Pakistani dramas have always been famous for not only providing quality entertainment but also for depicting social evils in a way that people who watch these dramas are enlightened about social issues and evils. Dramas become more than just entertainment then; they reflect what is going n in our society, well in any society and also educate the masses.
There was a time when dramas focused more on issues relating to families or about problems faced by the common man and sometimes about individuals who were fighting a battle with their own self. For the past few years it seems like our dramas have been obsessed with depicting problems between couples which most often involve a second woman and it is usually the wife who is the victim. There are many women who are isolated, neglected and cheated by their men, I am absolutely not denying that but the problem I have is especially with the way the husbands in these dramas divorce their wives so conveniently and sometimes it feels like divorce is no longer depicted as a social evil but it is almost as if it is being promoted. I will not go into the details of what Islam says about divorce because I am sure all of us are well aware of the fact that although Muslims have the option of divorcing their wives or the wives taking divorce from their husbands, it is an act detested by God. I would much rather quote a haidth here to sum things up: Allah did not make anything lawful more abominable to Him than Divorce. Of all the lawful acts the most detestable to Allah is Divorce.(Sunan Abu dawud: Book #12, Hadith #2172-2173).
Why is it then that we see so many women being divorced in our dramas like it is no big deal? In Zard Mausam Aimen was divorced within seconds, sure she was to blame but Aimen was held responsible solely and no one debated that there could have been room for compromise and the divorce could have been avoided. Nazish in Mera Yakeen has been divorced twice and now she has to marry her best friend's husband because after being divorced twice no one will accept her….so basically the issue here is also not divorce and the focus is not on what an evil divorce is but that Nazish is a good person and she will get what she deserves eventually. Why did the writer put her through two divorces? Couldn't she have been shown as a woman who was getting older and no one would marry her and had no choice but to get married to her best friend's husband. Are we not "glorifying"/"sensationalizing" divorce by depicting it where it is absolutely unnecessary? Women who get divorced and still are patient are rewarded, is that the moral of the story? Next I would like to give the example of Shehr-e-Zaat, another play which many people love and I do too but again I think the way Salmnn told Falak's mother that he would be more than happy to divorce Falak anytime she asked for it and Falak's mother also said hamari beti hami koi bhari nahi hai was wrong. Even Naani did not draw anyone's attention towards the fact that divorce is the most detestable of acts in the eyes of Allah but the focus was more on other things. Again I would say that there was no need of touching the subject of divorce if there was no need in the story for it. Then there was the play Janaat Se Nikaali Hui Auraat in which the viewers just kept on debating all through the play whether the leading lady had really been divorced or the divorce was ineffective. If the writer wanted to show how parents are not taken care of in their old age by their children, she could have shown a widow or a couple which was not financially independent so they had to rely on their children…why did she choose to touch the issue of divorce when it had no real relevance? In Yahan Pyar Nahi Hai Saim divorces Shumaila when he finds out what she had been doing behind his back. In all these dramas divorce was shown as a punishment that women deserve if they wronged their husband when in reality in Islam Divorce is the very last resort when all other things fail but in all our plays we see men divorcing their wives out of sheer anger. The right of second marriage has been given to men under Islam mainly in order to avoid divorce. I could give many other examples of dramas that unnecessarily showed husbands divorcing their wives sometimes more than one but I am going to stop here because I think I have stated enough examples to get my point across.
I wish that our dramas would focus on how wrong divorce is in the eyes of God and show couples who were on the verge of divorce but decided not to go ahead with it because it is wrong socially and morally and ended up living perfect lives. In that way the audience will get better lessons. Divorce is such a serious issue a whole Surah in Quran (Quran Chapter 65, Surah Al-Talaq) has been devoted to the issue of divorce and everything spelled out loud and clear, I wish we would not deal with the issue of divorce with such insensitivity in our dramas and even viewers who support divorce and pass comments like so and so person should be divorced really should think twice.
What do you people think? Do share your opinion.
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