Real Revolution — Page 184
184 women. Instead of trying to crush their natural emotions, you should learn to understand them and appreciate them, especially in cases where you happen to have married more than one wife. It is very clear. injunction of the Shariah that a man should keep all his wives on the same level. But unfortunately it is only too true that in many cases I have seen the teaching is often violated. . Such people perhaps assume that a woman does not carry a heart in her breast but only a lump of stone, devoid of feeling and emotion. I have even come across cases where, without any justification in the Shariah, a wife is forbidden the natural normal contact with her parents, and the husband presumptuously gives to himself a position where his wife should live absolutely under his command, will and pleasure. Foolish people of this type fail to realise that a woman also is a human being, with all the feelings and emotions natural to the human heart. They should pause to think what would be their reaction if they were to be called upon not to serve their parents in any way, nor have anything to do with them. Naturally, they would not welcome such a demand. In fact they would be perfectly justified to resent it. Then why do they impose such restrictions upon their wives? It pains me to know that some among you who have more wives than one do not accord equal treatment to them