Written Talaaq

Issuing talaaqs from a fake Facebook account

Q: If Ahmed, with a different name, opened a Facebook account and wrote to a scholar of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) from this account, saying, 'I have divorced my wife with triple talaq, what should I do now? How can I take her back?' (when he hasn't actually divorced her, but is in doubt and told the situation as if it happened just to learn what to do if he were to do it), what is the meaning of the quoted text in this context?

Husband sending text messages to his wife: "Go, I release you" and "I have no claim on you; you can live your own life."

Q: My husband said to me in a text message: "Go, I release you" and "I have no claim on you; you can live your own life." 

Does this count as a valid divorce (talaaq) according to Islamic law? I want to know if these words constitute a clear divorce or not. 

Husband wanting to reconcile after sending divorce notices to his wife

Q: My maid has a situation. Her husband hit her and forced her out of the house two years ago. Then, two months ago, he sent her two divorce notices at the same and one notice saying that she is of bad character and he wants custody of the children. Now, five days ago he sent a third divorce notice. 

He signed the first two notices but didn't sign the third one. He said he did it because he wanted her to feel threatened and come back herself. 

After sending all three notices with the last one sent five days ago, now he wants to get back together. 

Is their Nikah still valid, or are they completely divorced now?

Husband being forced to sign a talaaq document

Q: My husband's parents forced him to sign a divorce paper. They prepared it by themselves and he doesn't know how many has been written. He didn't have any intention for this. Is it valid? 

They threatened him that his mother will kill herself while his wife put a pistol on her daughter. He did not know how many times divorce was written because he didn't prepare and read the papers, nor was he willing to sign.

Writing out three talaaqs in the state of duress

Q: Mufti Saheb, I was forced by my family to divorce my wife by writing on a page and signing that I am giving her three talaaqs. My family threatened to beat me up if I did not comply. Hence, I was forced to write the following: “I, so and so, am giving my wife three talaaqs.” Are the three talaaqs which I wrote valid or is my wife still in my nikaah?  I did not verbally issue the three talaaqs.

Wife receiving a divorce letter with a forged signature

Q: I received a divorce letter four months ago in which my husband's signature is mentioned. Now my husband is saying that he did not sign those papers. He lives abroad so he asked his father to process the divorce and his father sent me that letter with his fake signature and sent that divorce letter to me. Now he is saying that our divorce did not take place. Can you please guide me if my divorce happened or not?

Written talaaq

Q: Me and my husband were newly weds. Due to pressure and anxiety building up between both our families, my husband was made to write talaq thrice on a paper and this was then sent to me through his brother. My husband did not have the intention to divorce me thrice nor was he aware of writing this thrice would do. We both are now willing to reconcile, and I am still in my iddah period. Can you please advice and guide us as to how we can go back to living as husband and wife.