Divorce and Separation
1,425 questions
What is your advice to a married woman who suffers from her husband's continuous mistreatment, including insults, curses, and beatings, and sometimes cursing Allah Almighty, knowing that she has four children with whom she lives in one room, and her financially well-off husband refuses to build them a house, and she fears divorce due to destitution and her inability to support her children?
What is the ruling on retracting an oath of "By divorce, you will not open Facebook again," and what is the expiation for that?
What are the wife's rights in an irrevocable divorce, what is the estimation of the consolation gift (mut'ah), what is the ruling on the list of furnishings, including the kitchen I brought and the gold that was sold two years ago, and what is the amount of the daughter's maintenance and the deferred dower?
Is the husband required to divorce his wife who has apostatized from Islam, and is it forbidden for the first wife to remain with him if he does not divorce her?
Does a divorce count if the husband swore by divorce that his wife should not go to the wedding, but she went only to greet a sick woman with the intention of not attending the wedding?
Is the husband's threat to divorce his wife—should she speak to another man—considered an actual divorce if the husband did not intend it?
Is Khul' valid if the husband says to his wife: "Because you asked me for it, I grant you Khul'," with the husband asking the wife to pay $40 to a mosque due to her financial inability, and can the couple reconcile after this Khul', and what is the ruling on the husband's intention in Khul'? And what is the ruling on a man divorcing his wife a day or two after intercourse?
Is the husband's statement to his wife, "Insha'Allah, I will not divorce you," considered a conditional divorce dependent on the will of Allah, such that the divorce occurs if the husband deems it desirable to divorce her?
Can a couple reunite after having been divorced three times, knowing that the first divorce was an innovated divorce (bid‘i) (during a period of purity in which intercourse occurred)?
Does a judge's divorce take effect? And does Khul' (divorce at the wife's instance) count as a pronouncement of divorce?
Is a man who loved a girl and she married someone else sinful if he supplicates to God to unite him with her lawfully, by her leaving her husband to marry him, without him seeking to cause separation between them? And what if he asked her to divorce her husband, who abuses her, and what would be the consequences for them if she agreed?
What is the ruling on a husband who promised his wife that he would emigrate with her to America, but then did not fulfill his promise, and rarely spends on her, and rarely communicates with her?
Are these two phrases considered implicit divorce statements: "There are twenty million women other than you" and "May Allah grant prosperity"?
Is it permissible for a father to divorce the mother or for them to officially separate so that he can pay off his debt through the government?
Does the marriage of the custodial mother annul her right to custody, according to Sharia and the law?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding a man divorcing his wife in two cases: first, his saying to her before consummation, "If you go out with your mother, you are divorced," while he was angry; and second, his saying to her after consummation, "You are divorced by three and forbidden to me until the Day of Judgment," while he was angry and during a period of purity in which he had intercourse with her?
Is it permissible for a wife to seek divorce despite the recency of her marriage and her pregnancy, due to her husband's physical abuse, insult, failure to provide for her, and refusal to allow her to go to the mosque, all because she rejected his marriage to an American Muslim woman?
Does a husband's statement to his wife, "I can divorce you if I get the money," constitute a threat of divorce in Islam, and must he fulfill this promise if he obtains the money, or is the door to reconciliation still open given that this statement was made under difficult circumstances?
Have I committed a sin or something unlawful by loving another person and meeting him during my separation from my husband and two weeks before my divorce from him, especially since I fear opposition to our future marriage due to the circumstances in which our relationship began?
Why does Islam stipulate that a divorced woman must marry another man before her former husband can marry her again?
Is the waiting period (iddah) counted for a woman whose husband took her to her family without pronouncing a divorce, saying, "We will see the situation with my mother," and then communication ceased between them?
What is the religious ruling regarding the divorce I issued to my wife after a dispute between us, given that I repeated the utterance on more than one occasion, and then took her back and had intercourse with her? And what should I do after my wife confessed to me that she had a previous relationship with another person before our marriage, given that she had denied it previously?
What should I do about my husband's denial of the third divorce, and his refusal to financially support me after he said to me "You are divorced" in front of people, knowing that he was married عرفياً (orally/informally) before this divorce?
What is the ruling on someone who said to his wife: "If I do this, my wife is threefold divorced," intending thereby to strongly commit himself not to do the matter, and does the divorce take place if he does that, and how many divorces take place, and what are the rulings resulting from them?