The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 527
XI - Treachery of the Banū Quraiẓah and the End of the Jews in Madīnah, Laws of Marriage and Divorce 527 husband, and the husband is not prepared to give her a separation, she can attain a separation through a judge. 1 A judge has been assigned the responsibility that if a woman actually desires a divorce, and she is not being lured into deceit or mischief, then he should order a separation and not be overly intrusive as to whether the woman’s desire for a separation is appropriate and preferable or not. 2 According to this principle, if a woman finds it unbearable to accept the second marriage of her husband, she can demand a Khula‘ merely on these grounds. 3 9. If a husband has given his wife a certain amount of wealth or property in addition to her daily expenses, and he demands the return of these valuables, in the case of Khula‘ , the court can order the return of these assets to a reasonable extent. 4 10. In the cases of Fasakh-e-Nikāḥ , Ṭalāq and Khula‘ , where husband and wife are separated after having come together, the wife is not permitted to marry again until a fixed period has elapsed since the separation. Generally, this period is equivalent to about three months, or if the wife is pregnant, then until she delivers. In the terminology of Sharī‘at , this period is referred to as an ‘Iddat. 5 This is an outline of the law of marriage and divorce as instituted 1 * Al-Baqarah (2:230-231) * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābun-Nikāḥ, Bābul-Khula‘ * Mishkātul-Maṣābīḥ, Bābul-Khula‘ Wa Bābul-Waliyyi Fin-Nikāḥ, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2003) * Bidāyatul-Mujtahidi Wa Nihāyatul-Muqtaṣid, By Abul-Walīd Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad (Ibni Rushd), Kitābuṭ-Ṭalāq, Al-Bābuth-Thālithu Fil-Khula‘i, Al-Faṣluth-Thānī Fī Shurūṭi Wuqū‘ihī, Al-Qismuth-Thānī, p. 492, Fārān Academy Lahore * Zādul-Ma‘ādi Fī Hadyi Khairil-‘Ibād, By Shamsuddīn Abū ‘Abdillāh Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr (Ibni Qayyim Al-Jauziyyah), pp. 812-813, Ḥukmu Rasūlillāhi Fil-Khula‘i. . . . . , Mu’assisatur-Risālah, Beirut, Lebanon (2006) 2 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābuṭ-Ṭalāq, Bābul-Khula‘i Wa Kaifaṭ-Ṭalāqu Fīhi, Ḥadīth No. 5273 * Sunanu Abī Dāwūd, Kitābuṭ-Ṭalāq, Bābu Fil-Khula‘, Ḥadīth No. 2227 3 * Chashma-e-Ma‘rifat, Rūḥānī Khazā’in, Volume 23, p. 247 * Kishtī-e-Nūḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā’in, Volume 19, p. 81 4 * Al-Baqarah (2:230-) * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābuṭ-Ṭalāq, Bābul-Khula‘i Wa Kaifaṭ-Ṭalāqu Fīhi, Ḥadīth No. 5273 * Mishkātul-Maṣābīḥ, Bābun-Nikāḥ, Bābul-Khula‘i Waṭ-Ṭalāq, Al-Faṣlul-Awwal, Ḥadīth No. 3274, Volume 1, p. 600, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 5 * Al-Baqarah (2:229) * Al-Aḥzāb (33:50) * Aṭ-Ṭalāq (65:7-8)