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28 March 2024

Man divorces wife over eye lens…

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A Saudi man divorced his wife after she disobeyed him and wore eye lens while another husband ended his marriage because he was jealous of a camel.

Another man immediately divorced his wife after she told him to shut up while a wife took her husband to court for a divorce because he is short.

According to Sabq Arabic language daily, Saudi Arabia is witnessing high divorce rates and many such cases involve trivial reasons.

It cited figures by the Justice Ministry showing around 132,400 couples married in 2015 while nearly 27,200 were divorced, a rate of one divorce per every five marriages.

The paper listed the four strangest divorces in the world’s dominant oil exporter and largest Arab economy in 2014.

*  A man divorced his wife just a month after their marriage because she disobeyed his orders not to wear eye lens on the grounds she is faking beauty.

*  A man divorced his new wife after she commented on an expensive racing camel owned by her father that it is worth more than her own husband.

*  A wife went to court and demanded a divorce seven months after her marriage on the grounds her husband is very short and she is embarrassed to go out with him. The girl told the judge her friends and other people look sarcastically at them. The judge agreed to grant her a divorce.

*  A husband divorced his wife a year after their marriage because she jokingly said to him ‘shut up’. Just after she uttered those words, he immediately divorced her in front of his mother.

Saudi Arabia, with a population of around 21 million Saudis and nine million expatriates, has one of the highest divorce cases in the world relatives to its population.

The report did not mention divorce reasons but a recent study showed there are many causes for failing marriages, including forced marriage of daughters, social barriers, lack of understanding between spouses, a general trend by men to dominate, Misyar marriage, snoring and other factors.

Nearly 80 per cent of the divorces in Saudi Arabia are a result of snoring by husbands, their lack of affection towards wives, the widespread Misyar marriage, the influence of western media and movies on Saudi women, social and tribal barriers, and other factors, according to the study.

In another report, the Saudi news network Alarabiya quoted a scholar as saying the introduction of Misyar marriage was a key cause for the surge in divorce rates.

“Misyar is the main factor…this is because when the man’s first wife discovers that her husband married another woman under Misyar contract, he will feel danger and this will prompt him to divorce the second wife easily…Misyar is seen as a temporary marriage and that is why divorce rates have increased in the kingdom,” said Sheikh Mohammed Al Falaj, a family affair consultant.

A Misyar contract is a marriage contract where couples can live separately but get together regularly, often for sexual relations.

Although allowed in Saudi Arabia and under Sunni Islam, Misyar is not popular with many who see it as legal prostitution. Women lose nearly all their rights in a Misyar marriage and nearly 80 per cent of Misyar relationships end in divorce.

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