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Can a husband be forced to divorced by father-inl-law in unaviodable circumtances, where he has not option but to divorce his wife? circumtances can exterme in which there may be a danger to anyone’s life. Is such forceful divorce valid ?

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My Questions are regarding Divorce in certain circumtances,

1) I have heard circumtances are to be considered before any rulings or judgements. is it true ?

2) Can a husband be forced to divorced by father-inl-law in unaviodable circumtances, where he has not option but to divorce his wife? circumtances can exterme in which there may be a danger to anyone’s life. Is such forceful divorce valid ?

3) Is the divorce valid when it is not given some mental stress condition where a person is not knowing what he is doing ?

4) If the procedure of divorce is carried through lawyer ( non-muslim) and he says to divorce is by signing the papers and then saying the ” I divorce you” 3 times , does this makes the divorce irrevocable . Please take into consideration that husband does not want to may his wife haraam but the Judge is telling him to act in this way ? what is your opinion on this ?

Please do answers this questions and do not delete it as you have done before. I hope you are here to for welfare and wellbeing of muslims . You can email me the answers instead if you don’t want to post it.

Jazakallah khair.

Answer

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalaamu `alaykum waRahmatullahi Wabarakatoh

1.  Your query is not clear.  Kindly elaborate.

2.  If someone is forced in giving talaq, the talaq will valid.

Dur al-Mukhtar with Shami (1:235) H.M. Saeed Company

Fatawa al-Hindiya (1:353) Maktaba Rasheediya

– (ويقع طلاق كل زوج بالغ عاقل) ولو تقديرا بدائع ، ليدخل السكران (ولو عبدا أو مكرها) فإن طلاقه صحيح لا إقراره بالطلاق (در المختار)

– (فصل فيمن يقع طلاقه وفيمن لا يقع طلاقه) يقع طلاق كل زوج إذا كان بالغا عاقلا سواء كان حرا أو عبدا طائعا أو مكرها كذا في الجوهرة النيرة

3.  Please refer to the previous answer from our institute regarding this topic.  It has been reproduced hereunder from your convenience.

Fatwa # 15068

The issue of extreme anger leading to temporary insanity has been discussed by the scholars in the past. Hereunder is the ruling:

Anger is categorized into 3 stages:

  1. The person in anger is in total control of his state of affairs and knows what he is doing and saying. Talaq given in such a state is valid.
  1. Anger leads the person to temporary insanity and the mental thinking is distorted. Talaq is invalid in such a state.
  1. One that is between the above mentioned two stages. i.e. one is not in total control of his state of affairs, but does not reach the stage of insanity. There is a difference of opinion on talaq given in this state, but the most correct opinion is that talaq will be valid. Raddul Muhtar Vol:3 Pg:244 (H.M. Saeed Company)

قلت : وللحافظ ابن القيم الحنبلي رسالة في طلاق الغضبان قال فيها : إنه على ثلاثة أقسام : أحدها أن يحصل له مبادئ الغضب بحيث لا يتغير عقله ويعلم ما يقول ويقصده ، وهذا لا إشكال فيه . والثاني أن يبلغ النهاية فلا يعلم ما يقول ولا يريده ، فهذا لا ريب أنه لا ينفذ شيء من أقواله . الثالث من توسط بين المرتبتين بحيث لم يصر كالمجنون فهذا محل النظر ، والأدلة على عدم نفوذ أقواله .ا هـ . ملخصا من شرح الغاية الحنبلية ، لكن أشار في الغاية إلى مخالفته في الثالث حيث قال : ويقع الطلاق من غضب خلافا لابن القيم ا هـ وهذا الموافق عندنا لما مر في المدهوش
 

It is understood from the above mentioned that talaq given in anger will not be valid only when the person has reached insanity. Therefore, the reason for talaq not being valid is insanity and not anger.

Moreover, the issue of talaq is a very delicate one; so it will not be appropriate to make a general statement that talaq given in extreme anger is invalid. However, if it is proven by a reliable source that the person did reach the status of insanity, then the Islamic scholars can analyze the situation and render the talaq invalid.

(Answered by Ml Jawed Iqbal. Checked and Approved by Mufti Ebrahim Desai)

4.  We have studied your above mentioned queries and understand that this query is a follow up of the previous queries.  Since there are circumstances involved, we wish to withhold our verdict until further explanation.  For such issues a personal meeting is necessary.  We advice you to arrange a meeting with the Ulama of your locality and discuss the issue.

And Allah knows best

Wassalam

Ml. Ehzaz Ajmeri,
Student Darul Iftaa

Checked and Approved by:

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
Darul Iftaa, Madrassah In’aamiyyah

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