The conclusion of this study shows that there are differences between the Islamic Shari law and the positive law in regard to the adultery as a crime | |
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The most important differences are the social and psychological dimensions of handling the Shari texts of adultery through having warnings before making the crime like the graduated deterrence for people by warning and dissuasion while the positive law view was limited to the parties of the crime and the third party of the crime and the damage which may be caused to them | However, the punishment is cancelled out against the adulterer the adulteress whenever a legal evidence proves his or her innocence such as proving the adulterer the adulteress to be not present when die crime of adultery took place or if the man is impotent |
In this study, adultery as a crime is subject to comparison between the Islamic Shari law and the positive law.
25On the other hand, this study clarifies the legal procedures of the positive law on how they are adjusted to handle the crime of adultery through filing lawsuits, who has the right to institute the lawsuit, the ways of proving it, prescription or abatement of lawsuit, the view to parties of the crime, the way of detection and the penalties prescribed by the laws against the parties of the crime | As for matrimony is to be in maturity, sexual intercourse out of legal marriage with the continuity of a lifetime marriage justifies the punishment If any of the above mentioned conditions does not eadst, the adulterer is to be treated as unmarried |
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