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Is one divorce pronounced nine times considered valid in Islam?

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I need your help and guidance in clarifying a divorce matter. My friend’s husband pronounced her 9 times on phone that ‘I DIVORCE YOU’. After saying her, he called her father, mother, sister and brother separately and repeated the statement that ‘I HAVE GIVEN DIVORCE TO YOUR DAUGHTER/SISTER, SHE IS FREE FROM ME, TAKE HER AWAY FROM MY HOME. Now girl’s family says that it is full-fledged divorce and the marriage is over and boy’s family is of the view that boy has said this in anger just by mistake and it should be counted as one divorce. Can you please explain according to Islam whether it is one divorce or marriage is over?

Answer

(Fatwa: 295/198/D=1433)

If the husband admits or there is Shariah evidence that the husband has said ‘I divorce you’ three or more times, then three mughallazah talaqs took place on his wife and their relation of nikah came to an end completely. A divorced woman can marry anywhere other than her said husband after passing the iddah period. Talaq takes place in the state of anger, likewise if uttered in mistake. Thus in the question mentioned above, the three talaqs took place. Those who say only one talaq took place they are wrong, they are against the holy Quran, hadith and Fiqh.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

This answer was collected from the official ifta website of Darul Uloom Deoband in India.

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