I don't know that forgiveness is possible after that. There has to be another motive.
you would be surprised.
But it's normal part of life for women under Sharia.
A relative has a co-worker who's ex-wife married an Egyptian and moved to Egypt. He was telling the relative that the ex's current husband beat the woman, knocked out all of her teeth and put her in the hospital. Under Egyptian law, unless she is in the hospital more than 20 days it is not serious enough to warrant criminal charges.
That's just sick.
She doesn't have a choice. In extreme Islamic society, women are seen as less than human; they're property. When he gets out of prison, this creep gets possession his wife back, and I use the word possession advisedly. While the court is willing to punish him for trying to kill her, she has a little leverage she can use to secure a divorce, and a window of safety for herself and her kids.
I suspect she will soon leave Saudi, but she will spend the rest of her life looking over her shoulder for agents hired by her husband, or the Saudi government, coming to kidnap her kids.
That's the way it is.
If he had killed her, all he had to say was he suspected her of having an affair. The cops would apologise for wasting his time, and that would be the end of it.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F