Jealousy between wives and its impact on jurisprudential rulings

Abstract

I explored the topic of jealousy that God instilled in the hearts of spouses for a great wisdom and defined the meaning of jealousy in the beginning linguistically and technically. Then the wisdom of jeolusy in the marital life is explained followed by its bad effects physically and mentally. Then the shari’ah rulings informed by jealousy have been outlined.

-Jealousy affects the marriage contract; no one can marry a woman and her mother or two sisters, a daughter of his brother and his sister’s daughter. This is because it will lead to jealousy, enmity, grudge between them and severed kinship relations. 

It is permissible to a wife who has hard feelings of jealousy to ask for divorce. However, she cannot ask for the divorce of the other wife because this involves injustice and family disunion.

Jeoulsy is disregarded in crimes and compensation. If one of the wives killed or maimed the other she must pay indemnity and do atonement ans has to give compensation in case of damage.       

Jealousy does not abolish the penalty in case of accusing the of adultery without proof.

  Jealousy does not allow the second wife to to boast over the other or pretending that she alone has been given something by the husband.

 It is forbidden to combine two wives in one home, in order to avoid jealousy.