Islamabad: Chairman of Pakistan’s official Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Maulana Mohammad Khan Sheerani has said a Muslim woman cannot object to the second or subsequent marriages of her husband, according to media reports
Presiding over a meeting of the council here Tuesday, he said a woman could not demand divorce if her husband married a second, third or fourth time.
He said Islam had given the women the right to separate from her husband, but another marriage could not be a valid ground for doing so.
The council meeting discussed the relevant section of the Muslim Divorce Act, 1939, and observed that it was against Sharia. “We want the government to repeal this section,” Sheerani said.
“Sharia allows men to have more than one wife and we demanded the government to amend the relevant laws where a person has to seek prior permission from the existing wife/wives,” the CII chief said.
