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Decorum of Family Relations as Social Order in Meta-science of Tawhid

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In the truly Islamic society, family and social life with gender issues is a highly organized moral order. Women after divorce or during the process towards divorce are considered with undiminished honour and social accord. All social amenities, such as caring for prenatal period for expecting mothers and the civil conduct of divorce to be strictly observed by husbands and wives in the Islamic society are of a highest legal order and decorum. Regarding all matters involved in this inter-personal and social observances of family life with its social and moral bearing, which the Qur’an declares (65:6–7):

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    All translations and exegeses of the Qur’an are from A. Yusuf Ali (2013). The Meaning of the Holy Quran.

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Choudhury, M.A. (2019). Decorum of Family Relations as Social Order in Meta-science of Tawhid. In: Meta-Science of Tawhid. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21558-3_17

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