Discussion of the issue of the marriage of tahleel and its ruling.

The Shaykh : I said: This is an example, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not mention it as a specific limit, but rather as an illustration of some of the rulings that some people follow to circumvent the rulings of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). For example, many shaykhs, even to this day, continue to issue fatwas regarding what is known among jurists as the marriage of tahleel, despite the saying of the Messenger (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him): How do they consider this marriage permissible when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) has cursed the one who performs the tahleel and the one for whom it is performed? They say: The conditions of the marriage, which are the pillars of the marriage, are fulfilled. The husband, who is the one performing the tahleel here, is willing; the one for whom the tahleel is performed, who is the divorcing husband, is willing; and the divorced woman is also willing to this entire formal process. Then they do not look at the fact that the purpose of this is to hasten what Allah has forbidden, namely returning to her first husband, as stated in the well-known noble verse: This husband who performs the tahleel for the first divorcing husband is not a husband in the Shari'ah, but some people call him a husband. As for our Messenger...