The ruling on one who pronounces divorce while in a state of extreme anger
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Question:
This is a question from the listener: Ibrahim Ahmad Shawish from Sudan. He says: I am a married man, and a dispute arose between me and my wife, which angered me to the utmost, to the point that I was unaware of what I was doing. So I said to her: “You are divorced.” She said to me: “Bear witness, so-and-so, from those present.” I said: “Bear witness to ten divorces.” But the people around me, after I had calmed down, told me that I had said to her: “You are divorced” ten times. I ask you to inform me: does the divorce take effect in this case or not?
Knowing that, as I mentioned, I was in the height of my anger at that time.
Answer:
As mentioned earlier, if he was in the height of his anger, the divorce does not take effect, if there were causes that necessitated extreme anger until he was like a madman, like one devoid of sensation. If the anger intensified in him and the matter became great for him until he could not control himself, and was unable to master himself or subdue it, because of her bad quarreling with him and her speech against him, such as cursing, taunting, and the like, then the divorce does not take effect according to the most correct of the scholars’ opinions. Its ruling is the ruling of the divorce of a madman or an insane person. Yes.
We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
This is a question from the listener: Ibrahim Ahmad Shawish from Sudan. He says: I am a married man, and a dispute arose between me and my wife, which angered me to the utmost, to the point that I was unaware of what I was doing. So I said to her: “You are divorced.” She said to me: “Bear witness, so-and-so, from those present.” I said: “Bear witness to ten divorces.” But the people around me, after I had calmed down, told me that I had said to her: “You are divorced” ten times. I ask you to inform me: does the divorce take effect in this case or not?
Knowing that, as I mentioned, I was in the height of my anger at that time.
Answer:
As mentioned earlier, if he was in the height of his anger, the divorce does not take effect, if there were causes that necessitated extreme anger until he was like a madman, like one devoid of sensation. If the anger intensified in him and the matter became great for him until he could not control himself, and was unable to master himself or subdue it, because of her bad quarreling with him and her speech against him, such as cursing, taunting, and the like, then the divorce does not take effect according to the most correct of the scholars’ opinions. Its ruling is the ruling of the divorce of a madman or an insane person. Yes.
We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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