Habiba Nassar
With the first days of the new year, a state of anticipation and anxiety prevailed in the entire society, which was translated into reality by the questions of the social media audience, which created a state of confusion about the new personal status law, which made some take a refusal side without knowing the law as they saw it before.
What is the new law for the husband in Egypt announced by Counselor Abd al-Rahman Muhammad, head of the committee for preparing the personal status law, because it guarantees the rights of the husband and wife, in a manner that does not contradict the Sharia .
The most controversial aspect is the text included in the law stating the establishment of a fund for family care, and the government is scheduled to finance the fund, in addition to the contribution of people who are about to get married, in an amount that has not yet been determined.
For long periods of time, we have been seeing and hearing about daily divorces, customary marriages, and marriages of people who are not yet fit to form this system, as Egypt lived a period when everyone was allowed to marry in all its forms, regardless of age, financial conditions, and the physical and practical conditions of each of the parties.
There are studies that confirmed the high rate of divorce compared to the rate of marriage that occurs, and everyone asks where the problem is and they did not address that the real problem that lies in haste and marriage for the sake of the external appearance only without considering that marriage is a complete and integrated system on which everything is based because it results in the future of everyone when it spoils The past spoils the present and distorts the features of the future.
This was a prerequisite that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi spoke about, which is to conduct comprehensive medical examinations that are reviewed by a medical committee and a judge before giving consent to marriage.
Everyone knows that part of this procedure is nothing new, but most of the time it was just a secondary thing that did not happen at all.
In the past few days, we witnessed many marriage contracts that were not taken into account by both parties for fear of the new law. This happened because of fears, ignorance, and lack of understanding of the rules on which this new law is based.
This is exactly the basis for which this law was drafted. To be an important guarantee for the rights of the two parties, and therefore it is a guarantee for the continuation of the marriage itself, the absorption of their future, and their non-escaping from life by separation.
This law, as emphasized by legal scholars and social relations, came to serve as a guarantee for the continuity of the husband, encouragement and assistance in choosing what is most appropriate for both parties from a physical and psychological point of view.
The idea of the law is to build foundations and rules for the benefit of the family and society, limit divorce cases, and help others to understand it or to remain silent, because anyone who does not see the benefit of the family and society in this law is someone who wants to destroy the mundane and family foundations and reverse the well-known Egyptian culture.
We are with the state and with the new law.. with transparency and medical procedures.. with guaranteeing the rights of both parties.. and with a healthy family system with a good society and a future free from defects resulting from the wrong marriage system.
What concerns me is the society’s fear of this law when it deals with the medical examinations item, as it makes each party aware and familiar with the condition of the other party, instead of finding that the reasons for divorce is the problem of childlessness that was possible from the beginning, so knowing this problem from the beginning and upon acceptance of the non-concerned party is his choice of his own free will, without circumventing all parties.
The acceptance or rejection of the committee did not and will not prevent those who wish to marry, but it is the one who will clarify the correct information for the two parties, and in the event of acceptance by the two parties, after knowing the problems, it gives permission to those authorized to reconcile the marriage and write this clear information as a condition of the contract, as it preserves their rights in the event of any future fallacies. .
This law will help to organize the system only and not to impede marriage or control the choice of the parties to each other.
