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Interfaith Dialogue in Islam

11 Christianity prohibits divorce unlike
Islam. Does this mean Christianity is

better of the two?

n principle, divorce is neither encouraged by
IChristianity nor by Islam. The Bible does not have a
literal commandment prohibiting divorce, which should
have been the case going by the premise of the question.
According to a tradition, the Prophet Muhammad said:

Of all things permitted, divorce is the most
hateful in the sight of God. (Sunan Abu
Dawud, Kitab at-Talaq, vol. 2, p. 255)
According to Quranic teaching, marriage is the rule of life,
and divorce only an exception. But the latter must also be
accepted as a reality. Indeed, there exist commandments
to deal with such cases in both religious and secular laws.
Although Islam permits divorce, it lays great emphasis on
it being used a last resort—a measure to be taken when
all attempts at reconciliation have failed.

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