Divorce and Separation
1,425 questions
What is the ruling on a wife taking some of her husband's personal belongings in exchange for her waiver of her legitimate rights after their separation, and why did he accuse her of defaming him by talking about the reasons for her request for divorce?
What are the duties to avoid oppressing the first wife? Is she entitled to request future overnight stays despite the lack of affection? Is the second wife entitled to request a separation if the husband spends the night with the first wife? Is this marriage considered disobedience to parents due to their rejection of it for the children's welfare?
What is the ruling regarding a wife remaining with a husband who prevents her from attending Islamic events, threatens her with divorce when she seeks justice, prefers one of his other wives over her in spending his time, burdens her with all household chores, and prevents her from telling anyone what is happening?
Is a wife entitled to seek divorce from her husband who accuses her of killing their daughter, curses and slanders her, wishes death upon her other children, and suffers from a psychological illness that makes him want to harm her?
Is a divorce effected or is an expiation incumbent upon one who said to his wife: "Divorce on me if I drive the car," and then he drove the car, knowing that his only intention was not to drive it?
What is the ruling regarding a man's statement to his wife: "If you search my phone, you are divorced," and what are the implications of that?
Does a divorce pronounced by someone who then forgot the exact wording he uttered, and does not know whether that wording constitutes a divorce or not, actually take effect?
Is the intention underlying the words of innuendo—uttered out of ignorance that divorce would result from them—considered a definitive intention of divorce that dissolves the marital bond?
Are these utterances considered one divorce or three, and what are the implications regarding the wife's ability to return?
Are the two phrases: (Your Lord spreads out for you of His mercy) and (O Allah, replace her with someone better for me, and replace me with someone better for her) a euphemism for divorce?
What is the ruling regarding the inheritance of a woman whom her husband divorced verbally and told his son to inform her, but he did not, and then the husband died years later while she was unaware of the divorce?
What is the ruling regarding a husband saying to his wife: "Enough" (khalas), perhaps followed by "I am tired of this" or "I am done with these things," with the possibility of him having an intention of separation, two and a half years after the incident, and without his prior knowledge of allusive divorce (طلاق الكناية) or its rulings?
What is the ruling regarding a man swearing to his new wife that he has no wife but her, while intending divorce by that oath?
Is a wife's leaving her husband's home without his permission, due to his repeated physical abuse of her and their children, and the police threatening to withdraw custody of the children from them if the problems recur, truly forbidden? And what is the optimal solution to this problem?
What is the Sharia ruling regarding a wife remaining with her husband who is afflicted with an infectious disease, and is it permissible for her to seek a divorce to ward off harm from herself and her children?
Does a divorce take effect if the husband says to his wife: "If you leave the house, you are divorced," and she actually leaves the house, and is she entitled to claim her dower (mahr) in this case?
Does a triple divorce take effect on the wife if the husband says, "My wife is thrice divorced if she said this to your wife," intending whether she said it with the aim of causing a separation between them?
What is the ruling on a husband saying to his wife: "Your bed is forbidden to me," with the intention of deterring her?
ما حكم قول المرأة لزوجها أنا لست زوجتك؟
Is it permissible for a woman who has previously intended to divorce her current husband in order to return to her first husband, whom she loves, to ask him for a divorce, knowing that she has not disclosed this intention to her current husband? And does her unhappiness with him justify her seeking a separation?
Does the Hadith, "Any woman who asks her husband for divorce without any [just] cause, the scent of Paradise will be forbidden to her," include a wife before consummation if she insists on divorce without justification and the husband does not agree? And how does a woman repent and restore the rights to her children and ex-husband after the divorce has occurred due to her strong insistence without justification?
What should a husband do after discovering his wife's emotional and physical betrayal with another young man, and her conspiring with the young man's family to divorce him and marry him, especially given that the wife's family accuses him of oppressing her?
Is there no contradiction between the obligation to divorce a Muslim woman who does not pray and the permissibility of marrying a Kitabiyah (People of the Book) who does not pray?
Does a divorce issued in the form: "I swear by triple divorce that if I do not bring my wife at the specified time, even if you hold a wedding party, I will divorce her" take effect?