An Inquiry into Divorce

Divorce or ending the connection between wife and husband becomes valid by pronouncing especial words and it is different from such concepts as marriage break-up, declaration of husband's loss and desertion. In Islam giving the right of divorce to man is founded on the traditions which confirm the idea of entrusting to man financial responsibilities, and refer to natural and sexual differences between man and woman. There are two kinds of divorce: the first is not adherence to one’s promise including the promise to provide conventional facilities for life, satisfying sexual need, paying alimony and lack of understanding between spouses, and such thing like absence of mutual affections, hatred, indency, emotional in attention to religion, doing dishonest things, and addiction. Although Islam is extremely against divorce, it approves it and sometimes considers necessary when spouses do not adhere to their promise and do not do their duties and when the philosophy of marriage and some social institutions are in danger.