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Is a wife sinful for concealing the expiry date of her waiting period (iddah) and preventing her husband from officially registering his return (rajah) with the court, and is it considered legally permissible, according to Sharia, if the court rules for her divorce due to the non-registration of the return, which was caused by her concealment of the expiry date of the waiting period?

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Issues involving disputes and conflicts are referred to the شرعي court.

It is not permissible for a woman to conceal the waiting period (iddah) so that her husband cannot take her back, but her statement is accepted outwardly, based on the Almighty's saying: "And it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has created in their wombs," and because the end of the iddah is known only through her.

If the judge rules for divorce based on the woman's statement regarding the end of the iddah, and she was untruthful, the divorce is valid outwardly but not inwardly, because the judge's ruling does not change the reality of the ruling inwardly.

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