Threatening one's wife with a report to the police to demand divorce and its effect
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Sometimes my wife threatens me and says, "Divorce me, or I will tell the police that you do such and such." I am afraid she will report me for this violation. He asks: If I divorce her, am I considered coerced, such that the divorce would not take effect?
Answer:
By Allah, this is a matter where, if something like this happens to you, you must go to the judge, or you must go to the Department of Ifta, or you must not rush into the divorce and issue a ruling on it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Sometimes my wife threatens me and says, "Divorce me, or I will tell the police that you do such and such." I am afraid she will report me for this violation. He asks: If I divorce her, am I considered coerced, such that the divorce would not take effect?
Answer:
By Allah, this is a matter where, if something like this happens to you, you must go to the judge, or you must go to the Department of Ifta, or you must not rush into the divorce and issue a ruling on it. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل في الجواب عما احتج به أهل الوسواس — islamhouse.com (58:57)
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