Al-Sayyid Al-Allamah Al-Hujjah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah Awad al-Mu’ayyidi May Allah preserve him

Question: A man afflicted with diabetes, hypertension, and an enlarged heart divorced his wife—first, then second, then third. Is there any solution to this, bearing in mind that were we not to “break the hazelnut’s shell,” he would kill whichever...

Question: A man said to his wife, “If you leave the house, I will break your leg—or you are divorced,” giving a choice between breaking her leg or divorce. What is the ruling?

Question: In some regions one hears phrases like: “Do not enter so-and-so’s house; and if you enter, then your entering is your divorce,” and like: “If I do not sell such-and-such by Thursday, then it is your divorce.” What is...

Question: A man says to his wife: “It is your divorce if you do such-and-such,” and then she does it. What is the ruling? This question came from al-Jawf.

Question: If a man prevents his daughter from returning to her husband, a dispute arises between the husband and the father, and matters culminate in divorce—while the wife was pregnant and then gave birth—does the wife, in this case, deserve...

Question: A young man would often swear by divorce, saying: “It is ḥarām and divorce from my wife that I did (such-and-such) / or that I did not do it,” while he was lying. He did that out of carelessness...

Question: An ignorant man frequently divorces his wife verbally, yet he does not want to divorce her; and she pays no heed to his words of divorce, knowing her husband’s habit of not intending divorce. Later, after receiving guidance and...

Question: An ignorant man wished to divorce his wife and took with him another man to the wife’s family. When they arrived, the companion coached his friend to pronounce the divorce, saying: “Say: she is divorced,” so he said, “She...

Question: A sterile man strongly desires a child. He went to a physician, who took some semen from another man and injected it into the sterile man’s testicle. He then said: “Go and have intercourse with your wife.” The man...

Artificial insemination is the placing of a man’s sperm in a woman’s womb in pursuit of offspring. They have tried that either through the woman’s husband: the physician takes semen from a man and places it in the urethra of...