Divorce and Separation
1,425 questions
Does a triple divorce take effect if the husband made the divorce contingent upon a specific action, and the wife then performed that action?
Does a wife become a stranger to her husband if the husband believes that an innovative divorce (talaq bid'i) does not take effect, while the wife believes the opposite, and the husband adheres to his opinion after the 'iddah (waiting period) has ended? And if the spouses have followed someone who says that innovative divorce does not take effect, is it permissible for them to continue doing so despite the wife's misgivings and her fears of the possibility of committingzina? And is her situation similar to that of the questioner mentioned in Fatwa 207349?
Is expiation incumbent upon one who swore an oath by triple divorce not to play football, and what is this expiation?
Is it the case that a person suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (waswās) does not commit ẓihār, khulʿ, taḥrīm, or delegation thereof, if he utters such words without genuine intent, or if he does not hear himself speak, by analogy with his divorce not taking effect in such a state?
Does a divorce occur if a man says to his wife: "If I have intercourse with you, you are divorced," or "If I sleep with you, you are divorced," with the intention of divorce? And is foreplay without penetration considered intercourse that would cause a divorce to occur?
Does a divorce take place if a husband repeatedly says to his wife: "Go to your family; I don't want you and I won't continue with you," and his statement: "I might have actually uttered the oath, and you are with me in a haram (unlawful) life," considering he has two previous divorces?
Is it permissible to seek divorce and go to one's family home when the husband forces his wife to engage in anal intercourse, justifying his act by claiming that the hadiths prohibiting it are unsound, while the wife fears that if she refuses, she will be cursed by the angels?
What is the ruling of Islamic law concerning a wife who repeatedly commits an act that I forbade her from and made her divorce conditional upon, knowing that I do not wish to divorce her?
Does a triple divorce count as a single divorce if the husband intended it as such in a state of anger? Is it a revocable divorce, allowing the husband to take his wife back during her iddah after reconciliation? What is the expiation for a husband saying to his wife, "You are to me as the back of my mother" in a state of extreme anger?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the cessation of marital relations and the husband's squandering of his wife's rights, due to his inability to consummate the relationship except by using his hand for arousal, and his refusal to admit that this is a result of masturbation?
What is the ruling on divorce oaths that the husband does not remember?
Is a wife entitled to seek divorce for harm (talaq li al-darar) due to her husband's ill-treatment of her and her family, his refusal to allow her to travel to see her family, and his threat to prevent her from seeing her son in the future?
Does divorce occur by imagining the words "you are divorced" to oneself while thinking with agitation and anger?
What is the Sharia ruling regarding a wife who has been divorced three times by her husband's statement: "By Allah, you are divorced three times if you enter your paternal aunt's house, or your maternal aunt's house, or our house without me, and every riyal I saved to bring you here to me in the Kingdom, I will travel to marry someone else, and if I do not marry, then you are divorced by three," and is it obligatory for the husband to marry another woman for his first wife to become lawful for him?
Does a husband's statement to his wife, "You are not binding upon me," count as one of the allusive phrases of divorce, thus necessitating anxiety and confusion?
Is swearing an oath of threefold divorce in a state of extreme anger, without intention or premeditation, that the wife shall not sit at the husband's personal device or his private social media account, considered a divorce? And is there expiation for it? And is it permissible to allow her to use a new personal device and her own social media account?
Is the husband's statement: "You got to know girls, so you started comparing; you will ruin our lives and have ruined them," considered a divorce, or a conditional divorce, and must the wife ask him about his intention?
Is a wife considered divorced if she leaves the house twice without her husband's knowledge or permission, after he sent her a message in English stating: "If you leave the house without my knowledge, or if I don't agree, then you are divorced," knowing that his intention was to discipline her, and that her leaving was not out of necessity?
Does a stepmother who was definitively divorced (talaq bain baynunah sughra) during a death-bed illness, and who absolved her children's father of all her rights in the divorce contract, have the right to inherit from him?
What should a wife do whose husband mistreats and beats her, threatens her with divorce and with not claiming the child in her womb, and wastes his money on the internet and phone calls? Should she go to her family's house to get a divorce, or should she be patient?
Should I be patient with my husband who broke his promises after marriage, refuses to spend on us, evades his responsibilities towards me and my children, and threatens to divorce me, knowing that I love him and fear repeating the experience of divorce and its impact on my children and my reputation, or should I ask for a separation from him?
Does divorce take effect if the wife says, "You'll be divorced by me [or, I will seek Khul' from you]," and then the husband repeats, "May you and your mother be divorced by me [or, may Khul' befall you and your mother]?" And does divorce take effect with the phrase, "May you be divorced [or, may a divorce befall you]"? And are "release" (tasrih) and "separation" (firaq) among the explicit wordings of divorce?
What is the ruling on a husband demanding his wife to conceive, when she does not desire to do so until he apologizes to her family for insulting them, especially given her feelings of insecurity, his constant threats of divorce, his humiliation of her, and her desire for the family to continue for the sake of their son?
Does a woman sin if she marries during a period of an invalid marriage?