Advice for the Married Regarding Divorce and an Explanation of the Innovated Form of Divorce
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The questioner:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, this person asks, saying: May Allah bless you. Or he says: Please direct a word to these young men who get married, and after a month or two, bad disagreement arises between them, even if it is minor, and they announce their divorce.
The Shaykh:
Divorce is only resorted to in cases of dire necessity or pressing need if harmony is not achieved between the spouses. If they separate, Allah will provide for each of them from His abundance. If reconciliation and repair between the spouses become impossible, then separation brings relief to both. However, if things are going well and smoothly, then divorce is not resorted to because there is no need for it. In the hadith,Sunan Ibn Majah 2018Sahih (Darussalam), so divorce is not to be done except when there is a need. It is a medicine used when needed. As for the one who marries and divorces, and marries and divorces, this is called al-mudhaqqiq, and this is blameworthy and not permissible. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Does the word for divorce have multiple forms?
The Shaykh:
Divorce, the word for divorce and its derivatives: "I have divorced you," "You are divorced," "The divorce is upon you," and the like. Yes.
The questioner:
He asks: When is divorce considered an innovation (bid'ah) or in accordance with the Sunnah?
The Shaykh:
Divorce is considered an innovation (bid'ah) if it is done at a time of innovation, such as during menstruation or post-natal bleeding, or during a period of purity in which he had intercourse with her. He should not divorce her at these times. This is an innovation (bid'ah) in timing and an innovation (bid'ah) in number, if he divorces her three times with a single word. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Your Excellency the Shaykh, this person asks, saying: May Allah bless you. Or he says: Please direct a word to these young men who get married, and after a month or two, bad disagreement arises between them, even if it is minor, and they announce their divorce.
The Shaykh:
Divorce is only resorted to in cases of dire necessity or pressing need if harmony is not achieved between the spouses. If they separate, Allah will provide for each of them from His abundance. If reconciliation and repair between the spouses become impossible, then separation brings relief to both. However, if things are going well and smoothly, then divorce is not resorted to because there is no need for it. In the hadith,
The most hated of permissible things to Allah is divorce.
أبغض الحلال إلى الله الطلاقThe questioner:
May Allah reward you. Does the word for divorce have multiple forms?
The Shaykh:
Divorce, the word for divorce and its derivatives: "I have divorced you," "You are divorced," "The divorce is upon you," and the like. Yes.
The questioner:
He asks: When is divorce considered an innovation (bid'ah) or in accordance with the Sunnah?
The Shaykh:
Divorce is considered an innovation (bid'ah) if it is done at a time of innovation, such as during menstruation or post-natal bleeding, or during a period of purity in which he had intercourse with her. He should not divorce her at these times. This is an innovation (bid'ah) in timing and an innovation (bid'ah) in number, if he divorces her three times with a single word. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «مؤسسة الدعوة الخيرية»، فتاوى على الهواء 28-10-1434هـ - الفوزان — youtube.com (31:29)
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