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[quote]>>Neither is polygyny time specific nor was slavery time specific. Both these activities still exist, and to think that the laws regarding them are no longer applicable is living in denial of what is happening in the world.

So do you allow for the scope of having sex with slaves?

>>However you failed to comment on the scenario I described where the wife is not letting her husband a divorce while not living with him any more and at the same time not letting him marry someone else. In this case the man is clearly the victim.

I agree about the man being the victim. But I did mention that this relates to divorce laws. If a man wishes to part then he has all right to divorce the woman. Same would hold if a woman would wish to part.

>>Also hoping that extra-marital affairs will not be a more serious problem than before after your ruling is passed, is wishful thinking.

I think I did mention this, when I wrote that despite the Shariah code of conduct and despite the law of 'permission of the first wife' as in Pakistan, men still commit transgressions. Therefore we need laws i.e. taxation, justification in court, etc.

>>What you are proposing will cause some weak men to have extra marital affairs.

No it will not. Those who are doing it are doing with/without that law as in Pakistan where the law exists, and in the Arab world where it does not exist.

>>This is not good for the woman who is cheated, and not good for the mistress who will not get all the rights of a wife.

My point is that having a mistress/ second wife out of lust/love is adultery/legalized adultery.

>>All I am saying is that what you think is good, might not be that great. You have to think of all the cases.

And all I am saying is, that we can have laws where the Shariah is silent based on the fundamental premise of human dignity and respect.[/quote]

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