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Ambiguous & Written Talaq
284 fatawa from 6 South African Darul Iftas on Ambiguous & Written Talaq, part of Divorce & Iddah. Newest first; every fatwa links to the page where its Darul Ifta published it.
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Ambiguous & Written Talaq fatawa — page 6 of 8
- Ask Imaam5 Nov 2014
Nikah by text message
I used to talk to a boy but realized afterwards that I should'nt. However, i am very depressed now. I strongly repent and is in the state of…
Mohammed Patel - Ask Imaam4 Nov 2014
My husband issued me 3 divorces through an sms without any reason and denies it. Is this divorce valid?
My marriage is not consummated but I had some privacy with my husband on phone.the privacy was partly sexual and partly general. One day I received…
Ismail Desai - Mufti Online28 Oct 2014
Telling the wife "If you use Whatsapp, you are divorced"
One person said to his wife not to use whatsapp otherwise she is divorced (he meant for messages). After a few days, the wife touched the screen of…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online21 Oct 2014
Does talaaq take place through saying "I do not have a wife"
Please help me. Once one of my friend's said "Do you have a wife? and I said "I don't have a wife, we have gone our separate ways" (meaning I left…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online1 Oct 2014
Telling one's wife "Leave my house and go to your father's house"
I told my wife to leave my house and go to her fathers house. Do you take that as a talak. It's been a week and my father inlaw does not want my…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online29 Sep 2014
Husband telling the wife to leave
I am a 20 year old girl. I got married last year December. Recently my husband and I have been having some problems. He has told me to leave twice…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online29 Sep 2014
Husband telling the wife "then stay here for good"
I was at my parents home for a meal function and there where guests there. My husband started swearing at me and said I must come home with him…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online18 Sep 2014
Husband telling the wife "Tum azaad ho jo karna hai karo"
I have many times said I am freeing you. Tum azaad ho jo karna hai karo but never had any intention of divorcing my wife. I just said these words in…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online4 Sep 2014
Ambiguous words of talaaq
I have read all the questions and answers on this website relating to talaak and Fasakh and the common factor is Intention. My question is, the…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Ask Imaam2 Sep 2014
Was the Nikah valid through a text message?
Few years back, i used to talk to a boy. On text messages, one day he asked me "do you accept nikah with _____ (his name or nick name) ? I said yes,…
Fahad Abdul Wahab - Ask Imaam30 Aug 2014
Is divorce over a text message valid?
Last year in July they sent a proposal and it was totally an arranged marriage, they were distant relatives and the rishta was confirmed in…
Arshad Ali - Ask Imaam20 Aug 2014
Nikah through text message
A nikah on text messages is valid or not if: 1) there are witnesses? 2) there are no witnesses? Also after doing text nikkah, informing it to a…
Hisham Dawood - Mufti Online14 Jun 2014
Written divorce
Two days ago I went to a lawyer and told him the details of dispute between me and my wife. After listening, he advised me to make a divorce deed. I…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Ask Imaam14 May 2014
Is nikaah allowed on Whatsapp?
If a man asks a woman, "will you marry me" over whatsapp and two people saw the message at a later time upon looking at the womans phone, does this…
Muhammad Haris Siddiqui - Mufti Online17 Apr 2014
Issuing a divorce via a text message
I was made to marry as soon as I turned 18 and even though I refused my family still went ahead with it. I tried my level best to make something I…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online17 Apr 2014
Writing out talaaq without the intention of divorce
My husband is from another country. He married me here as a second wife. When he returned to his country his first wife got angry and demanded that…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online17 Apr 2014
Talaaq-e-baain
What is talaq-e-baain? What are that unlear words of talaq and if man says that such as from now "I don't want to keep any kind of relation with…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online13 Apr 2014
Husband telling the wife "well then go!"
If a husband and wife are having an argument and the husband tells the wife something like, "well then go!" But he doesn't say something like to…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online13 Apr 2014
Talaaq via sms
I am a Palestinian Muslim living in Norway. I have a problem. I sent my wife an sms message to divorce her. The message clearly says that I divorced…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online9 Apr 2014
Husband telling the wife "You are faarigh from me"
I want to ask you about divorce in Islam. My husband said once "today if u go to work, you are faarigh from me". I want to ask if with farigh word…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online24 Mar 2014
Husband saying "meri taraf se farigh samjho"
If somebody says non intentionally in urdu to his wife that " meri taraf se farigh samjho"?
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online15 Feb 2014
Husband telling the wife "go and don't come back"
I had to go buy stock for the company I work for and I was scared to tell my husband this because he would badger me about doing things for the…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online2 Feb 2014
Saying to one's wife "I give you one"
I am married and I had a argument with my wife. Whilst arguing one thing I said to her whilst in anger was “I will give you divorce” My intention…
Mufti Zakaria Motala - Mufti Online1 Feb 2014
Husband telling the wife "Tumhe azadi ho jo chaho dekho"
One day in a fight my wife on her freedom to watch any program on Television, she said she will watch anything on Television irrespective of my…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online21 Jan 2014
Sending a letter of divorce via post
I am an Indian and my wife had filed a dowry case against me without any reason and based on that I had to give her talaq in writing back dated…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online18 Jan 2014
Telling one's wife "go" in an argument
I suffer from wasaawis, but not on a major level, just mildly. I was arguing with my wife and she kicked me. After this I said go. My intent was if…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online4 Jan 2014
Husband messaging the wife that it is over between me and you
I need advice and guidance please. If my husband told me its over between me and him over a message, is it counted as a talaaq?
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online17 Dec 2013
Ambiguous statements of talaaq
I still don't understand about ambiguous statements. I know that wanting a divorce is not the same as issuing a divorce, so how come if a husband…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Ask Imaam11 Dec 2013
Husband gave 3 Talaq through sms message without any witnesses. Does this constitutes as 3 Talaq?
My question on the validity of my divorce. my husband wrote a message via internet, ms, * I divorce you, I divorce you, I (his name) divorce ( my…
Immad Bin Arshad - Ask Imaam18 Nov 2013
Talaq written three times.
I was married to my husband for 8 months and we had a few arguments and family problems. Later on I asked him for divorce and three weeks later I…
Mufti Saeed Ahmed Golaub - Mufti Online6 Nov 2013
Husband saying "It's over" intending talaaq
I am in need of some advice. My husband and I are having quite a lot misunderstandings and always arguing etc. Last night he sent me a message…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online3 Nov 2013
Husband saying "Pack up and leave" intending talaaq
My husband and I are having quite a lot of misunderstandings and always arguing etc. Last night he sent me a message saying its over and I must pack…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online1 Oct 2013
Does signing legal divorce documents constitute talaaq
I am a married woman. I was involved with a married man when I was still staying with my husband. I committed zina with him. Me and my husband are…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Ask Imaam27 Sep 2013
Threatening one’s wife with a written Talāq.
I had a fight with my wife on the telephone and by text messaging and she was asking me to divorce her but I was not willing to do this, she was…
Khalil Johnson - Mufti Online24 Sep 2013
Husband threatening to write out talaaq
Would these words affect our nikkah in urdu language"zara tehro main tumhain likh ker deta hoon ke talaaq deta hoon" means in English "hold on I…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online24 Sep 2013
Husband telling the wife to leave the home and never come back
If the husband tells his wife after 2 years of their marriage that he doesn't love her he doesn't feel anything for her anymore after every little…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online10 Sep 2013
Husband saying "Tum Azaad ho"
If a couple are having a discussion on the fone on various issues including divorce then the husband says "you are free to do anything" by which he…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online3 Sep 2013
Saying "I do not want anything to do with you"
I married a women who had become Muslim from Hinduism some months earlier. She knew I was married Islamically to another person and knew the family.…
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee - Mufti Online27 Aug 2013
Written Talaaq
A father of the husband while separated from his wife wrote a divorce letter which the husband signed and gave it to a third party.Some time later…
Mufti Zakaria Makada - Mufti Online24 Aug 2013
Divorce via email
My son and his wife lived together abroad. She got a baby but unfortunately died before birth. On the advice of a doctor, she came back to Pakistan…
Mufti Zakaria Makada
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