Negotiating Marital Harmony in Cross-Social-Status Marriages: A Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah Perspective
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Differences in social status have become one of the dynamics in contemporary marriages due to increasing social mobility, educational advancement, and changing patterns of partner selection. Such differences are frequently assumed to influence marital harmony because they may generate disparities in values, lifestyles, communication, and family expectations. This study aims to analyze the concept of marital harmony in marriages involving different social statuses from the perspective of maqāṣid al-sharī'ah and to reconstruct the concept of kafā'ah within the context of contemporary Islamic family law. This research employed normative legal research using a qualitative approach with conceptual and analytical methods. The data were obtained through library research based on primary, secondary, and tertiary legal materials and were analyzed descriptively using content analysis. The findings demonstrate that marital harmony is not determined by equality of social status but by the spouses' ability to realize the objectives of maqāṣid al-sharī'ah, namely the protection of religion, life, intellect, lineage, and property. Accordingly, the concept of kafā'ah should be reconstructed from a status-oriented paradigm into a maslahah-oriented paradigm that emphasizes religious commitment, moral integrity, mutual responsibility, effective communication, and shared family welfare as the primary indicators of compatibility.
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