Divorce and Separation
1,425 questions
Is the divorce considered to have occurred by an allusive utterance and explicit intention when the husband said to the wife's father: "Rather, we will complete the procedures, and I do not want to continue marital life with her, nor is there any intention of reconciliation"? If so, has the legal waiting period (iddah) ended after six menstrual cycles have passed? Or does the iddah begin from the date of the court's decision of separation? And is the wife's request to end the marital life considered Khulʿ (divorce at the wife's instance with compensation), Faskh (annulment), or Talaq (unilateral divorce by the husband), and does the iddah differ in these cases?
Is a wife's desire for khula so that she can be free and travel considered a sin upon her, and what advice is directed to her?
Is the woman considered irrevocably divorced (talaq al-thalaath) after her husband repeated the phrase "You are forbidden to me until the Day of Judgment" and told her that she is no longer his wife, knowing that he had explicitly divorced her once before?
Does uttering "you are divorced" to the wife, with the intention of divorce during anger, constitute a divorce, and how can she be taken back?
What is the ruling on a husband having sexual intercourse with his divorced wife during her 'iddah (waiting period), and is this considered as her returning to his marital bond, or is it considered zinā (fornication/adultery)?
What is the ruling on a divorce oath [yamin al-talaq] made by saying "By divorce, I will not take the house" [‘ali al-talaq ma akhudh al-bayt], and is expiation for an oath [kaffarat al-yamin] permissible in the questioner’s country of residence or in their home country, and what is the ruling on intercourse after this oath?
What is the ruling on one who divorced his wife with three pronouncements in a single sitting, by saying: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced," with the intention of three, and is reconciliation possible after this divorce, and how was divorce during the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?
What is the ruling on the oaths sworn by the husband with divorce in the following cases: if my family contacts him, or if I send him a text message, or if I discuss a topic he dislikes, or if I return home after he swore by divorce if I return? And is it permissible for the husband to relinquish his authority ( عصمة) to his wife?
Does my saying to my wife after an argument, "By God, I will not keep you under my responsibility for one minute after this, by God's will," entail anything, even though I did not mean anything by it?
Is the holding of one's breath or the emission of an unarticulated sound upon hearing the Imam utter words of separation, coupled with the intention of divorce, considered a divorce?
Is uttering the phrase: "You are a Talaq: meaning beautiful" considered a divorce?
What is the ruling on a husband saying to his wife: "I swear by Almighty God three times that you will be divorced if you spend any of your money on the house"?
Does the divorce of a man who divorced his wife while under the influence of drugs and in a state of extreme anger, and who repeated the word of divorce several times, take effect? And can he take her back with a new contract or without one if the divorce did not take effect, knowing that the last divorce was a year ago?
Must a husband divorce his wife if she insults him and participates with her family in assaulting him, or should he continue with her despite all that has happened?
What is the religious ruling, and what is the method for a wife to obtain a divorce from her husband who drinks alcohol, curses, commits adultery, and refuses to divorce her out of vengeance, especially since she has not had marital relations with him for three months?
Is it permissible for a woman to seek divorce due to a spell of separation and her husband's infidelity, knowing that she is pregnant and fears the fetus may be deformed, and she does not wish to have children from him?
Would the wife be considered sinful if she refused her husband due to his ill-treatment and neglect of her and their daughter, his irresponsibility, his lying, his inconsistency in prayer, and his sexual weakness, especially after repeated failed attempts at reform? And what is the way to reform the husband's condition, refine his character, and make him assume his responsibilities?
Does divorce occur by saying "I swear by divorce that you will enter" and "You will be divorced if you open the email or change anything in it," with the intention of threat and not separation? And is the passage of 85 days considered an تجاوز للعدة (exceeding the waiting period) if divorce occurred?
Does a divorce occur if the husband says to his wife during an argument, "If you do such and such, you are divorced," and then the wife does that later and swears that she does not remember this condition?
What is the ruling on saying "divorce is forbidden" if it slips from the tongue unintentionally, without intending divorce or having the intention of it?
Does a triple divorce befall the wife if her daughter marries a man whose father swore by divorce that she would not marry him?
What does a husband do to atone for his oath of divorce, after he said to his mother: "Divorce be upon me, as long as my wife is at her mother's house, she will not go out to your house, and as long as she is at your house, she will not go down to her mother's house"?
Does a divorce take effect if one says, "Divorce is obligatory upon me," without intending it, given that he is afflicted with obsessive thoughts of divorce?
Does the husband's saying to his wife, "Every time you say you want a divorce, so rely on God," with the intention of anger only and without the intention of divorce, affect the marital bond, and is this utterance considered among the ambiguous phrases of divorce (kinayat al-talaq)?