Fatwas Archive

Question: It happens that when a husband divorces his wife, he immediately revokes her, then divorces her, then revokes her and divorces her—his intent or the intent of the intermediary being to prevent the divorcer from being able to take...

Question: Regarding a layman who divorces his wife with three successive pronouncements, without an intervening revocation, believing that to have taken effect?

Question: If a layman who does not understand taqlīd and adherence pronounces an innovated divorce while believing it binding and valid, then later it becomes clear to him that there are scholars who give fatwa that it does not take...

Question: If a man divorces his wife with an innovated (bidʿī) divorce while, at the time, he believes it takes effect—being unaware that it is bidʿī and forbidden—and this man is a beginner in seeking knowledge and, in general, a...

Question about divorce during menstruation and post-partum bleeding: does it take effect or not?

Question: A man married a woman, and after three or four years insanity occurred to the husband. His family took him for treatment, and the wife hoped for his recovery; with treatment his insanity would lessen. His family took him...

Question: A man’s wife entered upon him and compelled him to divorce her. This man is a commoner; he divorced her while not wanting to divorce, believing that the divorce he pronounced was valid. What is the ruling?

Question: What is the least degree of insanity such that, if it occurs in a person, the ruling of divorce and the like is lifted from him?

Question: A man consumed some narcotic pills and his intellect was altered; he divorced his wife in that state, and this was the third pronouncement. Does that divorce take effect or not?

Question: A man divorced his wife and, outwardly, he appeared free of insanity; then afterward insanity appeared in him. We feared that the divorce may have occurred at the onset of the illness, and doubt arose for us concerning the...