The pronouncement of divorce on a pregnant wife whose pregnancy was unknown
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Question:
If you please, Abd al-Nasser, turn the television down a bit; it is disturbing us. No, that’s fine, that’s fine. Go ahead, Abd al-Nasser. I am asking the Honorable Shaykh: if a man divorces his wife while she is pregnant, and he did not know she was pregnant—meaning he divorced her and then discovered afterward that she was pregnant—thank you. Does the divorce of a pregnant woman take effect, Shaykh Salih?
Answer:
Yes, yes. It is better that it be the divorce of a pregnant woman, because she is not in menstruation, and she is not in a state of purity in which he had intercourse with her. So her divorce takes effect. Yes.
If you please, Abd al-Nasser, turn the television down a bit; it is disturbing us. No, that’s fine, that’s fine. Go ahead, Abd al-Nasser. I am asking the Honorable Shaykh: if a man divorces his wife while she is pregnant, and he did not know she was pregnant—meaning he divorced her and then discovered afterward that she was pregnant—thank you. Does the divorce of a pregnant woman take effect, Shaykh Salih?
Answer:
Yes, yes. It is better that it be the divorce of a pregnant woman, because she is not in menstruation, and she is not in a state of purity in which he had intercourse with her. So her divorce takes effect. Yes.
Source
قناة «مكة و المدينة»، 03 فتاوى على الهواء - 03 02 1433هـ _ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (31:50)
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