ABSTRACT
As I stated in previous chapters, most Muslims believe that by practicing and imitating the image and reported sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad that they have mastered their religious duties. Muslims came to codify the reported sunnah, and view these traditions (the sunnah) erroneously as if they were as sacred as the Quran. Essential as they may be as the second source of Islam, interpreters abused some of these traditions with regards to attire, segregation, and seclusion (Introduction), with regards to trusteeship and leadership (Chapter 1), and with regards to self-identity, witnessing, and testimony (Chapter 2). In this chapter, I discuss qaran (marriage), talaq (dissolution of the marriage) and some pertinent issues; infaq (economic support), ’iddah (the waiting period when a husband pronounces separation from his wife, after complete dissolution of marriage, or when the husband dies), and sakan (housing/shelter) of the wife during marriage, after separation, during reconciliation, and/or at the final steps in completing the dissolution of marriage, and after the husband’s death.
