Divorce and Separation
1,425 questions
Is it permissible to seek divorce from a husband who is prone to many disputes, uses offensive language, insults the family, hits, cheats, and does not provide for his wife and daughter, and is the father sinful for defending his daughter's dignity?
Does a divorce occur with the words "Sitting on the balcony is different," intending divorce, knowing that the phrase was said after the wife's statement, "Then we won't go," in response to the husband's saying, "The weather is hot outside"?
What is the ruling on a wife's insistence on divorce and her repeated requests for it, along with her leaving the marital home, aborting herself, denying her husband access to the marital bed, and claiming the existence of magic or jinn possession, despite the husband's attempts at reconciliation and his desire to preserve his family?
Is the husband's saying to his colleagues, "She will get angry and I will appease her," in response to their saying, "Your wife will get angry," if he goes out for lunch with them without her, considered an allusive divorce (kināyāt al-ṭalāq) if accompanied by the intention of divorce, knowing that he suffers from obsessive doubts regarding allusive divorce?
What is the legal ruling, and what must a husband do concerning his wife who confessed to infidelity during the engagement period and that she is not a virgin? Is divorce the solution in this case?
What is the ruling of Islamic law concerning a husband who travels for work but does not send money to his wife, citing financial hardship, while his wife suffers psychologically from this?
What is the ruling of Islamic law concerning a woman who requested khul‘ (divorce initiated by the wife) after her husband discovered her relationship with a male colleague at work?
Does anything occur with the utterance "divorcing my wife" or "I have divorced my wife," knowing that the word "divorcing" means launching a missile?
Is it considered a sin for a wife to remain in a state of suspended animation without divorce after her husband marries another, so that her daughters can see him, and her refusal to return to him unless he divorces his other wife?
Is the deferred dower considered a debt upon the deceased husband that must be paid to the wife from the inheritance, given that consummation did not occur?
Is the husband's statement, "Until you come to your senses, you are considered divorced," a divorce? What is the ruling on dealing with him in this situation? Is he permitted to enter the house and sleep next to his wife without intimacy?
Is a wife forbidden to her husband if he says to her: "You are forbidden to me," intending by it to threaten her into not abandoning prayer, and not intending divorce or Zihar (a form of pre-Islamic divorce where the husband declares his wife to be like his mother's back), and what are the consequences of abandoning prayer intentionally or forgetfully after this statement?
Is it permissible for a woman who has been revocably divorced (talaq raj'i) and whose husband has abandoned her for six months, and who is living with her sister and brother-in-law, to begin her 'iddah immediately or after a period of time?
Is jesting about divorce considered Khul' or Talaq, if there was no intention of divorce?
Are the statements issued by the father, "You are divorced" or "I swear by divorce you will not return with me," considered a divorce? How many divorces are counted in this case? Does divorce require intention? Is a son considered disobedient if he defends his mother? And what is the way to deal with a father who gets angry quickly?
Is it permissible for a woman to seek divorce from her husband who marries and divorces frequently, and who often abandons her and travels, while she cannot bear this? And would she be considered unjust to her husband or to his other wife, and is she sinful for informing the other wife about her husband's past, which led to her divorce? And what should she do?
Is a wife divorced in a fit of anger considered irrevocably divorced, and is it permissible to take her back after that while the relationship between the spouses continues?
Did the divorce between the spouses become a major, irrevocable divorce (baynunah kubra) through scattered pronouncements of divorce that reached three pronouncements, after a marriage that took place over the phone and without the consent of the guardian and witnesses?
Is my relative considered divorced after hearing the news of her divorce from her husband's brother's wife, who conveyed to her that her husband asked her to inform her of her divorce, especially since he denies uttering the divorce, and this is the third divorce—if it is valid?
What is your guidance to a woman who prayed to her Lord for a righteous husband, then married someone in whom she discovered many despicable acts and lies, and her religious devotion and marital life were negatively affected, and she is unable to divorce, and do you support her resorting to in-vitro fertilization?
Does divorce occur when there is doubt about it due to the wife's frequent request for it during jokes and problems, and by the husband saying to his wife: "I am stuck with you, I don't want you, and I will consult with my family about separating from you"? And does the wife remain married to her husband if the husband assumes that his divorce has occurred and then takes her back, then discovers that the divorce did not occur? And does divorce occur through thinking or imagining separation?
Is a girl considered legally married after she reconciles with her husband during the 'iddah period without her family's knowledge, and is it permissible for her to move in with the husband despite her father's refusal?
Is it permissible for me to take back my wife after I divorced her three times, and the judge confirmed my divorce to her, and made me understand that she is irrevocably divorced from me with a major separation (baynunah kubra)?
Does divorce occur after a husband utters it, subsequent to his wife lightly hitting him?