{"id":7095,"date":"2013-10-05T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2013-10-05T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:17:09","slug":"does-divorce-occur-if-the-husband-wants-to-give-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/does-divorce-occur-if-the-husband-wants-to-give-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Does divorce occur if the husband wants to give divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 01425<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by&nbsp;<\/strong>Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Question:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">salam. I would like to know if I am divorced. My husband and I have been separated for the last 10 months, only being married 1 year. I tried to sort our difference but I found that his family would interfere in our problems. He has declared in front of witness that he wants to give me talak 3 times in one sitting. Am I divorced?&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<strong style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.6em;\">Answer:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bismillah\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6518 alignnone\" height=\"50\" src=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"267\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">There are three ways for a marriage to break or separation to occur:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">One utters the words of divorce or talaq verbally. It is mentioned in Durrul Mukhtar:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&ldquo;The main part (rukn) of divorce is the specific statement.&rdquo; (Raddul Muhtar p.426 v.4)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Giving talaq through means of the written word also effects separation. Imam Kasani <img title=\"ra\u1e25imahull\u0101h (may All\u0101h have mercy upon him)\" alt=\"ra\u1e25imahull\u0101h (may All\u0101h have mercy upon him)\" class=\"islamic_graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/islamic-graphics\/img\/black\/20\/rahimahu.png\" height=\"12px\"> states:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;Similarly, issuing a divorce verbally is not a condition. Hence, divorce will be effected with clear and unambiguous writing, or with the understood gesture (isharah) of a dumb person, because the clear written word is in place of verbal utterance&rdquo;. (Bada&rsquo;i al-Sana&rsquo;I p.100 v.3)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Sometimes if a husband is not fulfilling his rights, the wife can initiate a separation through an Islamic Shariah Concil.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Regarding your question, you said that your husband &ldquo;wants to give you three divorces&rdquo;. The key word here is <strong>&ldquo;<\/strong><strong>wants to give&rdquo;.<\/strong> This denotes future tense. The Islamic ruling regarding divorce being uttered in the future tense is that divorce <strong>does not occur<\/strong>. They are merely a promise or a warning and promises and warnings do not effect talaq. (Badaaius Sanaai p.210 v.2)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The conclusion we can come to from the aforementioned question is that you are not divorced at this moment in time. However, if your husband goes ahead with his intention of giving you three divorces then three divorces will occur.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Only Allah Knows Best<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 01425 Answered by&nbsp;Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah Question: salam. I would like to know if I am divorced. 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