Divorce and Separation
1,425 questions
Is an expiatory offering (kaffarah) for an oath binding upon my husband, and is sexual intercourse permissible before the expiation, if he swore upon me that I would not go beyond the inner door of the house (i.e., that I would not go out into the courtyard) except only when getting into the car, and that if I were to go beyond it, then I would be divorced by triple talaq, and he is regretful for his oath, which was made in a moment of anger?
What are the legitimate rights of a wife who has sought an irrevocable divorce and has one daughter from her husband?
Does divorce occur and a divorce pronouncement (talaq) count against a man who said to his wife's brother: "Her papers will arrive after forty [days]," intending to scare him and end the conversation, and not intending divorce, knowing that his wife was in postpartum confinement (nifas)?
What is the ruling on swearing by triple divorce with the intention of expressing annoyance, and does it take effect if one intends to restrict it to a place or persons, and how can one be released from it, and what are the consequences for the wife if she speaks about the matter that the husband swore not to speak about?
Is verbal marriage and divorce recognized if not in Arabic?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on a wife who concealed her chronic illness from her husband, and her illness caused a miscarriage, and she refuses to waive some of her rights upon amicable separation?
Does a woman who was divorced by a first or second revocable divorce, whose waiting period has expired, and who married someone else and then returned to her first husband, return to him with three new divorces or with the remaining divorces?
Must a wife remain in the marital home and refuse to let her husband enter after he has divorced her and threatened to evict her, and is it permissible for her to go out for purposes other than work?
Does prohibition and divorce take effect, or is expiation obligatory for the wife if she swore to her husband that she would be forbidden to him and divorced by three if she touched his phones and searched them, and then she did so?
What is the ruling regarding the return of a wife after a single divorce, accompanied by an oath of ẓihār, and the expiration of her waiting period (ʿiddah) before the return is documented in court?
Does a triple divorce by oath take effect without knowledge of its meaning or intention to divorce, and does this entail sin or expiation, such as feeding the poor or fasting?
How can a woman obtain divorce or khul’ from her foreign (Syrian) husband in Jordan, given that there is no proof of her marriage and the husband refuses to divorce?
Does divorce take effect and is an oath atonement (kaffarat yamin) or divorce required for the husband who said to his wife: "Divorce and oath upon me (Ali al-Talaq wal Yamin), you will not sit with my mother again and you will not eat with her," then they reconciled, sat, and ate together?
What is the ruling on a man divorcing his wife three separate times in anger with the intention [of divorce], and then linking her return to her not becoming pregnant, knowing that he had divorced her jokingly before that?
What is the ruling regarding divorce occurring in the following cases: If the husband swore by divorce, "If you do not go to my mother and kiss her head, you are divorced," and the wife did not go until the next day? And if he swore, "If you go to your sister's wedding, you are divorced," and the wife went? And if the husband said to his wife, "You are divorced," after she requested a divorce? And if the husband said, "By divorce, in two days I will send you your filthy paper"? And if the husband swore, "By triple divorce, it did not happen," while he knew that it had happened, and claimed that his intention was only to swear and not to divorce?
Does a wife observe the iddah of death or the iddah of divorce after the death of her husband who had divorced her more than once before his death? And does she inherit from him?
What is the ruling on a husband retracting his oath of divorce after uttering it, and does the divorce occur if the oath is broken when the husband retracts it and then the wife breaks her oath, and what should the wife do if the divorce occurs in order to return to her husband?
Does divorce and the prohibition of the wife take effect if the husband says to her, "You are divorced, divorced, divorced, and unlawful to me like the back of my mother," when he intended to frighten her and did not intend divorce?
Is it considered permissible to have sexual relations with a married Christian woman, with the knowledge of her family, her husband, and some Filipinos, and given that there is no divorce in her country's law?
Must I divorce my wife, with whom I constantly disagree and who wishes for divorce due to our incompatibility and differing temperaments, knowing that she has a daughter from me and is my maternal cousin's daughter?
What is the ruling on a woman who has been granted a divorce (khul') leaving her home to work, buy necessities, and run errands during her waiting period ('iddah)?
Is it permissible for me to seek permission to go to my father's house and inform him of my departure from the home and request a divorce due to my husband's repeated customary marriages, his travel to countries I warned him against, his change and avoidance of me, and his lying to me, even though I lack nothing?
Does divorce take place if I swore by it upon my wife that she should not come down from the roof, and she came down after fifteen minutes?
Does triple talaq take effect because the husband made his wife swear to believe his mother about leaving the room, and then the husband remembered that this had happened before?