The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad

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The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 524

Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 524 ii. Ṭalāq : Where the desire of separation or submission for divorce is made by the husband. iii. Khula‘ : Where the desire of separation or submission for divorce is made by the wife. 1 In all the above-mentioned cases, Islām has prescribed different procedures. 3. The state of Fasakh-e-Nikāḥ comes about when it becomes unlawful to further continue a marriage. For example, if a girl exercises her right of Khiyārul-Bulūgh , 2 which has been elaborated upon to some extent above. Similarly, if a husband becomes firmly convinced of the illicit relations of his wife but is unable to prove it according to the Sharī‘at , Islām commands that both the husband and wife take a firm oath against one another calling down the punishment of God upon themselves if they are liars. After this, they shall be separated. This is referred to as Li‘ān in Islāmic terminology. 3 4. In the case of Ṭalāq , Islām instructs that when such circumstances arise between husband and wife where the husband becomes inclined to seek a separation from his wife, before he gives 1 * Mishkātul-Maṣābīḥ, Kitābun-Nikāḥ, Bābul-Khula’i Waṭ-Ṭalāq, Al-Faṣlul-Awwal, Ḥadīth No. 3274, Volume 1, p. 600, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2003) * Mishkātul-Maṣābīḥ, Kitābun-Nikāḥ, Bābul-Khula’i Waṭ-Ṭalāq, Al-Faṣluth-Thānī, Ḥadīth No. 3280, Volume 1, p. 601, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2003) * Mishkātul-Maṣābīḥ, Kitābun-Nikāḥ, Bābul-Li‘ān, Al-Faṣlul-Awwal, Ḥadīth No. 3304, Volume 1, p. 606, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2003) * Zādul-Ma‘ādi Fī Hadyi Khairil-‘Ibād, By Shamsuddīn Abū ‘Abdillāh Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr (Ibni Qayyim Al-Jauziyyah), pp. 812-813, Ḥukmu Rasūlillāhi sa Fil-Khula‘, Mu’assisatur-Risālah, Beirut, Lebanon (2006) * Zādul-Ma‘ādi Fī Hadyi Khairil-‘Ibād, By Shamsuddīn Abū ‘Abdillāh Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr (Ibni Qayyim Al-Jauziyyah), p. 845, Ḥukmu Rasūlillāhi sa Bi Annaṭ-Ṭalāq Bi Yadiz-Zauji Lā Bi Yadi Ghairihī, Mu’assisatur-Risālah, Beirut, Lebanon (2006) * Zādul-Ma‘ādi Fī Hadyi Khairil-‘Ibād, By Shamsuddīn Abū ‘Abdillāh Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr (Ibni Qayyim Al-Jauziyyah), pp. 874-876, Ḥukmu Rasūlillāhi sa Fil-Li‘ān, Mu’assisatur-Risālah, Beirut, Lebanon (2006) 2 * Bidāyatul-Mujtahidi Wa Nihāyatul-Muqtaṣid, By Abul-Walīd Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad (Ibni Rushd), Al-Bābuth-Thānī Fī Mūjibāti Siḥḥatin-Nikāḥ, p. 440, Fārān Academy Lahore * Zādul-Ma‘ādi Fī Hadyi Khairil-‘Ibād, By Shamsuddīn Abū ‘Abdillāh Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr (Ibni Qayyim Al-Jauziyyah), pp. 775-776, Dhikru Aqḍiyatihī Wa Aḥkāmihī sa Fin-Nikāḥ. . . . . , Faṣlun Fī Ḥukmihī sa Fith-Thayyibi Wal-Bikri Yuzawwijuhumā Abūhumā, Mu’assisatur-Risālah, Beirut, Lebanon (2006) 3 * An-Nūr (24:5-11) * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābuṭ-Ṭalāq, Bābut-Tafrīqi Bainal-Mutalā‘inīn, Ḥadīth No. 5313