Marital Discord Resolution in AbdulHamid AbuSulayman’s Viewpoint: A Maqāṣidic Analysis
حل الشقاق الزوجي في نظر عبد الحميد أبو سليمان: تحليل مقاصدي
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https://doi.org/10.31436/ijfus.v8i1.336Keywords:
AbuSulayman, Marital Discord, Maqāṣid al-Sharīʽah, Domestic Violence, ResolutionsAbstract
The research aims to illustrate the viewpoints of AbdulHamid AbuSulayman on marital discord’s resolution, which he corresponded in one of his pivotal books entitled “Marital Discord: Recapturing Human Dignity through the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law”. He profoundly noticed a long lasting and historical debate among scholars of Islam regarding the chastisement of a wife and its intensity whether a mark of beating could be seen on her body, or a slight beating with a light stuff like a siwāk (toothbrush) could be enough to chastise. AbuSulayman entirely disagreed with such perception of beating and claimed that where the foundation of a family in Islam is based on affection, compassion, cooperation, and benevolence, how coercion, repression, or abuse should have the space there? He also argued that how an adult person can beat another adult while each spouse has the right to leave the family and terminate the marital bond when it becomes detrimental? Conversely, scholars like Ibn Abi Hatim, Ibn Jarir and other classical scholars of four madhāhib endorsed the husband’s role to discipline his wife by slight beating. Modern scholars like Muḥammad ʽAbduh, Rashīd Riḍā, Sayyid Quṭb and Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī also opined the same. To resolve disputes between spouses, AbuSulayman proposed some steps that could be taken by a husband to normalize the relationship avoiding any chastisement. The study followed a qualitative methodology, where the researchers extensively studied the aforementioned book and other related sources and analysed the author’s viewpoints and that of other scholars from Maqāṣid al-Sharīʽah perspective.
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