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**nemoforone** · 06-26-2011, 08:30 AM

Is the stigma associated with divorce amongst Asians a cultural thing then? I thought it was because divorce is seen as the most detested permissible act. Surprised to hear it was done by such great sahabas.

I too share the impression it's a cultural thing.

Some time ago a brother related me about some kind of stats calculated about the time of an Islamic dinasty of old (Umayyads?) showing very high rates of divorce amongs Muslims.

Nowadays I think that in reaction to extremely disgregative models coming from the "west" we take refuge in the other extreme of the christian-of-old (in Europe/Americas) or cultural indian (in the subcontinent) model of the stable monogamous family remaing together from marriage to death.

It seems to me that things were just "in the middle" between these two extremes.

This takes us to the other problem of reacting to an alien model by taking refuge in its absolute opposite, even though also its opposite is as well alien as the former; we could see this in many issues.

We really need a Mujaddid nowadays, purifying Muslims of all the filth taken from kufr ideologies and models, and also from the filth of some of its specular anti-filth...

06-26-2011, 08:30 AM	#8
nemoforone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 401 Senior Member	Is the stigma associated with divorce amongst Asians a cultural thing then? I thought it was because divorce is seen as the most detested permissible act. Surprised to hear it was done by such great sahabas. I too share the impression it's a cultural thing. Some time ago a brother related me about some kind of stats calculated about the time of an Islamic dinasty of old (Umayyads?) showing very high rates of divorce amongs Muslims. Nowadays I think that in reaction to extremely disgregative models coming from the "west" we take refuge in the other extreme of the christian-of-old (in Europe/Americas) or cultural indian (in the subcontinent) model of the stable monogamous family remaing together from marriage to death. It seems to me that things were just "in the middle" between these two extremes. This takes us to the other problem of reacting to an alien model by taking refuge in its absolute opposite, even though also its opposite is as well alien as the former; we could see this in many issues. We really need a Mujaddid nowadays, purifying Muslims of all the filth taken from kufr ideologies and models, and also from the filth of some of its specular anti-filth...
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