That usually means any sexual relation outside of marriage is forbidden, even between life partners.
A quick Google tells me they probably practice temporary marriage as well but call it something else (and details differ).
Anyone actually knowledgeable, please chime in.
It is quite common around the world, just as a matter of distribution of dating success events.
And of course law enforcement isn't 100% efficient.
No, because legally the spouse then has all the rights of a marriage (alimony, etc.) Prostitutes do not get alimony.
From today's point of view the solution sucks, but people back then had a very different view of marriage (and life as a single men or women). Marriage could be about love, but it was often just a transaction that establishes how people cohabitate and share roles in a household.
I was wondering if married rape victims would be executed, or if it is implicit that they get the same blameless treatment as engaged rape vicitims. It is not clear from the context if you read litteraly.
> If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
> you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death--the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
> But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.
> Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor,
> for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
> If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
> he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
It is a very harsh punishment, I do not agree with it, but intended to punish adultery not to punish women specifically. That is why the provision for country vs. town. A reasonable reading is if a woman is raped/resists she should not be punished, if she is committing adultery she should. Probably happened because of a problem with women would be caught and say they were raped. But religion bad amirite fellow men of culture tips fedora
Although I can't help but snicker at the image of a bunch of poor cops desperately trying to memorize marriage certificates from around the world.
This isn't really about consensual heterosexual hooks up, more like someone gets raped, tries to report to the police and ends up in prison for adultery. It happens all the time in Dubai with western tourists or expats.
That's why these laws really exist, to deprive females of any agency.
Furthermore, married or not according to sharia law, homosexual intercourse is automatically adultery.
If you're caught, then you, as the foreigner, will have to verify it. So it's not their problem.
But on the plus side, you'd have all this time while awaiting trial or in jail to do it...
>Although I can't help but snicker at the image of a bunch of poor cops desperately trying to memorize marriage certificates from around the world.
Cops wont have to memorize anything. If it comes to that, and someone is reported and arrested or questioned for this reason, then he would need to provide the certificate, and some clerk will have to verify it.
I do not think, this is how it works around there. "The poor cops" will have no problem locking anyone in, until they can proof in a way that pleases the cops, that their papers are allright.
I doubt this law will be enforced strictly as this would cause too much bad press, when important people(from rich western nations) are getting problems, but some poor workers are probably have to get their papers right, translated, locally certified, etc.
Aside from using something other than “copy paper” and added ornamentation, this could describe all of my US legal documents including my marriage and birth certificates.
This while much of the emirates is serviced by a slave-class Indians, who can't practice their religion, build temples (exceptions: Oman, UAE), or anything "disallowed" by the savage law-system they practice. Then these same good-for-nothing oil sheikhs preach to India!
Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood it rears really are the worst threats to humanity. Alas, most Islamists take their training again from India's UP (no better way to develop anti-kafir theology when surrounded by them I suppose). Ah the many manifestations of India's savage colonizers.
people were being killed in the streets, with sticks, no legal protection women getting raped, not to mention the obsession with raping kids in temples and whatnot in India not long ago I think someone published here on HN an article about the Indian police planting evidence on victims computers.
Not to mention taking the citizenship from the Indian muslims Not to mention street shitting, not to mention praying for covid and for toilets and every single dirty thing one can think of. Not to mention bathing in cow dung. Not to mention the extremely cruel caste system which has no basis but inner discrimination and separating the society.
will you rage against these practices or show any sign of disagreement to the Indian government? we don't see any such efforts on your side so If anything I would say Qatar should stop accepting Hindus.
You've done nothing to the muslims but murdered them, raped their women, offended them, mocked their religion and prophet lately too, and you don't even deserve to have temples built in their land, you're the only danger to humanity because if things get out of hands you will make the whole planet a one big literal shithole.
Unbeknownst to us there was also a law that unmarried heterosexual couples couldn’t share hotel accommodations. In some places this meant the men had to share a room and the women had to share a room because, when asked, we couldn’t provide a marriage certificate. (Ironically their strict enforcement of the law intended to prevent premarital sex would have the opposite effect.) But in some hotels the way they got around this was to simply note that we were married. Often without even asking. And in one instance when things got a bit dicey the hotel manager was sufficiently satisfied of our “marriage” by seeing the receipts of our other hotel stays.
All of that is to say I got the impression it’s a very subjective and selectively enforced thing.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_Uni...