize that divorce is no longer an antithesis of marriage but instead a step into the right direction to dissolve an unfulfilling marriage.
Although national statistics don’t exist on divorce in India, but some local records do show an escalation. Yet, some experts claim that the divorce rate here continues to be artificially low, because of how prejudiced the system is against women, who can be left financially destitute even if their spouse is well-off.
Most of the apprehensions about getting out of an abusive relationship emanate from the social and financial pressures that divorced women are left to face. The courts can take several years to settle a case and often women are not in a position to afford the several rounds of litigation involved. Even if a woman does go to the court, in most cases it is an “uneven fight” between a man and a