Thursday, 22 August 2019

The Third Divorce


In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful


230. Fa-in tallaqaha fala tahillu lahu min baAAdu hatta tankiha zawjan ghayrahu fa-in tallaqaha fala junaha AAalayhima an yatarajaAAa in thanna an yuqeema hudooda Allahi watilka hudoodu Allahi yubayyinuha liqawmin yaAAlamoona

2:230. If he then divorces her 439, he shall thereafter have no right to conjugal relationship with her until she marries another man. Then if that other man divorces her, there is no sin upon the two to return to each other if both think that they should be able to remain within parameters laid down by Allah. And He does explain those parameters, for knowledgeable people.440

439. This obviously is with reference to the preceding Verse 229 wherein mention is made of a wife divorced twice by the same husband but retained as his wife after each of the two divorces. Now this Verse 230 deals with a situation wherein the husband divorces the wife for the third time.
440. The parameters, laws or the restrictions/limits laid down by Allah for proper conduct of either one of a married couple with the other, are duly explained in the Qur'aan. We have already seen, in Verse 228, that both husband and wife have their respective rights as they have their respective obligations. The other parameters are laid down in various other Verses – in Verse 4:19, for example – throughout the Qur'aan. Allah expects that people study the Qur'aan regularly to become knowledgeable and to imbibe those parameters.

Kindly also go through, in this context, my earlier post What Is Attalaaq.
Mohammad Shafi
Friday, the 23rd of August 2019.

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