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Ya Rajul! The right of divorce is a trust in your hands, so don't abuse it by divorcing your wife the instant she requests you to!

3 August 2022 • 3.2K views
Ya Rajul! The right of divorce is a trust in your hands, so don't abuse it by divorcing your wife the instant she requests you to!
A brother narrated to me: “I helped a bother get married to a sister some months back. The marriage was going well to start off with, but after some time they gradually started arguing. During some of these arguments, the sister would request the brother to divorce her, and he would comply with her request and divorce her. He said this happened three times, i.e. He had divorced her three times. But both are now regretful for what had happened and they love each other and want to remain together...what's the Religious ruling (Hukm) in this case?” This is a very common case, perhaps you've come across similar accounts. Here is some advice from Sheikh Abu Musa 'Abdullah Hableel concerning this matter: https://youtu.be/4zBVoGgD1eA As for as the religious ruling is concerned, then scholars such as Ibn Baz and others have categorised anger into three types: 1. Extreme rage where a person is no longer conscious of what he is saying or doing. A person in this case is considered to be temporarily insane, so his divorce does not count according to all scholars. 2. Intense anger where a person is conscious of what is going on, but his anger is so intense that it makes him utter the words of divorce without wanting to or meaning it. This is where the scholars differed, and according to Sheikh Ibn Baz, in this case too, divorce does not take place. 3. Mild anger where the person is conscious of what is going on and wants to divorce and means it. In this case, divorce takes place according to all the scholars. Source: https://binbaz.org.sa/fatwas/7153/%D9%87%D9%84-%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%B9-%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B6%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86