Whoever wants to guarantee women’s rights as human beings, including dignity, justice, and equality, must work to preserve women’s humanity, meaning that they should be treated as human beings and not as animals to be bought and sold like camels or human cattle, No entity other than secular forces can carry out this task, because the rest of the forces, such as religious ones, are bankrupt, We want to preserve women’s rights, men’s rights, children’s rights, or everyone’s rights as we see them secularly and civilly, and as we understand them, not as Abdullah Rushdi, Al-Huwayni, Ibn Abdullah, or their likes understand them.
The issue of women’s rights relates to dozens, even hundreds, of aspects, Therefore, we will limit ourselves to mentioning some of these aspects, including material, social, or even moral and ethical ones,To achieve this, the hand of Sharia must be removed from marriage, because we consider Sharia to be unsuitable to be supervising marriage and its arrangements. Sharia is a shop for buying and selling with a dowry and a contract that deserves the name of a “marriage” contract, Marriage, especially with the motive of marriage and in the absence of acquaintance and the absence of “love,” is nothing but buying and selling, as is the case in brothels.
Morally and objectively, it is inappropriate to continue referring to marriage as a “nikah contract,sexual intercourse” because marriage is not limited to sexual intercourse, A relationship between a man and a woman that is limited to sexual intercourse alone is akin to prostitution, Morally, the term “nikah contract” suggests a great deal of vulgarity and crudeness that married life does not deserve, Furthermore, it is not necessary for there to be a contract between the two parties. A woman who lives with a man by her own choice and consent is considered his wife, and he is her husband, even without a written contract between them, The contract exists in civil laws, which consider the shared life between an adult woman and an adult man a marital relationship,Civil laws apply to everyone without discrimination, thus achieving equality among all marriages. This is what civil law guarantees, as its provisions apply to everyone, There is no room for special considerations in civil law, although every marital relationship has its own specificities that the wife and husband regulate in a way that suits them, With marriage, that is, living together, the individual rights cease to exist and are replaced by the right of marital partnership, transforming the spouses into something akin to a single body, where each member or partner has specific roles, Duties and rights as well, so that there is integration within the family.
The income of either of them is the income of both of them, even if the work of either of them is limited to domestic work, such as the woman’s work in the house, Here it is not permissible to say that the husband spends on her if he works outside the house, for his income here is also her income, And if separation occurs between them, each of them is entitled to half of what was earned during married life,The right of separation is guaranteed to each of them equally, And the law that gives the male the right of separation and prevents it from the woman is a corrupt law, like the corruption of the right of polygamy.
The age that allows for the establishment of this partnership is over 18 years for both of them, Civil law does not recognize any marriage below this age. Marriage or the marriage of minors is prohibited, and whoever has not reached the age of 18 is considered a child, Religious men have no relation to the subject of marriage, which can take place even without a civil contract, Voluntary joint life is considered a fully-fledged marital life.
There is no such thing as marital infidelity, nor is there such a thing as adultery, as stated in Article 111 of the Iraqi Penal Code, A man beating his wife or children is not called a disciplinary act or a male right, but rather a criminal act that compels the civil authorities to end the state of cohabitation and place the children under the supervision of the mother or father in rare cases, or under the supervision of another family, as happens frequently in Sweden and the rest of the Scandinavian and European countries, The children are the children of life and not exclusively the children of the spouses.
The subject of married life or shared life has many complexities and differences between societies, It is clear that shared married life fails in religious societies or groups at a higher rate than in secular civil societies, Swedish society expresses the secular civil state in the family and marriage, while Afghan groups express the religious state, The comparison between Sweden and Afghanistan illustrates the difference between the religious and the civil!
Whoever wants to guarantee women’s rights as human beings, including dignity, justice, and equality, must work to preserve women’s humanity, meaning that they should be treated as human beings and not as animals to be bought and sold like camels or human cattle, No entity other than secular forces can carry out this task, because the rest of the forces, such as religious ones, are bankrupt, We want to preserve women’s rights, men’s rights, children’s rights, or everyone’s rights as we see them secularly and civilly, and as we understand them, not as Abdullah Rushdi, Al-Huwayni, Ibn Abdullah, or their likes understand them.