raining down deceit, treachery, and ruin. Are they not the causes that sometimes drive a woman to create anxiety and discord in the family,
when she sees that her husband cannot provide her with all she wants of the many demands that require money?
Let woman know, then, that it falls to her to watch over the family's finances, and that of her is required the care that keeps the household's economy from bankruptcy.
The happiness of the family does not rest upon the amount of money it possesses, but upon the amount of love, forbearance, and devotion it possesses. In circumstances by no means rare, we find that the parents—and especially the mother—are the ones who sow the seeds of discord in the home, by whispering to the daughter grounds trifling in themselves, but in their effect like the woodworm that corrupts and scatters. This goes back to that blind tenderness whose harm outweighs its benefit, and whose injury falls upon mother and child together.
Islamic law has permitted divorce in special circumstances. The noble verse says: "Then retain them honorably, or release them with kindness."
Divorce becomes tolerable when the two spouses are unable to remove the causes of enmity, so that family life becomes with them harsher than death. But in the past ages of decline through which the Arab lands passed, we saw that man abused divorce. He did not grasp the spirit of the Law, which intended ease for men; nor did he understand the noble hadith: "The most hateful of permitted things to God is divorce." Rather he took to divorcing his wives for the most trivial of reasons—for he was in a dark condition that had enfeebled his mind and shackled his spirit with the fetters of ignorance, an ignorance that opens no path of life to thought and leaves the heart no room for affection and serenity.
"Bahithat al-Badiya" spoke truly when she said in those days:
Today, a wedding of crushing expense — and tomorrow, a suit is brought for a divorce.
We thank God that this tendency has passed away, fought as it was by thinking men and women at the first dawn of our modern renaissance.
But we have begun to notice today, in some countries of the West, the weak points of modern civilization. Here are some spouses, men and women alike, rushing upon divorce as though the bond of marriage were flimsier than a spider's thread. The incidents of such divorce recur and multiply. Here is a wife bring
ing a divorce suit against her husband because he snores in his sleep.
And here is a man asking to divorce his wife because she wears a certain lipstick that he himself does not want.
And here is an American lady in California coming out at us with a new philosophy: "Permanent marriage is tedious... so we must renew it from time to time by divorce."
Such flippancy, even were it permissible in any other human relation in life, is never permissible in the relation of marriage—which God willed to be sacred and blessed.
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Khan Antoun Bey — Beirut
The East Mediterranean Company
General agency for Syria and Lebanon