A CRITICAL REVIEW OF PAKISTANI MUSLIM FAMILY LAWS ORDINANCE 1961 IN THE LIGHT OF ISLAMIC FAMILY LAWS

Altaf Hussain Langrial; Syed Abrar Hussain Shah

Altaf Hussain Langrial Department of Islamic Studies,The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Syed Abrar Hussain Shah Department of Islamic Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Keywords: CRITICAL REVIEW

Abstract

The article in hand describes the critical review of Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 with reference to Pakistan. The main purpose behind this critique is to make a comparison between Muslim Family Laws and Pakistani Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961 and to find out the similarities and the contrasts between them. Many of Muslim scholars are of the view that Pakistani MFLO (Muslim Family Laws Ordinance) is not in accordance with the Muslim Laws and Dr. Masud is one of them. According to him the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance (1961) not a comprehensive set of code to follow marriages, divorce and dowry matters but compilation of few amendments in the British rules that usually required solutions from Fiqah Hanfia and Shafi to fill the vacuum in settling disputes (Iqbal, Dawn.com, 2009).First of all legal system and brief history has been given. Afterwards the comparison between Muslim Family Laws and Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 has been made. For this, original text of MFLO has been given and after each section, Islamic concept has been given to facilitate the reader. After the research it was found that there are many contradictions in the Pakistani Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 and still it needs to be refined.