Q: I am in U.S. on a visit visa. I got a girl to marry on contract but I am married in my country. In U.S. you can marry one lady at a time so I have to give one sided talaak to my first wife. It's just for paper work. In real I don't want to give my first wife talaak. Is it permissible in Islam because through this I will get permanent residency in the U.S.
Q: My husband and I live apart since 2013. He used to come and see me often. He gave me one divorce in 2012 but then we went back together. He gave me another divorce in November 2014 but this time over the phone. When he gave it to me we still stayed in contact due to some paper work issues but he didn't ask me to come back to him neither he came to see me or take me back. I want to know if I am divorced as its been almost 6 months now.
Q: When a couple get divorced in anger and say its final but then for two reasons want to reconcile, can they? Firstly, they feel they did this in anger and secondly she discovers she is pregnant. Can they reconcile?
Q: If a man is being forced by gun to give 3 talaqs, I have understood from your fatwas that the talaqs will take place even though he was forced. But may the man instead act on the Shafie opinion that talaqs do not take place? Since otherwise his life will be destroyed - his wife will be haram on him, his children will grow up with divorced parents, his wife will have difficulty supporting herself etc. I know that we should generally not act on views of another madhabs, but may the man make an exception is this case (even though he would be Hanafi) since this is such a delicate situation which will affect his whole life?
Q: My question is about divorce. Me and my wife had a fight about 8 months ago and she was continuously asking for divorce at that very moment. We were both very angry. I told her ok I give you divorce and included both my and her name when I said it. Then she asked me to move out. I moved out of the house next day and have lived away from her ever since. During the last 8 months we have spoken so many times and we have been wanting to get back together. But we had fights also over the last 8 months. So my question is when I told her that I divorce you but moved out of the house next day and didn't spend 3 months with her under the same roof, is the divorce valid or not? Also when I said it we were both in anger and fighting.
Q: I'm a young 27 year old divorced mother of 4 daughters. Last year December I got remarried to my second husband. He is 24 year old never married and of purity a virgin, he was with me for a week, a week after he left we fought and I landed in ICU for pseudo seizures due to depression and a week after that he divorced me while I was in ICU. I was admitted for shock, depression and post traumatic stress disorder. We had debates because his parents disapproved of him wanting to marry a gal with 4 kids, we debated his coming back and standing up for himself and his wife, which is me. I explained that one shouldn't be nasty to ones parents, but explain in a nice way, because there is no valid reason of disapproval, and nikaah had already taken place, now what I wanted to know is if how talaq was done is right or wrong? It was done over watsapp all were done for no valid reasons, like when I asked to leave me alone in hospital, I was just crying and crying, he gave a 2nd talaaq for that over watsapp. Is it a proper way to give talaaq or not?
Q: I would like to know I signed an ante nuptial contract prior to me making Nikaah, a month later we made nikaah and a further month later we registered our marriage (South African Legal Marriage). I am married for two years now. I have now come to know I made an error in the ante nuptial contract and for it to be corrected, we would have to "legally" divorce in terms of South African Law, then enter into a new Ante nuptial contract, and then re register our marriage. Both my spouse and I do not want to get divorced islamically, If we do get a "legal" or "civil" divorce will this affect our nikaah? We can do the default divorce whereby the wife initiates divorces, the husband receives the summons (he has ten 10 to defend, if he does not defend, the divorce will be given by default by the SA courts). I am asking this as it is important to me to ensure my ante nuptial contract is in order. This is affecting my mental ability to think and do my work, as it is always on my mind.
Q: Can a woman give a talaaq?
Q: I follow the shafi'i madhhab. In a state of having a jinn in me and my hubby being intoxicated, I asked him for talaaq, he gave me two, does this count according to my madhhab? He follows the hanafi madhhab. Does two talaaq count as three because we were living normal!
Q: My husband said I talaaq you, he did not mean it and did not know the severity of this statement while not meaning it, he has apologised for saying
it and he has revoked it. However does this count as a Talaak being issued as he did not know understand by saying this will mean something as it was not his intention. Shafi Mathaab