Ruling on Divorce in Extreme Anger
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Question:
This is a message from the sender (H. A.) from Oman, Jordan. He says: I have a wife, and I quarreled with her, and a disagreement occurred. I became extremely angry. I am a man of a nervous temperament, easily provoked, and I cannot tolerate problems. As a solution to this problem, I said to my wife and spoke the words: "O so-and-so, you are divorced," and another time, "you are divorced." I am in a state of confusion regarding my situation, because every time she disobeys me, I utter these words. They have come from me several times, perhaps more than three times. What is the ruling of Islam in this matter?
Answer:
If the divorce occurred in extreme anger, meaning: it closed off his intent and feeling, and he did not control himself, and he was unable to restrain himself from the divorce due to the intensity of the anger, and the intensity of the dispute and the hurtful words from the wife, then the divorce does not take place according to the correct opinion. The scholars differed on this, but the correct opinion is that the divorce does not take place in extreme anger.
And anger is of three types:
Anger that removes feeling, and its owner is like a madman; no feeling remains in him. This divorce does not take place according to all scholars.
The second type of anger: the anger intensifies due to a long dispute, or hurtful words from the wife or others, until he cannot control himself, and until he is unable to overcome his nerves. Rather, he utters the divorce like one who is coerced, like one who is pushed. This divorce does not take place.
The third situation: that it is ordinary anger, not with intensity, but ordinary anger. In this case, the divorce takes place according to everyone.
So the questioner knows himself best. This questioner knows himself best. If the anger intensified in him greatly, until he was unable to restrain himself from it, rather the anger distressed him and pushed him with a strong push, until he spoke without choice because of her hurtful words, or her cursing him, or her cursing him or his parents, or her describing him with ugly descriptions that provoked him until the anger intensified in him, then in this situation his divorce does not take place. But in ordinary anger, where a person gets angry as is customary because of words that do not fit, or actions that do not fit, then the divorce takes place in this according to the scholars. Yes.
This is a message from the sender (H. A.) from Oman, Jordan. He says: I have a wife, and I quarreled with her, and a disagreement occurred. I became extremely angry. I am a man of a nervous temperament, easily provoked, and I cannot tolerate problems. As a solution to this problem, I said to my wife and spoke the words: "O so-and-so, you are divorced," and another time, "you are divorced." I am in a state of confusion regarding my situation, because every time she disobeys me, I utter these words. They have come from me several times, perhaps more than three times. What is the ruling of Islam in this matter?
Answer:
If the divorce occurred in extreme anger, meaning: it closed off his intent and feeling, and he did not control himself, and he was unable to restrain himself from the divorce due to the intensity of the anger, and the intensity of the dispute and the hurtful words from the wife, then the divorce does not take place according to the correct opinion. The scholars differed on this, but the correct opinion is that the divorce does not take place in extreme anger.
And anger is of three types:
Anger that removes feeling, and its owner is like a madman; no feeling remains in him. This divorce does not take place according to all scholars.
The second type of anger: the anger intensifies due to a long dispute, or hurtful words from the wife or others, until he cannot control himself, and until he is unable to overcome his nerves. Rather, he utters the divorce like one who is coerced, like one who is pushed. This divorce does not take place.
The third situation: that it is ordinary anger, not with intensity, but ordinary anger. In this case, the divorce takes place according to everyone.
So the questioner knows himself best. This questioner knows himself best. If the anger intensified in him greatly, until he was unable to restrain himself from it, rather the anger distressed him and pushed him with a strong push, until he spoke without choice because of her hurtful words, or her cursing him, or her cursing him or his parents, or her describing him with ugly descriptions that provoked him until the anger intensified in him, then in this situation his divorce does not take place. But in ordinary anger, where a person gets angry as is customary because of words that do not fit, or actions that do not fit, then the divorce takes place in this according to the scholars. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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