ref.2:226

Sectarian scholars who ignored the Quran and upheld volumes of books of hadith and sunna, issued laws (sharia) allowing the marriage contract to be voided with several words coming from the husband's mouth. This ease and one-sided divorce created miserable marriages and destroyed many families. Many men, who "divorced" their wives by uttering the magical word talaq unintentionally or in the heat of anger, desperately looked for a solution (fatwa), and found mullahs and religious judges selling fatwas to save their marriage! The class that created the problem in the first place became the benefactor of the solution. See 9:34.

Verse 2:228 establishes equal rights to both genders. By associating and even preferring numerous collections of lies and innovations to the Quran, the followers of hadith and sunna denied Muslim women the right to divorce and turned them into slaves of male despotism. Verse 4:19 clearly recognizes the right of women to divorce.

Divorce is a legal event lasting several months; it is not just an oral declaration of the male spouse. A wife cannot be divorced by announcing, "I divorce you three times." Furthermore, the divorce must be declared by a court, with the participation of both parties and witnesses. In order for three divorces to happen, three marriages must happen. Taking the right of getting married after the first divorce through fabricated sharia law is a great injustice. Sunni scholars tried to mend the consequences of the swift divorce by another fabrication by legalizing one-night adultery, hulla. After the hulla the husband could start the fourth marriage! For the man who somehow changed his mind and did not divorce the one-nighter, some Hanafi scholars made up another law. They claimed that if a man divorced his wife under threat or duress they would be considered divorced. In sum, a patch to solve a self-inflicted problem created another problem. The sectarian divorce law has evolved like a tax code or a bad computer program, each loophole demanding a patch and each patch creating more loopholes or problems. See 33:49.

The living expenses of a divorced women, as a general rule, is expected to be paid by the ex husband (2:241). Besides, the divorced women cannot be evicted from their houses by their husbands (65:1). Also, see 30:21. However, if after the divorce a woman learns that she is pregnant, she is advised to reconsider reconciliation with her former husband (2:228).

The Old Testament recognizes the right of women to divorce (Proverbs 2:17 ; Mark 10:12 ). Also, see Leviticus 21:14 ; Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ; Numbers 30:9 ; Deuteronomy 24:2-4 . Though divorce is prohibited in the New Testament (Matthew 5:32 ; 19:9; Mark 10:2-12 ; Luke 16:18 ), because of its unrealistic idealism, many Christians do not adhere to the prohibition of divorce. According to the New Testament, millions of Christians are committing adultery, since divorced men or women are remarrying again.EDIP.