What is the ruling on the divorce of an angry man with light anger?
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Question:
There is a man who divorced his wife in light anger, and he claimed that the divorce did not take place, citing what Imam Ahmad narrated:Sunan Ibn Majah 2046Hasan (Darussalam)?
Answer:
"Iqlaag" means intense anger, or coercion, or intoxication. As for light anger, it is not called coercion, nor is it called "iqlaag." That is, his intention is blocked by the intensity of anger, or by coercion through beating or the like, or by the loss of reason through intoxication or the like. This is what "iqlaag" is.
As for the one who issues a fatwa for himself that slight anger is called "iqlaag," this is an error. Most people divorce in anger, and the divorce takes place.
And anger has three categories:
Anger that causes the loss of reason; this does not take place according to all scholars if his reason is lost.
The second type of anger: the anger intensifies, and he cannot control himself due to cursing, quarreling, and fighting. Its causes are clear. In this, there is disagreement among scholars, and the stronger view is that it does not take place, because of this hadith and what came in its meaning.
The third type of anger: ordinary anger that does not cause the loss of reason, and there is no intensity that prevents him from understanding the divorce and refraining from it. In this case, the divorce takes place according to all scholars.
There is a man who divorced his wife in light anger, and he claimed that the divorce did not take place, citing what Imam Ahmad narrated:
There is no divorce and no manumission at the time of coercion.
لا طلاقَ ولا عتاقَ في إغلاقٍAnswer:
"Iqlaag" means intense anger, or coercion, or intoxication. As for light anger, it is not called coercion, nor is it called "iqlaag." That is, his intention is blocked by the intensity of anger, or by coercion through beating or the like, or by the loss of reason through intoxication or the like. This is what "iqlaag" is.
As for the one who issues a fatwa for himself that slight anger is called "iqlaag," this is an error. Most people divorce in anger, and the divorce takes place.
And anger has three categories:
Anger that causes the loss of reason; this does not take place according to all scholars if his reason is lost.
The second type of anger: the anger intensifies, and he cannot control himself due to cursing, quarreling, and fighting. Its causes are clear. In this, there is disagreement among scholars, and the stronger view is that it does not take place, because of this hadith and what came in its meaning.
The third type of anger: ordinary anger that does not cause the loss of reason, and there is no intensity that prevents him from understanding the divorce and refraining from it. In this case, the divorce takes place according to all scholars.
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